Thanks, Leroy. I noticed that you are from OISE (what a nice place, by
the way!). For what is worth, the company involved, Barrick Gold
Corporation, besides having some sort of relation with Bush father,
seems to involve Canadian investers. Alas!To make things worst, it seems
that not only its environmental practices are despicable but also its
labor ones, not only in Chile, but also in other neglected parts of the
world. At least, that is what I can learn from the Spanish web worlds,
interestingly enough the Anglosaxon websites talk only about its
succesfull investments. What a strange idiomatic divide!
David Preiss
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-----Original Message-----
From: lcclarke [mailto:lcclarke@rogers.com]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 6:16 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Cc: oisestudents@oise.utoronto.ca; derekhodson@oise.utoronto.ca; Erminia
Pedretti; Larry Bencze
Subject: FW: Urgent Environmental Alert
Thanks David,
This indeed can be seen as great example of science teaching and
learning as a socio-cultural activity, it is up to us as global
citizens, a community of practitioners and learners to see it as an
object worthy of a desirable outcome (a safe and sustainable global
ecosystem.)This issue of opposing the destruction of the Pascua-Lama
glaciers, in the Huasco region of Chile and the San Juan region of
Argentina is an excellent example for taking science education beyond
the sterile borders of schools and the crystal palaces of academia to a
very high level - politicization. It is global science education that is
likely to have far-reaching impacts. I will do my part in alerting and
writing to relevant networks and stakeholders.
Thanks for playing your part in finding a solution to a present-day,
real-world science conundrum.
Leroy
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Leroy C. Clarke
Doctoral Candidate, Curriculum Teaching & Learning
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Room 11-235, 252 Bloor Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1V6
Tel: 905-432-7792
Email: lclarke@oise.utoronto.ca or leroy.clarke@durhamrc.edu.on.ca
Listen to Life Changing Radio: http://www.lifetalk.net/listenHere.html
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-----Original Message-----
Dear Friends
Please help to diffuminate this information. What Barrick Gold is doing
is really outraging. Don't do it only for us, do it for you. The
destruction of these glaciers puts the whole humanity in peril. David
Urgent Environmental Alert:
Protect the Glaciers of the South of the World!!
Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama Project
Dear friends, in organizations and networks,
In the highest reaches of the South American Andes, on the border of
Chile and Argentina, there are eternal snow glaciers of the purest water
in the world. One of these, in Pascua-Lama, in the Huasco region of
Chile and the San Juan region of Argentina, will be soon destroyed
unless we act quickly.
Applying the laws of the Mining Treaty between Chile and Argentina, an
agreement made practically in secret between both countries during the
presidencies of Carlos Menem and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Barrick Gold
Corporation, through its subsidiaries Compañía Minera Nevada S.A. of
Chile, Barrick Exploraciones Argentina S.A. and Exploraciones Mineras
Argentinas S.A, will extract gold, silver, copper and mercury in a
open-pit strip mine in the delicate high Andes bioregion directly upon
the Argentina-Chile border, destroying the glaciers which have nourished
the region for thousands of years and irreversibly damaging the
ecosystems and life of the indigenous (Diaguita) communities.
The United Nations and other world organizations have said over and over
that the right to water is essential to life, equivalent to any other
human right. According to international agreements on the right to
water, the State must guarantee the preservation of the water sources
for future generations. Pascua-Lama’s glaciers constitute a natural
reserve for fresh water for the San Guillermo UNESCO World Heritage
Biosphere site. This in a time when more than a billion persons
worldwide do not have access to water (UN 1992).
These glaciers constitute a precious source of environmental knowledge,
unique in that they carry information of flora, fauna, and the history
of many thousands of years of the region of the South Andes.
The mining exploitation will not only ruin the water reserves, but also
will irreversibly damage the way of life of the Diaguita people, who
have lived in the now-affected zones for many hundreds of years. The
strip-mining will damage the environment of ancestral lands of these
indigenous people of the Americas.
