DATE: JANUARY 16, 2011
LOCATION: Playa del Tule, Los Cabos, BCS. Mexico
EVENT: HUMAN SOS made up of 5,000 people to protest all toxic open-pit mining
in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur.
CONTACT: info@bajasurviva.com | www.bajasurviva.com
The citizens of Los Cabos are organizing to express their support for the local tourism industry
and to ensure the permancence of Los Cabos as a world class tourist destination
and principal source of employment in the region.
On January 16th, 2011, 5000 people will form a human SOS in protest of toxic open-pit mining
activities which threaten the sole source of all water in the region: the Sierra la Laguna.
Vista Gold and Pediment Gold, Canadian mining companies, plan to extract gold in the Sierra la
Laguna, the sole source of water in Los Cabos and UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve.
The people of Los Cabos are unified in their opposition to open-pit gold mining and specifically
the process of gold cyanidation for the following reasons:
• uses industrial quantities of the potent poison, cyanide
• frees arsenic found in inner layers of crushed rock
• pollutes the scarce water resource of the region
• the mine is active for only 10 years, but the toxic waste remains forever
• destroys flora and fauna and the unique biodiversity found in the UNESCO designated biosphere reserve
• the poisonous runoff will reach and affect the coral reefs of the Sea of Cortez
• excavates holes equivalent to 40 football fields in circumference and up to 400 meters in depth
• creates only a hundred jobs and sub-operational jobs at a local level – all engineers and directors
are in Canada
• cyanide and arsenic are poisonous, carcinogenic, and cause gangrene
• cyanide will be transported by land and sea from Germany and transported across Mexico
The point of civic organization can be found at the following link : www.bajasurviva.com
The date is Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM
5.000 citizens of Los Cabos will gather and form a human SOS,
calling the attention of national and international media and state and federal governments.
To help put a stop to this project
which is so detrimental to the area and which is unanimously rejected by the citizens of
Los Cabos,we invite you to Los Cabos to cover the event.
This is the start of the local-based citizen movement which is growing in Baja California Sur
and which wants to ensure the permanence of Los Cabos as a World Class Tourist Destination
and the preservation of both a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the Aquarium of the World!
Sincerely, info@bajasurviva.com
Lets all try and make it to Tule on Sunday and to any demonstration to show our support. Whether or not this mining project stimulates the economy is a mute point. If poisonous chemicals are being used at the top of the mountain, where we get our rain, that then trickles through the bedrock and enters the underground aquifers which feeds all of Los Cabos’ wells than, it really doesn’t matter how much revenues we get, we will be poisoning our own water, which not only do we drink and water with, but this would also run off into the ocean. This just sounds like a very bad idea.