^{Talk, talk, talk...  No jail awaits.}

Even the threat that the Police will do anything surprises me

Out on my usual Bike Ride this morning i counted eight fires still burning from during the night, mostly domestic and garden rubbish. Two other newly lit fires that i saw were both in the grounds of Public Buildings (Tambon's); they were burning leaves and general rubbish.

 

Would suggest they start arresting and sending to jail their own Civil Servants, especially the Bosses of these buildings who should be instructing their staff not to burn anything.   Too busy on the Golf Course or out with their Mia Noi's i guess !

Do these fires include all those street BBQ's??? (especially in Bangkok)

I spoke to a farang last year about burning and suggested he report fires to the police.

He said they told him the would kill him. 

I don't know if its true as later i saw he was burning branch's on his land

????

8 hours ago, Rimmer said:

I don't think the country can do very much about fires in Cambodia

One way to fight fires is to burn a buffer zone, once the wind changes, how about from the border to about 500km east.

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Amid the ongoing concern about 2.5 PM particulate matter in the air came news that people who light fires can be jailed and fined. 

I'll let all the villagers know in my Moobaan.  I'm sure they will be quaking with fear.  Given the nightly burning, the village should be empty soon.

Oh yeah, who enforces this policy on the government?  A couple of weeks ago the local forest service were raking up and burning leaves on their own land.  So much for a role model 'eh? 

And what about the monks who steal money, have sex with underage kids, do drugs, drink-drive and kill people What is there sentence? Oh de-frock I forgot Couple of months later new name and frock carry on Business as usual

It does not matter how many laws there are for Traffic or Pollution , if there is nobody out on the street enforcing them , then they might as well not be there.

On 2/1/2019 at 7:58 AM, webfact said:

jail awaits those that light fires

So the persons living in the "low rent" areas of the city fire up their charcoal cookers to make a meal and the BIB arrests them and everyone goes hungry? 

5 minutes ago, Prairieboy said:

So the persons living in the "low rent" areas of the city fire up their charcoal cookers to make a meal and the BIB arrests them and everyone goes hungry? 

I am not sure how well you know Thailand but 99% of the people (in BKK at least)cook on gas. There are gas services everywhere. The price of gas is really low and you can cook long with it. Its the burning of rubbish and clearing of fields that is a problem. 

what about the old cars/pickups  that plough out diesel black smoke !!!!

2 hours ago, Prairieboy said:

So the persons living in the "low rent" areas of the city fire up their charcoal cookers to make a meal and the BIB arrests them and everyone goes hungry? 

Don’t be daft. No one is getting arrested.

Oh yeah, who enforces this policy on the government?  A couple of weeks ago the local forest service were raking up and burning leaves on their own land.  So much for a role model 'eh? 

Surely not my mil following their lead, just last week. On the plus side she does recycle a lot of plastic which is less about “save the world “ as my wife says and more about the baht she can give the old people in the family.

On 2/1/2019 at 9:10 AM, overherebc said:

and can see further than the next bowl of Somtam.

????????

all  credibility  was  lost  right  there????

Considering the Thai experts thought up junk boats to push back the flood waters in 2011, I'm surprised some too Thai academic has not proposed just using thousands of Hatari Thai fans pointed at Cambodia and Myanmar to blow all the pollution away. 

Edited February 3, 20197 yr by Fex Bluse