Thread: Action for Chile - HELP!

Please copy and paste this into a new email, add your namem you spouse's and kid's names then send it to your contacts. Thanks - Callum.

Subject: action for Chile

Dear friends who care about our earth and people.

Judge for yourself if you want to take action.

In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile runs from 2 rivers, fed
by 2 glaciers. Water is a most precious resource, and wars will be fought
for it.

Indigenous farmers use the water, there is no unemployment, and they provide
the second largest source of income for the area.

Under the glaciers has been found a huge deposit of gold, silver and other
minerals. To get at these, it would be necessary to break, to destroy the
glaciers - something never conceived of in the history of the world - and to
make 2 huge holes, each as big as a whole mountain, one for extraction and
one for the mine's rubbish tip.

The project is called PASCUA LAMA. The company is called Barrick Gold.

The operation is planned by a multi-national company, one of whose members
is George Bush Senior.

The Chilean Government has approved the project to start this year, 2006.

The only reason it hasn't started yet is because the farmers have got a
temporary stay of execution.

If they destroy the glaciers, they will not just destroy the source of
especially pure water, but they will permanently contaminate the 2 rivers so
they will never again be fit for human or animal consumption because of the
use of cyanide and sulphuric acid in the extraction process.

Every last gram of gold will go abroad to the multinational company and not
one will be left with the people whose land it is. They will only be left
with the poisoned water and the resulting illnesses.

The farmers have been fighting a long time for their land, but have been
forbidden to make a TV appeal by a ban from the Ministry of the Interior.

Their only hope now of putting brakes on this project is to get help from
international justice.

The world must know what is happening in Chile. The only place to start
changing the world is from here.

We ask you to circulate this message amongst your friends in the following
way.

Please copy this text, paste it into a new email adding your signature and
send it to everyone in your address book. Please, will the 100th person to
receive and sign the petition, send it to [email protected] <> to be
forwarded to the Chilean Government.

No to Pascua Lama Open-cast mine in the Andean Cordillera on the
Chilean-Argentine frontier.

We ask the Chilean Government not to authorize the Pascua Lama project to
protect the whole of 3 glaciers, the purity of the water of the San Felix
Valley and El Transito, the quality of the agricultural land of the region
of Atacama, the quality of life of the Diaguita people and of the whole
population of the region.


Signature, City, Country

1) Katharine Proudfoot, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

2) Laura Cole, London, UK

3) David Platt, London, UK

4) Diane Platt, Manchester, UK

5) Tanya Corker, Manchester, UK

6) Nicola Hargreaves, UK

7) Nicholas Jones, UK

8) Johann Don-Daniel, Germany

9) Ashley Berger, Germany

10) Sarah Downie, Leeds, UK

11) Paula Delahunty, Bingley, UK

12) John O'Driscoll, Bingley, Uk

13) Jordan-Lee Delahunty, Bingley, UK

14) Claire Mulvey, Bradford, UK

15) Marie Malcolm Bradford, UK

16) Ann Clowes, Halifax UK

17) Jayne McGee, Brighouse UK

18) Jason Barratt Oldham UK

19) Lindsay Torrance, Rochdale UK

20) Maggie Ford, Rochdale, U.K.

21) Barry Cook, Todmorden, U.K.

22) Shelley Burgoyne, Todmorden, U.K.

23) Lisa Stuart, Potes, Spain.

24) Michael Stuart, Potes, Spain.

25) Renee Engl, Byron Bay, Australia

26) Adrian Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia

27) Riana Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia

28) Oriel Paterson, Brunswick Heads, Australia

29) Alicia Paterson, Brisbane, Australia

30) Lyneve Robinson, Sydney, Australia

31) Jennifer Moalem, Sydney, Australia

32) Alexandra Pope, Sydney Australia

33) Shushann Movsessian, Sydney Australia

34) Amanda Frost

35) Jacqueline Simpson, Sydney Australia

36) Bev MacInnes, Sydney Australia

37) Annie Fox, Adelaide, Australia

38) April Jenkins, Adelaide Australia

39) Denise Curnow

40) Pat Jarrett

41] LIz Weepers South Australia

42) Robyne Greer Adelaide, Australia

43) Vashti Wallace Adelaide Australia

44) Alec Thompson, Adelaide, Australia

45) Val Burgoyne, Adelaide, Australia

46) Nathan Chesterfield Adelaide Australia

47) Yiota Chesterfield Adelaide Australia

48) Sarah Burchell Brighton UK

49) Dominic Burchell Brighton, UK

50)Emma Radinovic, Adelaide, Australia

51)Sam Kelly, London,UK


52) Nina Sherman, London UK


53) Gina Healy Surrey UK


54) Cathy Pugh, Surrey, UK.


55) Catherine Goodridge UK


56) Bob Mills. UK.

57) Brett Heppolette, Bolton, UK

58) John Smith, Manchester, UK

59) Elaine & Martin Bowker, Manchester, UK

60) Paula Lambe, Knutsford, UK

61) Will Smith, Cheadle, UK

62) ...

I would be glad to sign a petition but where do you go to sigh one.