Conservationists win reprieve against Phuket marina project

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

The small isle in Ao Kung bay features so much coral that it is called Koh Hei, literally ’Coral Island’. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub / file
 

PHUKET: The company that filed the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the B450 million Ao Kung Marina and Sports Complex planned to be built in Pa Khlok, on Phuket’s east coast, has retracted its EIA application, The Phuket News has confirmed today (Oct 19).

 

The news follows former Phuket Governor Norraphat Plodthong in May calling for new a public hearing to be held on the project after dire concerns were raised over the devastating effect dredging a channel there may have on an aquatic field of corals nearby. (See story here.)

 

Rattanaporn Jaengjaidee of the Ao Kung Conservation Group, which has campaigned strongly against the project, told The Phuket News today that the group received a letter from the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP) on Tuesday (Oct 16) confirming that the EIA had been retracted.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/conservationists-win-reprieve-against-phuket-marina-project-69042.php#yAW74rfjDsJIGr80.97

 

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2018-10-20

 

Payday someone?

 

Ha ha. It would have been just another way over priced marina filled with speed boat operators.

Case in point royal phuket marina. This marina is now 80 percent occupied by speed boat operators.

Both the hardstand erea and marina wet berths.

The suckers who bought a condo for 500,000 usd and villa for 3 miilion usd  crazy prices being its in a mangrove that is more like a ecological disaster. Dodgy construction and generally just a real congested nightmare. Traffic is rediculouse

They get to listen to thai boys laughing and joking every morning at 6 am  till 7pm along with chinese tourists and there lovely banter. Smell gas fumes and hear engines constantly being reved up .listen to heavy machinery all day.

Dont go here if you own a yacht. There are more options better suited to yachting such as aopo marina, and yacht haven. Even boat lagoon though not much better 

 

Isn't all the coral dead already? Killed by the silt from tin mining.

Koh Hei meaning what ? Dead Coral Island ?