We are convinced that the destruction of these glaciers will not only
affect ourselves and the Diaguita communities, but will also affect all
of humanity, because we think that all are equal victims of this attack
against historical, cultural and ecological patrimony of the South
world. This is the first glacier to be destroyed in the South Andes.
Surely after this will come many others.
We will not permit the authorities of the state to authorize this
exploitation without the necessary international protection, adoption
and guarantee of our human rights.
We think that there is no other solution than to create alliances,
associations and work together to do what is necessary to absolutely
stop this project, to prevent the damage to the glaciers, to the
ecosystem and the memory of the Diaguita people, for the preservation of
the historical identity of Argentina, Chile and Latin America.
We invite members of international networks to be part of the activity
of this struggle to defend the environment and the history of our
people. This project is in an important step in the approval process on
the part of environmental authorities of Chile. For this, it is
necessary that you take action as quickly as possible.
The glaciers are our right and our children’s right.
We need to count on your solidarity:
1. Forward this Alert to every network, organization, and friend to
raise public consciousness over the need to stop this attack on
humanity.
2. Send an e-mail to the following addresses demanding that they
indefinitely suspend all mining activity in the area, for the
preservation of biodiversity, the indigenous historical patrimony, and
for the water for future generations.
ARGENTINA
webmaster(at)presidencia.gov.ar Presidente Néstor Carlos Kirchner
daniel.scioli(at)senado.gov.ar Presidente del Senado Daniel Osvaldo
Scioli
spministro(at)msal.gov.ar Ministro de Salud y Ambiente Ginés González
García
CHILE
opinión(at)presidencia.cl Presidente Ricardo Lagos Escobar
sromero(at)senado.cl Presidente del Senado, Sen. Sergio Romero
ascencio(at)congreso.cl Presidente Cámara de Diputados Dip. Gabriel
Ascencio
informacion(at)conama.cl Director CONAMA
pavila.3(at)conama.cl Director COREMA III Región Plácido Avila Castro
Organismos Internacionales
cidhoea(at)oas.org Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
amedeo.buonajuti(at)unep.org Programa Naciones Unidas para el Medio
Ambiente
urgent-action(at)ohchr.org Comité del PIDESC – ONU
ngochr(at)ohchr.org Alto Comisionado de Derecho Humanos
3. Sign on to this alert by sending an e-mail to: cpadilla(at)rdc.cl,
dcarrasco(at)fdla.cl, or defensadelambiente(at)yahoo.es, enabling it to
be presented before the States and International Organisations.
4. Distribute this Alert to all the States that maintain diplomatic
relations with Chile and Argentina, their embassies and consulates, and
relevant international, regional, and subregional organizations, for the
adoption of urgent measures and immediate actions aimed at the total
suspension of mining activity in this location.
5. Adopt all other initiatives and affirmative actions towards the
environmental protection of the glaciers and their ecosystem. To all the
states, institutions, international organizations, networks, and
organizations of the world.
Cesar Padilla
Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales OLCA
Diego Carrasco
Fundación Ciudadana para las Américas
Luis Alejandro Rojas
Movimiento por los Derechos Ciudadanos.
