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Dear friends who care about our earth. Judge for
yourself if you want to take action.

In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in
Chileruns 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 whosemembers 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.

This is no joke,
Please read an update:
http://www.tierramerica.net/2005/0618/iarticulo.shtml



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

21) Barry Cook, Todmorden

22) Shelley BUrgoyne, Todmorden

23) Libby Ray, Shipley, England

24) Anne Meynell, Bradford, England

25) Jim Meynell, Bradford, England

26) Alec Knibbs, Kings Lynn, England

27) Suzanne Bailey, Valencia, Spain

28) Agnieszka Legierska, London, England

29) Rosanna Bennett-Moncrieff, Bristol England

30) Kirsten Bennett-Moncrieff, Bristol, England

31) Stephen Haley, Silsoe, England< BR>
32) Rob Smith, Bristol, England

33) Basil Anderson, Bristol, England

34) Jonathan Coles, Bristol England

35) Deborah Weinreb, Bristol England

36) Lucie Pemberton, Bristol, England

37) Joanna Kate Benson, Bristol, England

38) Aimee Hirt, California, USA

39)Deniz Oktay, New York, USA

40) Jeni Fujita, New York, USA

41) Carla Gomez, Georgia USA

42) Patricia Knight, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

43) Alyssa C. Fredericks, St. Croix, USVI

44) Yulette George, St. Croix, USVI

45) ChenziRa Kahina, St. Croix USVI

46) Carl Christopher, St. Croix USVI

47) Anubi Kahina, St. Croix USVI

48) Tehjrah Alvarez, New York USA

49) Robin Callahan, Moodus, CT USA

50) Joyce Bellis, East Haven, CT USA

51) Elaine Betoncourt, East Hartford CT USA

52) Kathy Meyering, Middletown, CT USA

53) Sue VanDerzee, Durham, CT USA

54) Janet C. Johnson, Concord, MA USA

55) Dale C. Nelson, Bloomington, IN USA

56) Cynthia D. Nelson, Bloomington, IN USA

57) Kathy Kraft, Bainbridge Island, WA USA

58) Nancy Kennedy, San Francisco, CA USA

59) Ryan Kennedy, San Francisco, CA USA

60) Maria Luisa Dangond, San Francisco, CA, USA
61) damien saul,suffolk,england

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." G.B. SHAW