This is a real project which will go ahead if we don’t unite against it.
Outrageously unbeleivable……

In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in
Chile runs from 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.

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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 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.