As you may know I will use any affilitation and community to speak out against wrong - absolute wrong. And this is one. Take time to post a personal email - you would at least do so for a pair of melodia's. thanks, P.

This email which is circulating true information that
is critical, is no longer functional in that it was
started in March 2005 and the Chilean Gov't is no
longer taking the petitions. HOWEVER, the reality that
the Barrick Corp is attempting to do it and downplay
of course any environmental consequences is
despairingly real. You can still do something about
it.

DO GO THIS LINK TO MAKE AN ACTIVE VOICE AND PROTEST TO THIS TRAVESTY. I'M SO SICK OF THIS TYPE OF THING
HAPPENING AGAIN AND AGAIN - WHEN WILL WE GREEDY HUMANS EVER LEARN?????? Can I ever wear gold/buy gold without contributing to this kind of thing, nor the continued enslavement of thousands in mining projects in Africa and Asia and South America?

www.snopes.com/politics/b...cualama.asp
www.miningwatch.ca/index.php

Subject: Chilean Glaciers
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:25:45 -0400

Dear friends:

In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile
runs from 2
rivers, fed by 2 glaciers. 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
sulfuric 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@yahoo.caailto: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.

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