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 >This is not a hoax email - check it out through google if you like!
 >
 >examples:
 > http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/104/Pascua_Lama_Background
 > http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press878.htm
 >
 >
 >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.
 >
 >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.
 >
 >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 at 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.
 >
 >Name, 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) Karen Burn
 >36) Alexander Brown, Port Kembla, NSW, Australia
 >37) Eliza Barwick, Sydney, Australia
 >38) Bob Barwick, Brisbane, Australia
 >39) Jill McCann, Brisbane, Australia
 >40) Jill Innes, Brisbane, Australia
 >41) Darrell Innes, Brisbane, Australia
 >42) Rebecca Innes, Brisbane, Australia
 >43) Fiona Dalton, Brisbane, Australia
 >44) Lorraine Chan, Brisbane, Australia
 >45) Greg Lloyd, Gold Coast, Australia
 >46) Rita Kugler, Brisbane, Australia
 >47) Fiona Brown, Brisbane, Australia
 >48) Shaun Brown, Brisbane, Australia
 >49) Tanya Growcott, Melbourne, Australia
 >50) Jonathon Hull, Melbourne, Australia
 >51) Tina Beck, Melbourne, Australia
 >52) David Beck, Melbourne Australia
 >53) Scott Redmond, Perth Australia
     54) Pixie Bebeklis, Perth, Australia