Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.

Subject: Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 12:25 PM

I thought this might incense those strong songwriters out there and lead to some inpsiriing songs to incense the rest of us!

Obviously not content with what the Bush Son is doing to the planet, the Bush Father is now putting his support behind:

The Pascua Lama Project.

Here is an e mail/petition all about it, that was passed to me by a very dear friend. Perhaps you would take the time to read it and pass it on to others so that they can register their horror as well.

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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 ofthe world - and to make 2 huge holes, each as big as a whole mountain, onefor 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.

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
[e-mail] 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) Claire Colvine, Liverpool, UK.

7) Charles Williams, Liverpool, UK

8) Mary Williams, Manchester, UK

9)Sarah Wettenhall, Melbourne, Australia 10] Mary Moore,
Healesville,
Australia

11) Jocelyn Harvey, Madrid, Spain

12) Michelle Campbell, Vancouver, Canada

13) Lynn Irving, Westport, NZ

14) Glenn Irving, Westport, NZ

15) Kate Dermer, Raglan, NZ

16) Joanna McKay, Raglan, NZ

17). Anna Bartlett, palma, spain.

18) Hamish Moeller, Taupo, NZ !

19) andreas eggmann, chamonix, france

20)jackie ke eble, Mount Maunganui, NZ.

21)Simon Fritchley, Mount Maunganui, NZ.

22)Abi Cross, Plymouth, UK

23) Kirsteen Ruffell, London UK

24) Julian Drummond, Isle of Wight, UK

25) Serena Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK

26) Angela Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK

27) Jesuriel Senechal, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

28) Alexander Phelps, Miami Beach, FL, USA 29)Christopher Costa,
Keaau,HI,USA

30) Joshua D. Voerman, Arcata, CA, USA 31)Denielle Perry de
Ruiz, Arcata,
CA,USA

32) PennElys GoodShield, Trinidad, CA USA

33) Kiauhyolotl Diana A. López Ramírez, Edo. de Méx. MEX.

34) Miktlan Ehekateotl Kuauhtlinxan, Mex Df

35) Emily Belfrage, Galway, Ireland

36) Duncan Mackintosh, Sussex, UK

37) Emer Heavey, Bath, UK

38) Bevis Nathan, Trowbridge, UK

39) Graham Massey Bath, UK

40) Jan Athis Biddulph, UK

41) Lois Hague, Macclesfield, UK

42) Ginny Feeney, UK

43.Mary Humphreys,UK

44. Jan Cole, Scotland, UK

______________________________________________________________________


You can read all about Pascua Lama here:

http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/104/Pascua_Lama_Background

And here is a photo of the beauty they want, and aim, to destroy, purely in the name of greed:

http://www.tcgnews.com/santiagotimes/index.php?nav=story&story_id=9512&topic_id=1


Don't know about you, but I've had enough of Complete Prats harming this precious planet, in the name of our species!

Time to change....time to make a stand....



Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 01:48 PM

There some good info on this at Snopes, which deems it to be true, also: click here.

Subject: RE: Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 02:58 PM

Here is some more information:

http://www.tierramerica.net/2005/0618/iarticulo.shtml

Subject: RE: Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 02:10 AM

"Although the text of the petition states that former U.S. president George Bush is a (board) member of the Barrick Gold Corporation, this does not appear to be the case. George H. W. Bush (who served as President of the United States of America from 1989-1993 and is the father of the current U.S. president, George W. Bush) was Honorary Chairman of Barrick's International Advisory Board from 1995 to 1999. He is not now listed as a member of the corporation's Board of Directors." (from Snopes)

FYI, Barrick Gold is a Canadian company, and we should be ashamed.

Subject: RE: Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.
From: John O'L
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 01:56 AM

More here

Proyecto Pascua Lama de Barrick

Subject: RE: Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.
From: Anne Lister
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 07:20 PM

Is there an on-line petition that will work better than the "add your name to the list and forward" kind of petition which always succeeds in becoming mathematically pointless and crashing servers? I'd already been sent the petition that started this thread and realised that signing it wouldn't actually help - but it would be good to do something.   And yes, it might become a song, I suppose.

Anne

Subject: RE: Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 08:22 PM

There are 'web petition' sites - one is

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/

Subject: RE: Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 11:17 PM

And, here is the one for this cause - thanks Foolestroupe and, Tabster, good question: Petition Online for Pascua Lama.

Subject: RE: Song Inspiration from Bush Snr.
From: Anne Lister
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 12:55 PM

Thanks - I've signed, and will pass on the info to get more signatures on there.

Anne