Unocal's Yadana Project booklet (r)

[dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

One brief point.  Unocal claims to have spent $3 million on its
"development projects" in the pipeline zone.  This is figured at the
official rate of 5.6 kyats to the US dollar.  Today (July 24) the rate is
about 180 kyat to the dollar on the open market.  Thus Unocal's $3 million
suddenly becomes $100,000.  Only one ludicrous point out of many.

Larry Dohrs

On 21 Jun 1996 bmalcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: bmalcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bruce Malcolm)
>
> To all subscribers of Burmanet:
>
> I recently received a reply to a lengthy protest letter I sent to Unocal.
> This reply came in the form of a slick booklet entitled "The Yadana Project
> -- November 1995," filled with the usual orwellian false truths about how
> they are helping the local population through jobs, education, etc., and
> how they refuse to take a political position, how pulling out would
> constitute a political move, etc., etc...
>
> What I'd like to know is: have any of you also received this booklet?  If
> so, how did you respond?  I'd like to counter as many of their statements
> with as many solid facts as possible.  Since I've only been a subscriber to
> Burmanet for a few weeks, I don't have a lot of information on what's
> really going on w/the Yadana pipeline and I may already have inadvertently
> trashed some useful posts, not knowing I would need them...
>
> Could anybody who's already received and dealt with this booklet help me
> with my reply?  You can send me articles, statistics, anything that would
> help me counter their campaign of misinformation -- either as e-mail or
> e-mail attachments.  I will appreciate any and all responses.
>
> in gratitude and service --
>
>         Bruce Malcolm
>
>         bmalcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>