Thailand Delays Anti-pollution Plan

[george]

Thailand delays implementation of Map Ta Put anti-pollution plan

BANGKOK: -- Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Industry Minister Kosit Panpiemras has suggested that a master plan to contain pollution in Thailand's eastern seaboard Map Ta Put industrial zone be delayed for implemention now, but that it be brought into force in another year.

The National Environment Commission, the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, Map Ta Put municipality and other public and private agencies will contribute to the implementation of the anti-pollution scheme, which will be laid out by committees of academics and officials, in a one-year time, in the industrial estate and elsewhere throughout the eastern seaboard province of Rayong, Mr. Kosit said.

The industry minister said an official report on the polluting of Map Ta Put by various industrial factories has been made but further studies by those committees are considered necessary.

Nevertheless, the National Environment Commission had earlier postponed the proposed branding of Map Ta Put as a Pollution Control Area but the Greenpeace Southeast Asia, an environmental organisation, argued that it is time the industrial estate was so declared. The authorities should not have considered industry ahead of environment, the pollution watch group commented.

According to the Greenpeace Southeast Asia, water in the neighbourhood of the industrial estate was found to be tainted, that it reeks and is contaminated with high levels of dissolved cadmium, lead, iron and manganese, and rainwater is the area was found to contain acid.

--TNA 2007-01-22

[Mid]

Question ??

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=102624

same, same ??

[londonthai]

same event with a completely different twist "Crackdown On Air Pollution Caused By Industrial Estates" - looks like this 'crackdown' will be just a joke

[bino]

Perhaps some money or a new Mercedes was offered by "various industrial factories" to create a delay after the earlier news broke........?

[Tony Clifton]

Why only factories while smoking trucks and buses spew their crud all over the country?

[Mid]

Why only factories while smoking trucks and buses spew their crud all over the country?

true

but

let'em START somewhere ................................

[PhilHarries]

same event with a completely different twist "Crackdown On Air Pollution Caused By Industrial Estates" - looks like this 'crackdown' will be just a joke

Are you insinuating that some crackdowns are not a joke?

Most definately a case of TIT I'm afraid.

[kmart]

Consider the three biggest production overheads of modern petrochem / downstream companies... And then wonder why they are here in the first place? Compared to a lot of industrial centres, Maptaphut is not so polluted at all. - At least its in a designated zone. Look around Bangkok and Samut Prakarn and the illegal factories and dumping that goes on there... Right next to residential areas?

[Tony Clifton]

Consider the three biggest production overheads of modern petrochem / downstream companies... And then wonder why they are here in the first place? Compared to a lot of industrial centres, Maptaphut is not so polluted at all. - At least its in a designated zone. Look around Bangkok and Samut Prakarn and the illegal factories and dumping that goes on there... Right next to residential areas?

The smell in Samut Prakan is unbelievable. I was told it comes from the tanning factories, smells like a giant cat has sprayed the whole area. The khlongs are saturated with chemicals.

[astral]

The longer they wait, the harder the task will be.............