Jenia Jofré Canobra
CODEFF Amigos de la Tierra Chile
Jorge Capatto
FATAR, Federación de Amigos de la Tierra Argentina
Jürguen Rottmann
CODEFF Amigos de la Tierra Chile
Oscar Rivas
SOBREVIVENCIA Amigos de la Tierra Paraguay
Tatiana Roa
CENSAT, Amigos de la Tierra Colombia
Juan Pablo Lazo Ureta
Claudio Lopez
Analía Cócolo
Capítulo Argentino de la PIDHDD – Argentina
Fernando Rodríguez
Capítulo Boliviano de la PIDHDD – Bolivia
Regina Méndez
Capítulo Mexicano de la PIDHDD – México
Carlos Tamup
Capítulo Guatemalteco de la PIDHDD – Guatemala
Soledad Villagra
Capítulo Paraguayo de la PIDHDD – Paraguay
Natalia Paredes
Plataforma Colombiana de la PIDHDD – Colombia
Alexis Ponce
Capítulo Ecuatoriano de la PIDHDD – Ecuador
David Preiss
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PACE Center at Yale University: www.yale.edu/pace
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Phone: 56-2-3544605
Fax: 56-2-354-4844
E-mail: david.preiss@yale.edu, davidpreiss@puc.cl
From: David Preiss [mailto:davidpreiss@puc.cl]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 2:48 PM
To: mjudson@ucsd.edu
Cc: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: Urgent Environmental Alert
Sounds like a great idea, Marie.
Thank you very much!
David
David Preiss
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PACE Center at Yale University: www.yale.edu/pace
Homepage: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ddp6/
Phone: 56-2-3544605
Fax: 56-2-354-4844
E-mail: david.preiss@yale.edu, davidpreiss@puc.cl
-----Original Message-----
From: Marie Judson [mailto:mjudson@ucsd.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 2:39 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Urgent Environmental Alert
David, I'm going to pass this on to my son's high
school biology teacher. Maybe he will launch a
concerted project on it. (They're studying biospheres
and threat to biodiversity right now!)
Regards,
Marie
--- David Preiss <davidpreiss@puc.cl> wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear Friends
> Please help to diffuminate this information. What
> Barrick Gold is doing
> is really outraging. Don't do it only for us, do it
> for you. The
> destruction of these glaciers puts the whole
> humanity in peril.
> David
>
> Urgent Environmental Alert:
> Protect the Glaciers of the South of the World!!
>
>
> Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama Project
>
>
> Dear friends, in organizations and networks,
>
> In the highest reaches of the South American Andes,
> on the border of
> Chile and Argentina, there are eternal snow glaciers
> of the purest water
> in the world. One of these, in Pascua-Lama, in the
> Huasco region of
> Chile and the San Juan region of Argentina, will be
> soon destroyed
> unless we act quickly.
>
> Applying the laws of the Mining Treaty between Chile
> and Argentina, an
> agreement made practically in secret between both
> countries during the
> presidencies of Carlos Menem and Eduardo Frei
> Ruiz-Tagle, Barrick Gold
> Corporation, through its subsidiaries Compañía
> Minera Nevada S.A. of
> Chile, Barrick Exploraciones Argentina S.A. and
> Exploraciones Mineras
> Argentinas S.A, will extract gold, silver, copper
> and mercury in a
> open-pit strip mine in the delicate high Andes
> bioregion directly upon
> the Argentina-Chile border, destroying the glaciers
> which have nourished
> the region for thousands of years and irreversibly
> damaging the
> ecosystems and life of the indigenous (Diaguita)
> communities.
>
> The United Nations and other world organizations
> have said over and over
> that the right to water is essential to life,
> equivalent to any other
> human right. According to international agreements
> on the right to
> water, the State must guarantee the preservation of
> the water sources
> for future generations. Pascua-Lama’s glaciers
> constitute a natural
> reserve for fresh water for the San Guillermo UNESCO
> World Heritage
> Biosphere site. This in a time when more than a
> billion persons
> worldwide do not have access to water (UN 1992).
>
> These glaciers constitute a precious source of
> environmental knowledge,
> unique in that they carry information of flora,
> fauna, and the history
> of many thousands of years of the region of the
> South Andes.
>
> The mining exploitation will not only ruin the water reserves, but
> also will irreversibly damage the way of life of the
> Diaguita people, who
> have lived in the now-affected zones for many
> hundreds of years. The
> strip-mining will damage the environment of
> ancestral lands of these
> indigenous people of the Americas.
