>> >Dear friends who care about our earth!
>
>QUERIDOS AMIGOS QUE SE PREOCUPAN POR EL PLANETA TIERRA!!! lean esto por
>favor…
>
>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
>> >noapascualama@yahoo.ca 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
>
> POR FAVOR , ayuda a evitar que contaminen el planeta, copia este
>mensaje y pon tu firma, tu
> ciudad
>
> y tu país y envíaselo a todos tus amigos, la persona #100 en frimar
>éste mensaje, deberá enviarlo a
> noapascualama@yahoo.ca para ser enviado al gobierno chileno para
evitar >ésta
> catástrofe..GRACIAS
