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Thanks to protests from all over the world, Mitsubishi and the Mexican government have cancelled plans for salt plant in San Ingancio Lagoon.

Alert!                       LETTER December 3, 1999

Mr. Hiroaki Yano, President
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Mitsubishi Denki Building
2-2-3 Marunouchi
Chiyoda-kU, Tokyo 100-8310
Japan

Dear Mr. Yano,

I regret to inform you we will advise our members not to buy any products bearing the Mitsubishi name until  you abandon plan for a salt evaporation plant at San Ignacio Lagoon in  Mexico.

Your company's recent deceitful press release, which painted a false picture of the environmental effects of a similar evaporation plant, neglected to mention the deaths of 94 endangered sea turtles attributed to high concentration of salts in the waste brine.  Nor did it mention the mile-long pier, increased ocean traffic nor the development of housing and services that would be needed for the work force nor the fact that the operation would impinge on a pristine World Heritage site.

It is of special concern that this lagoon is the primary birthing ground of gray whales, a species recently (and ill-advisedly in my opinion) removed from the "threatened" category of  the endangered species list.. This species suffered an unusually high number of natural deaths, which were attributed to changing environmental factors, during the past year.  It would not enhance your company's position in world opinion if your company were to be responsible for further environmental changes which seem almost certain to have an adverse effect on gray whale reproduction.

I hope you will reconsider Mitsubishi's involvement in this harmful enterprise, which has been condemned by the Mexican Ministry of Fisheries, Natural Resources and the Environment and people all around the world.

                                                                                                     Sincerely yours,