Asia Pacific Resources (APR) has spent the last dozen years working to build positive relationships in the area of the proposed mine. APR categorically denies making death threats, nor is the Company aware of any physical threat made by any of the many parties in Udon Thani that favour our project. APR would in no event sanction such behaviour. We further go on record to say that no contractors have been promised contracts by APR so that the web-site article with its reference to "death threats since late March from representatives of companies promised contracts by APR" appears to be a complete fabrication...Our staff based in Udon Thani suggest that the proportion of the community that supports the project is growing...The reference to the EIA [environmental impact assessment is interesting. The committee "assigned to study it" raised 26 questions -- some of which were in fact simple statements -- all of which the company has answered and in virtually every case the answers were already contained in the approved EIA.