Hey Andrew and all; Probably better to go here;
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/946839131?ltl=1148474564 If you want to take action on this (and I hope you do) Joe Andrew Netherton wrote: > 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 > andother 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 Sr. > > 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. > > 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 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, U.K. >> >>21) Barry Cook, Todmorden, U.K. >> >>22) Shelley Burgoyne, Todmorden, U.K. >> >>23) Lisa Stuart, Potes, Spain. >> >>24) Michael Stuart, Potes, Spain. >> >>25) Renee Engl, Byron Bay, Australia >> >>26) Adrian Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia >> >>27) Riana Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia >> >>28) Oriel Paterson, Brunswick Heads, Australia >> >>29) Alicia Paterson, Brisbane, Australia >> >>30) Lyneve Robinson, Sydney, Australia >> >>31) Jennifer Moalem, Sydney, Australia >> >>32) Alexandra Pope, Sydney Australia >> >>33) Shushann Movsessian, Sydney Australia >> >>34) Amanda Frost >> >>35) Chris Liddell, AUS >> >>36) Jade Deegan, AUS >> >>37) Jo Satori, AUS >> >>38) Jennie Gorman, Vic AUS >> >>39) Angelique Queensley, Victoria, Can >> >>40)Chrystyanna Queensley, Victoria, Can >> >>41) Dawna Masters, San Miguel De Allende, Mex. >> >>42) John Gillespie, Canada >>43) Ross Andersen, Canada >> >>44) Devaki Thomas >> >>45) Andrew Riley Mott, Victoria, Canada >>46) Ari Cipes, Kelowna, Canada >> >>47) Ezra Cipes, Kelowna BC, Canada >> >>48) Michael Coutt, Oaxaca City, Mexico > > > 49) Molly Thurston, Canada > > 50) Cecelia McMorrow, Lindsay, Canada > > 51) Marlene Callaghan, Reaboro, Ontario, Canada > > 52) Steve Callaghan, Reaboro, Ontario, Canada > > 53) Ruth Abernethy, Wellesley, Ontario Canada > > 54) Mark Smyth Wellesley, Ontario, Canada > > 55) Andrew Netherton, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
