*[Enwl-eng] Mitsubishi

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                        Mitsubishi Corporation is trying to build a dirty 
new coal plant in a Vietnamese community that’s still recovering from 
industrial disaster.

                        Mitsubishi’s partners have walked out. Tell 
Mitsubishi to abandon this dirty new coal plant now.



                         Sign the petition


            In Ha Tinh province, Vietnam, fishermen have already fought off 
one company which poisoned their coastline. Now they're fighting back 
against another: Mitsubishi Corporation.

            Japan’s largest trading company is making a last ditch effort to 
secure finance for a big, dirty new coal plant called Vung Ang 2.

            The site Mitsubishi has chosen is very same location as the 
infamous Formosa Steel Plant disaster in 2016, which wiped out the local 
fishing industry and poisoned 200km of pristine coastline with cyanide.

            The local community has taken on powerful companies like 
Mitsubishi before and right now the company is keenly away of the 
controversy this project is causing. The future of the project hangs on 
negotiations over the next two months.

            If we create enough outcry, we can force Mitsubishi to scrap 
this dirty coal plant for good.

            Tell Mitsubishi: don’t fuel ecological disaster. Abandon Vung 
Ang 2 now.

            We know we can because we've done it before. Last year almost 
20,000 SumOfUs members helped push British bank Standard Chartered to adopt 
a new policy that forced the bank to withdraw from the Vung Ang 2 plant.

            Now three more companies which were originally backing the 
project have joined Standard Chartered and pulled out.

            Which leaves Mitsubishi isolated and with only months left to 
secure a loan or it could be forced to abandon the project too.

            We know that to avoid catastrophic climate change all countries 
must have phased out coal fired power by 2040. But economics don’t stack up 
either: by 2021 it will already be cheaper in Vietnam to invest in solar and 
wind than coal -- and with significantly less danger posed to community 
health and the climate.

            Add your voice. Call on Mitsubishi to walk away from the Vung 
Ang 2 project now.


             Sign the petition
            Thanks for all that you do,
            Nick and the team at SumOfUs



            More information:

            Anger burns on Vietnam's poisoned coast a year after spill 
Reuters, April 4 2017
            Vietnamese provinces say “no” to coal plants–government and 
industry still want more Mekong Eye, March 7 2019
            Factsheet: Vung Ang 2, Market Forces, updated February 2020









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            From: Nick Haines, SumOfUs
            Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 6:07 PM
            Subject: Mitsubishi








 
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