Please find a letter to World Bank President James Wolfensohn re: the Extractive Industries Review

Please find a letter to World Bank President James Wolfensohn re: the Extractive Industries Review below. This review, which caps a two-year-long evaluation of the development impacts of the World Bank Groups support for oil, mining, and gas projects worldwide, has recommended that the World Bank adopt significant reforms, including immediately ceasing funding for coal projects worldwide and phasing out its support for oil production by 2008. The Bank-sponsored review also recommended enhanced human rights protections, prior informed consent for indigenous and project-affected peoples, and an end to support for destructive mining technologies.

Not surprisingly, the Bank's management is proposing rejecting all but the weakest of the EIR's recommendations. Only a strong message from civil society and others that this response is inadequate can sway the Bank on this. Your signature below is vital in helping the Bank to get this message.

Please distribute this far and wide through allied networks. Check www.seen.org and www.foei.org for more updates about the EIR and information about what you can do. Thanks in advance.