Convergence Against Bar Barrick
Mining at Lake Cowal
Solidarity for Aboriginal Sovereignty
Wednesday 20 October 2004
Converge at Canberra Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Friday 22 – Monday 25 October 2004
Converge at Lake Cowal 47 km north-east
West Wyalong, central western NSW
Lake Cowal Music Festival
for Aboriginal Sovereignty
Saturday 23 October 2004
“Don’t desecrate our dreaming site,
don’t mine our sacred site.
I have fought Barrick in the courts
for
over two years.
Now it is time for us all to work together
to stop this disaster waiting to happen”
Traditional Owner,
Neville ‘Uncle’ Chappy Williams
PRECIOUS
WATER
SACRED
LAND
Lake Cowal located in the heartland of the Wiradjuri Nation is NSW largest
natural inland lake. It is currently under threat from proposed open pit,
cyanide leaching gold mine, operated by Barrick Gold, a transnational mining
company.
By halting the proposed Cowal Gold Project we can prevent a potential environmental
disaster involving 6000 tonnes of cyanide a year leaching out into the Lachlan
River system, in the heart of the Murray Darling Basin.
Traditional Owners of the lake are fighting to stop the destruction of this
sacred site.
'To destroy a nation's most sacred site can be seen
as nothing short of genocide and ethnocide and a denial of spiritual and religious
freedom, under S116 of the[Australian] Constitution'.
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