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Day of Action against ExxonMobil in Malaysia

Message from the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) Malaysia.

July 4, 2001

Dear friends,

You are probably aware of the current international campaign against ExxonMobil. As the biggest US corporation and one of President Bush's biggest funders, ExxonMobil is responsible for lobbying the US government to reject the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and promoting the continued globalisation of fossil fuel-led development around the world. The company also holds a terrible human rights and environmental record.

We are sending you here a statement we have prepared in conjuction with International Day of Action against ExxonMobil on July 11, 2001. We hope that you will endorse the statement, which will be presented to ExxonMobil's KL office (Menara Esso, KLCC) and the US Embassy on that day. We are accepting sign-ons from both organisations and individuals, and hope that you will pass this statement on to your networks.

We would appreciate if you could respond to twnkl@po.jaring.my with your endorsement by 5pm, Monday, July 9, 2001. Also, please do let us know if you are interested in joining us on July 11 for the submission of the statement to ExxonMobil KL's office and the US Embassy.

For more information on the international campaign against ExxonMobil, please see www.pressurepoint.org and www.stopesso.com .

Thank you in advance for your attention and support.

Yours truly,

SM Mohd Idris

President

Consumers Association of Penang

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST EXXONMOBIL

July 11, 2001

Malaysians Charge ExxonMobil

with Crimes against Climate, Human Rights and Environment

In April 2001, United States President George Bush crushed worldwide hopes for reducing global warming by rejecting the Kyoto Protocol, even as changes in the earth's climate continue to wreck environmental disasteron communities and ecosystems around world, and proof strengthens that the cause is human action.

This decision of the Bush administration is alarming considering that the US, while holding only 4% of the world's population, produces 25% of the world's total emissions of carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas. Behind this unacceptable move are giant oil companies like ExxonMobil, who continue to disregard scientific evidence of climate change and push for the continued globalisation of fossil fuel-led development and unsustainable energy consumption patterns.

We, the undersigned, denounce the US government's rejection of the Kyoto treaty, and join the international campaign against ExxonMobil and its role in this shocking decision. We also hold the company accountable for the human rights abuses and environmental devastation it has inflicted around the world.

As the largest publicly-held US corporation and the 8th biggest economy in the world, ExxonMobil has the responsibility to insure that its US$210 billion a year profits are not made at the expense of climate stability, human rights and sustainable development. We deplore, however, that ExxonMobil has abused its power, and instead used its economic might as a death sentence to our planet and its people.

ExxonMobil has spent millions of US dollars on "greenwash" advertisements advocating fossil fuel-led development and free trade, pumped over US$1 million into Bush's presidential campaign, and actively lobbied the US government to reject the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

The company also holds a shocking human rights and environmental record. Over the last two decades, ExxonMobil has spent millions in hiring Indonesian military units to guard company facilities in Aceh, Indonesia, in full knowledge that these units were committing gross human rights violations against civilians. A lawsuit filed in Washington DC on June 20, 2001, on behalf of 11 Acehnese villagers, has named ExxonMobil liable for murder, genocide, torture, kidnapping at its liquefied natural gas operations in the conflict-torn province, less than 400 km west of Penang, Malaysia.

ExxonMobil has also been heavily criticised for abusing human and environmental rights in Nigeria, Ecuador, Columbia; for its involvement in the controversial Chad-Cameroon pipeline project; and for seeking permission to drill in the Arctic Refuge in North America.

Enough is enough. We will not watch silently as ExxonMobil continues to burn away our future. Today, on the International Day of Action against ExxonMobil, we join the global fight to protect the rights of our planet, people and environment, and to reclaim the power that transnational corporations have taken from us in shaping the world we live in.

We call on ExxonMobil to

- not stand in the way of the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, which calls on industrialised nations to reduce their CO2 emissions;

- accept an investigation by an international human rights tribunal and abide by its findings;

- cease all new fossil fuel exploration and invest instead in renewable energy.

We call on the US government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, abide by its obligations to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to free itself from the influence of over-powerful and predatory transnational corporations like ExxonMobil. As the world's biggest polluter and emitter of CO2, the US has the obligation to act responsibly.

We call on all Malaysians to join the international boycott against ExxonMobil, including all Esso and Mobil petrol stations, to send a message to the US and the oil industry to take climate justice, human rights and environmental sustainability seriously NOW. There is no luxury of choice, too much damage has already been done.