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I think we need to keep the pressure on. I liked the way our basic message=
=20 was evolving over the course of last week. As you pointed out, the Japanes= e=20 utilities view us as just another annoying US company who is going to come= =20 in, bang its head against the wall for a few months and then leave. We nee= d=20 to continue to reinforce the message that not only are we not going away, w= e=20 are starting other businesses here to keep us going while we continue to=20 agitate for reform in the electricity sector. Nicholas O'Day 05/21/2001 04:37 AM To: Mark Palmer/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Jackie Gentle/LON/ECT@ECT, Vance=20 Meyer/NA/Enron@ENRON cc: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, John Sherriff/LON/ECT@ECT, Mika=20 Watanabe/AP/Enron@Enron=20 Subject: Translation - Nikkan Kogyo 5/21 (Enron Mentioned) To date, reports on Enron's role in California have been limited to a repri= nt=20 of a Sacramento Bee article appearing in the Denki Shimbun - a limited=20 circulation publication sponsored by the Japanese utilities. Last Friday Mr= =20 Ohta, President of Chubu Electric and Chairman of the Federation of Electri= c=20 Power Companies, made some uninformed comments at a regular energy press cl= ub=20 briefing about Enron's commitment to its Californian customers . Ohta will = be=20 retiring from both positions in two weeks.=20 In the past both Chubu Electric and the Federation of Electric Power=20 Companies have distanced themselves from Mr Ohta's public comments which ar= e=20 generally considered to be ultra conservative and unsupported by facts. As = a=20 result, we have tended to ignore his comments. However, on this occasion I= =20 think we need to set the record straight on Enron's role in California. I= =20 would welcome your thoughts on whether we should let the comments pass or= =20 respond. Over the past few months we have received various statements from Houston= =20 (for both internal and external consumption) explaining Enron's role in=20 California. Most recently (May 10) we received from Peggy Mahoney (via Vanc= e)=20 an EES statement dated 1 February entitled "Media Statement about EES=20 Resourcing California Customers". It would be helpful if there is a=20 comprehensive statement that has recently been put together that we could= =20 distribute here. If not, we can put something together here tomorrow and=20 email it across to you for approval, with the aim of getting something out= =20 Wednesday. As an aside, we had a record 3,766 visitors to the EJ website last Friday,= =20 the day the Brattle paper appeared on the website. kind regards =20 ---------------------- Forwarded by Nicholas O'Day/AP/Enron on 05/21/2001= =20 05:38 PM --------------------------- Tom Fitzgibbon 05/21/2001 04:15 PM To: "Michael.Grimes" <Michael.Grimes@enron.com<, "Nicholas.O'Day"=20 <Nicholas.O'Day@enron.com<, "makiko.imai" <makiko.imai@enron.com<,=20 "Rousseau.Anai" <Rousseau.Anai@enron.com<, "Mika.Watanabe"=20 <Mika.Watanabe@enron.com<, "Jeremy.Thirsk" <Jeremy.Thirsk@enron.com<,=20 "Morten.E.Pettersen" <Morten.E.Pettersen@enron.com<, "Joseph.P.Hirl"=20 <Joseph.P.Hirl@enron.com<, "Jonathan.Whitehead"=20 <Jonathan.Whitehead@enron.com<, "eva.hoeffelman" <eva.hoeffelman@enron.com<= ,=20 Carey Sloan <sloan@21stenergy.com<, "stefan.niesler"=20 <stefan.niesler@enron.com<, "Akiko.Higaki" <Akiko.Higaki@enron.com<,=20 "katy.lomax" <katy.lomax@enron.com<, "brian.stanley"=20 <brian.stanley@enron.com<, "andy.foote" <andy.foote@enron.com<, "ed.cattiga= n"=20 <ed.cattigan@enron.com<, "tom.fitzgibbon" <tom.fitzgibbon@enron.com<, skean= =20 <skean@enron.com<, "mark.palmer" <mark.palmer@enron.com<, "vance.meyer"=20 <vance.meyer@enron.com<, "karen.denne" <karen.denne@enron.com<,=20 "Ann.M.Schmidt" <Ann.M.Schmidt@enron.com<, "jackie.gentle"=20 <jackie.gentle@enron.com< cc: =20 Subject: Translation - Nikkan Kogyo 5/21 (Enron Mentioned) Please find attached translation of the article "Scathing Comment at Press= =20 Conference by Hiroji Ota, Chairman of The Federation of Electric Power=20 Companies of Japan Thumbs-Up for Bush=01,s New Policy, and Thumbs-Down for = Enron=01, s Proposals" from Nikkan Kogyo Shinbum dated May 21.
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