>
> We are convinced that the destruction of these
> glaciers will not only
> affect ourselves and the Diaguita communities, but
> will also affect all
> of humanity, because we think that all are equal
> victims of this attack
> against historical, cultural and ecological
> patrimony of the South
> world. This is the first glacier to be destroyed in
> the South Andes.
> Surely after this will come many others.
>
> We will not permit the authorities of the state to
> authorize this
> exploitation without the necessary international
> protection, adoption
> and guarantee of our human rights.
>
> We think that there is no other solution than to
> create alliances,
> associations and work together to do what is
> necessary to absolutely
> stop this project, to prevent the damage to the
> glaciers, to the
> ecosystem and the memory of the Diaguita people, for
> the preservation of
> the historical identity of Argentina, Chile and
> Latin America.
>
> We invite members of international networks to be
> part of the activity
> of this struggle to defend the environment and the
> history of our
> people. This project is in an important step in the
> approval process on
> the part of environmental authorities of Chile. For
> this, it is
> necessary that you take action as quickly as
> possible.
>
> The glaciers are our right and our children’s right.
>
>
> We need to count on your solidarity:
>
>
> 1. Forward this Alert to every network,
> organization, and friend to
> raise public consciousness over the need to stop
> this attack on
> humanity.
>
> 2. Send an e-mail to the following addresses
> demanding that they
> indefinitely suspend all mining activity in the
> area, for the
> preservation of biodiversity, the indigenous
> historical patrimony, and
> for the water for future generations.
>
> ARGENTINA
> webmaster(at)presidencia.gov.ar
> <mailto://webmaster@presidencia.gov.ar>
> Presidente Néstor Carlos Kirchner
> daniel.scioli(at)senado.gov.ar
> <mailto:daniel.scioli@senado.gov.ar>
> Presidente del Senado Daniel Osvaldo Scioli
> spministro(at)msal.gov.ar
> <mailto:spministro@msal.gov.ar> Ministro de
> Salud y Ambiente Ginés González García
>
> CHILE
> opinión(at)presidencia.cl
> <mailto:opini%97n@presidencia.cl> Presidente
> Ricardo Lagos Escobar
> sromero(at)senado.cl <mailto:sromero@senado.cl>
> Presidente del Senado,
> Sen. Sergio Romero
> ascencio(at)congreso.cl <mailto:sromero@senado.cl>
> Presidente Cámara de
> Diputados Dip. Gabriel Ascencio
> informacion(at)conama.cl <mailto:sromero@senado.cl>
> Director CONAMA
> pavila.3(at)conama.cl <mailto:pavila.3@conama.cl>
> Director COREMA III
> Región Plácido Avila Castro
>
> Organismos Internacionales
> cidhoea(at)oas.org <mailto:cidhoea@oas.org>
> Comisión Interamericana de
> Derechos Humanos
> amedeo.buonajuti(at)unep.org
> <mailto:amedeo.buonajuti@unep.org>
> Programa Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente
> urgent-action(at)ohchr.org
> <mailto:urgent-action@ohchr.org> Comité del
> PIDESC – ONU
> ngochr(at)ohchr.org <mailto:ngochr@ohchr.org> Alto
> Comisionado de
> Derecho Humanos
>
> 3. Sign on to this alert by sending an e-mail to: cpadilla(at)rdc.cl
> <mailto:ngochr@ohchr.org> , dcarrasco(at)fdla.cl
> <mailto:dcarrasco@fdla.cl> , or defensadelambiente(at)yahoo.es
> <mailto:defensadelambiente@yahoo.es> , enabling it
> to be presented
> before the States and International Organisations.
>
> 4. Distribute this Alert to all the States that
> maintain diplomatic
> relations with Chile and Argentina, their embassies
> and consulates, and
> relevant international, regional, and subregional organizations, for
> the
>
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Marie Judson
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Communication
UCSD, Mailcode 0503
858.643.9090
mjudson@ucsd.edu
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