Valle de San Felix, Chile

[Im going home Donny]

edit to add...an error in the process of this petition was pointed out.

If you're interested in signing a petition on this matter your best bet would be to go to the cavern, find the same topic and scroll down to Karin Annies link.

Seems pretty solid.

Thanks Phorbs and thanks K.A.

DEAR FRIENDS WHO CARE ABOUT OUR EARTH!

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 specially 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 gramme 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 noapascualama@yahoo.ca to

be forwarded to the Chilean government.

Note* it looks like there are a few signatures missing near the beginning of

THIS copy of the petition .... therefore only send it to the above address

if you are the 118th person to sign.*

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, style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Manchester, UK

5) Tanya Corker, Manchester, UK

6) Claire Colvine, size=2>Madrid, Spain

12) Michelle Campbell, Vancouver, Canada

13) Lynn Irving, Arial">UK

23) Kirsteen Ruffell, London UK

24) Virginnia Nuutinen, Sydney, Australia

25) Donna Alderson, Sydney, Australia

26) Mal Buchanan, Auckland, NZ

27) Shianne Buchanan, Auckland, NZ

28) Chris Hay, Auckland NZ

29) Kathryn Thomas, Auckland NZ

30) Shiree Lambert, Auckland, NZ

31) father James Robson,Vancouver,Canada

32) Luigi Cianni, Vancouver, Canada 33) Cathy Silvera, Delta, B.C.

34) Rev. Julie Montague, Maple Falls, WA

35) Dawn Muncaster

36) Alice Taylor, BC Canada

37) Sharon Alder, Victoria, B.C.,Canada

38) Maggie Tchir, Nelson, BC Canada

39) Kiara Lynch, Nelson, BC, Canada

40) Julia Barsellotti, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Edited May 26, 2006 by Guest