HELP TO THE EARTH

I recieved this from a friend of ours(our "adopted" grandaughter) I have passed it on. Please do the same................PEACE.............Scott


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Dear friends who care about the earth.

Judge for yourself if you want to take action. In the Valle de San

Felix, the purest water in Chile runs from two rivers, fed by two

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 two 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 two

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 fibghting 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 e-mail,
adding your signature, and send it to everyone in your address book.

Please will every hundredth person to receive and sign the petition
send it noapascualama@yahoo.ca to be forwarded to the Chilean
Government.

1- John Fraser, Stonehaven, U.K.
2- Maggie Fraser, Stonehaven, U.K.
3- Kathryn Regan, Sedgefield, UK
4- Emma Adamson, Fence Houses, UK
5- Blakeburn, Greenwich, UK
6- Janna Goodwille, Greenwich, UK
7- Bea Ross-Lowe, London, UK
8.-James Freund, Battersea, UK
9- Nina Freund, Brighton, UK
10- Lorna Hicks, Oxford, UK
11- Elizabeth Whitwick Oxford, UK
12- Robert Twycross, Oxford, UK
13- Pat Dodson
14- Stephen Rashid, Reepham, Norfolk, UK
15- Dr Emma Went, Norwich. Norfolk, UK
16- Kate edwards Norwich Norfolk Uk
17- John Tallo, Aberdeen, UK
18- Rahel Enzler, East Grinstead, UK
19- Yvonne Christ CH
20- Franziska Hachen CH
21- Irene Sieben, Berlin, BRD
22- Christiane Horn, Ringkøbing,DK
23- Amy Horn, Ringkøbing,DK
24- Eila Neergaard, Aarhus, DK
25- Doreen McFarlane, Aarhus, DK
26- Johanne Eagle Road . Skanderborg DK
27- T. Scott Brineman, Yelm, WA, USA