I have received this from a nice couple who used to live in my MHP and moved to Alaska. I think this is really important for everyone no matter where you live. helen s


From: Suzanne Osborn [email protected]
Subject: re: More raping of the land
Date: July 20, 2006 11:12:40 AM ADT
To: [email protected]

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
[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 SanFelix
Valleyand 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)Belle Paterson, Leeds, UK
12) Claire Jenkins, Leeds, UK
13) Carlos Ch?vez, Leeds, UK
14)? Anita Howard, Leeds, UK
15) Tertia Montgomery, London, UK
16) Karen Boyle, Leeds, UK
17) Andrea Hamblett, Leeds, UK
18) Samantha Hemingway, Gibraltar
19) Debbie Neiman, Brighton, Uk
20) Bob Poplett Brisbane Australia
21) Michael Berry, Brisbane Australia
22) Christie Cole, Dublin, Ireland
23) Melinda Rekdahl, Brisbane, Australia
24) Sarah Forder, Brisbane, Australia
25) Carolyn Forder, Brisbane, Australia
26) Todd Owen, Nelson, New Zealand
27) Dominic Szeker, Dunedin, New Zealand
28) Aleeza Stettner, Auckland, New Zealand
29)Elanor, Te Rapuora, Aotearoa
30)Julie, Te Rapuora, Aotearoa
31)Tristan Lockerbie, Aotearoa , New Zealand
32)Jonathon Acorn,Auckland,New Zealand
33)Christine Small, Ruby Bay, Nelson , New Zealand
34) Jaqui Barrett, Auckland, New Zealand
35) Marion
Bridge, Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
36) Pam & Rod Scholey, Arundel, UK
37) Linda Savage, Bognor
38) Alison Mobbs Portsmouth, UK
39) Emily Terry, Bognor Regis , UK
40) Dharma Gaynes, Glen Rose, Texas
41) Colin & Bridget Dunn, Sheffield, UK
42 Angela Nellis Scarborough UK
43) Claire Suscens, London, UK
44) Peter Woodcraft, London, UK
45) Dianna Cheong, London, UK
46) Beatrice De Alba, Los Angeles, CA, USA
47) Douglas Spain, Los Angeles, USA
48) Tony Miguel, Los Angeles, USA
49) Lela Edgar, Los Angeles, USA
50] Barry Leneman. Topanga, CA USA
51) Sherry Simpson-Dean, Pasadena CA USA
52) Laila Hussain, Los Angeles CA USA
53) Carole Barber, Encino CA, USA
54) Nancy Hammerman, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
55) Lisa Gold, Long Beach, CA, USA
56) Jamie Wainer, Glendale, CA, USA

57) Beverly Curtis, Gresham, OR, USA
58) Jan and Joanne Everts, Albany, OR, USA
59) Victoria Brown, Corbett, OR, USA
60)Elias Reyes, Portland, OR USA
61) Tatiana Isotov-Reyes, Portland, OR, USA
62) Maria Isotov-Chang, Haiku, Hawaii, USA
63) Suzanne Osborn, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA


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