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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 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 noapascualama 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.> >> >Name, 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) Karen Burn> >36) Alexander Brown, Port Kembla, NSW, Australia> >37) Eliza Barwick, Sydney, Australia> >38) Bob Barwick, Brisbane, Australia> >39) Jill McCann, Brisbane, Australia> >40) Jill Innes, Brisbane, Australia> >41) Darrell Innes, Brisbane, Australia> >42) Rebecca Innes, Brisbane, Australia> >43) Fiona Dalton, Brisbane, Australia> >44) Lorraine Chan, Brisbane, Australia> >45) Greg Lloyd, Gold Coast, Australia> >46) Rita Kugler, Brisbane, Australia> >47) Fiona Brown, Brisbane, Australia> >48) Shaun Brown, Brisbane, Australia> >49) Tanya Growcott, Melbourne, Australia> >50) Jonathon Hull, Melbourne, Australia> >51) Tina Beck, Melbourne, Australia> >52) David Beck, Melbourne Australia> >53) Scott Redmond, Perth Australia> 54) Pixie Bebeklis, Perth, Australia> 55) Levin Shome, Auckland, New Zealand.

56) colin sky godfrey, auckland, new zealand.