in_spirit Posted May 23, 2006 (edited) Thought I would share an email I received today with all of you ..... it really didn't surprise me but I have seen alot when it comes to people.. Dear all, A couple of minutes of your time to read & reply. Ta 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascua_Lama http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/104/P...Lama_Background 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] <mailto:[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 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) Laurel Sutherland, London England 40) Elliot Naftalin, London, UK 41) Jody Levitus, Barcelona, Spain 42) Alex Barker 43) Stuart Pettican, London, England 44) Christophe Priddle, Sydney, Australia 45) Sebastien Priddle, Sydney Australia 46) Nathan Waring, Sydney, Australia 47) Paul Waring, Adelaide South Australia 48) Colleen Waring, South Australia 49) Mark Sutti, Canberra, Australia 50) Angus Wood, Sydney, Australia 51) Eugenie Spiteri, Sydney, Australia 52) Sonia Mathews, NSW, Australia 53)John Mathews, NSW, Australia This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Edited May 23, 2006 by evil Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torsten Posted May 23, 2006 hmmm, this is an interesting topic, but a bit of formatting and editing might make it more appealing for people to read. c'mon, don't be so lazy. it's for a good cause. alternatively just post the link to the wikipedia article which says it all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
