George Bush Sr. & Co. destroying glaciers in Chlile for more wealth

[shance]

Do you 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
specially 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 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 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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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
SanFelix
Valleyand 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.

[Richard D]

1. more:

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29223

(snip)

Those opposed to the project also point to the controversial history of Barrick Gold, purchased in 1983 by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, and also linked to Venezuelan magnate Gustavo Cisneros, owner of major communications media among other interests, and to the family of U.S. President George W. Bush.

According to the book ''The Best Democracy Money Can Buy'', by U.S. journalist Greg Palast, president George H.W. Bush (1989-1993), the current president's father, exerted pressure in Indonesia and Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo) for the benefit of Barrick Gold mining and petroleum deals.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. This article says the project is supposed to start in Jan '06. Anyone

know the current status of this situation?

[Richard D]

3. This is being discussed here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1297389

[Igel]

4. A question.

''No glaciologist, no scientific institute, no known study supports the risky experiment that the Barrick firm conducted in the republic of Kyrgyzstan,'' said the ecologist.


But what were the results of the "experiment"?

[elehhhhna]

5. I just spent 10 mins. googling & nothing but pesky cyanide spills are

just part of the biz. This Co. also seems to be owned by Saudis & Venezuelans, besides Carlyle...

[mom cat]

6. Gold mining is bad enough for the earth as it is, but the magnitude of

the destruction from this project will be unimaginable if it proceeds. Please keep this kicked and circulated!

[elehhhhna]

7. hell yes i will! They want to MOVE some GLACIERS? COME ON

now I've heard everything.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Thank you. This is unbearable. Hope something prevents it. n/t