Excuse cross posting, but this is important!

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From: Norma Cole <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:13:08 -0700
To: Norma Cole <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: very important campaign

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 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
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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

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

32) Rob Smith, Bristol, England

33) Basil Anderson, Bristol, England


34) Jonathan Coles, Bristol England

35) Deborah Weinreb, Bristol England

36) Rachel Pearcey

37) Stephanie Greenwood

38) Caryne Chapman Clark, London England

39) Norma Cole, San Francisco USA


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