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@... 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.