"You can't live in Thailand" - country becomes hub of "Black Snow"

[webfact]

"You can't live in Thailand" - country becomes hub of "Black Snow"

 

 

A furious resident at a housing estate in Chonburi has gone online to tell the world that no one can live in Thailand any more. 

 

She is livid after making complaints about farmers burning sugar cane fields.

 

She was told that the problem was minor, then the local authority in Na Pa, Muang district did nothing. 

 

Now she has posted pictures of her estate including cars covered in what she called "black snow".

 

"Popeye Pornchaitanapum" vented on Facebook as reported by Daily News.

 

She said: "Why do we have to put up with this every day? We've told the municipal authority and they said it was a minor matter and left it at that.

 

Referring to her pictures she said: "Does that look like a minor matter?

 

"This country has black snow. Share the story and tell the world - you can't live in Thailand". 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[GarryP]

Burning sugar cane is illegal. She should report the municipal authority for negligence of duty to someone higher up the food chain.  

[Puchaiyank]

Feel your pain.  Smoke and ash frequently interrupt an otherwise peaceful existence in Udon Thani...people suffering from allergies are made to suffer unnecessarily.

[happy chappie]

Laziness as usual from government workers who's sole aim in life is to get a job that you can do nothing and fob off those people who they are meant to serve.they are only in the job for healthcare,pension and of course the brown envelopes and are probably not qualified for their position.freeloading bummers at best.land around me is lit up like napalm has been dropped and no one gives a toss.anyway another day of pool cleaning black snow out of it.in fact it's another day of wild soi dogs,black snow,killer roads and drivers,high prices of goods and the thought of how am I going to sort out my retirement visa.i think I'll just stay in bed.

[happy chappie]

11 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Burning sugar cane is illegal. She should report the municipal authority for negligence of duty to someone higher up the food chain.  

Pissing into the wind with that one mate.

[neeray]

Popeye should find herself a political party that is committed to dealing with this ongoing problem and then rally all her friends, community, network, digital skills and all of Thailand together to support that party. And if they win, hold a gun to their head to make sure that they fulfill their election promise.

 

Move fast Popeye, the election is coming soon (maybe).

[Mavideol]

2 minutes ago, happy chappie said:

Laziness as usual from government workers who's sole aim in life is to get a job that you can do nothing and fob off those people who they are meant to serve.they are only in the job for healthcare,pension and of course the brown envelopes and are probably not qualified for their position.freeloading bummers at best.land around me is lit up like napalm has been dropped and no one gives a toss.anyway another day of pool cleaning black snow out of it.in fact it's another day of wild soi dogs,black snow,killer roads and drivers,high prices of goods and the thought of how am I going to sort out my retirement visa.i think I'll just stay in bed.

I feel for you and understand the situation, unfortunately the government works main goal is to get a job and all the advantages that brings to them and their family their was was Never to get WORK,

[sammieuk1]

Don't put that Charlie up your nose ????

[fruitman]

Where is mr Prayuth to protect the thai citizens?? His policemen won't stop those farmers....

[NCC1701A]

23 minutes ago, webfact said:

"Popeye Pornchaitanapum" vented on Facebook as reported by Daily News.

i wonder how she is holding up under torture this morning?

[Vacuum]

26 minutes ago, happy chappie said:

Pissing into the wind with that one mate.

Perhaps not if she publish it on fakebook.

 

Edit; just noticed that she already did.

[Cadbury]

23 minutes ago, fruitman said:

Where is mr Prayuth to protect the thai citizens?? His policemen won't stop those farmers....

Popeye should get in touch with Pinocchio directly on his hotline regarding this matter. He will fix it just like he fixes everything else like beach chairs, pavements, lotteries and corruption in the civil service.

[newatthis]

16 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

Perhaps not if she publish it on fakebook.

 

Edit; just noticed that she already did.

Should be good for a defamation case!

[PJPom]

Used to be the norm in Queensland until they found that leaving the trash on the field cut down the water required and improved the yield.

I wonder if anyone would listen, oh I forgot, TIT 

[ratcatcher]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

"You can't live in Thailand" - country becomes hub of "Black Snow"

"You can't live in some parts of Thailand due to illegal, uncontrolled,burning of sugar cane and rice stubble." Which causes black snow.

There are also many areas where the air is, fortunately, still clean and breathable.

[colinneil]

6 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

"You can't live in some parts of Thailand due to illegal, uncontrolled,burning of sugar cane and rice stubble." Which causes black snow.

There are also many areas where the air is, fortunately, still clean and breathable.

You say there are areas where there is clean air...... Enlighten us please.

At this very moment here in our out of the way Issan village i cannot breath outside.

There are 2 fires burning here, 1 of them is burning rubber or something similar, the air is toxic.

[jak2002003]

9 minutes ago, colinneil said:

You say there are areas where there is clean air...... Enlighten us please.

At this very moment here in our out of the way Issan village i cannot breath outside.

There are 2 fires burning here, 1 of them is burning rubber or something similar, the air is toxic.

You are right... this place is getting worse by the year.

 

Now in Chiang Mai the sky looks clear and bright, no smell of burning in the air, but everything get covered in brown / black dust every day... even inside the house with the doors closed.  Clean the kitchen worktop, or car, and a few hours later the dust is back.  We are all breathing this stuff in every day and night!!

 

When the real burning gets underway its going to be really bad.

 

 

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[bdenner]

1 hour ago, Puchaiyank said:

Feel your pain.  Smoke and ash frequently interrupt an otherwise peaceful existence in Udon Thani...people suffering from allergies are made to suffer unnecessarily.

I live 80km east of Udon and surrounded by sugar cane which was once rice paddies. The annual burning of rice stubble was bad enough but now it's out of control. Don't hang out your washing and more importantly be careful of the 50/60 year old, under powered, heavily overloaded, Isuzu trucks that find their way out of retirement at this time of year!

[Speedo1968]

The excuse for burning used to be, to get rid of snakes before the cutters went in ...

 

As I visited numerous farms on business over very many years ( not sugarcane farms ), I often encountered snakes and, was once shown a large python which the workers had caught and were going to sell for meat in the market.

 

See the web link below for some interesting general info about sugarcane.

 

https://sites.google.com/site/sugarcanepm/pre-harvest-burning

[stanleycoin]

2 hours ago, GarryP said:

Burning sugar cane is illegal. She should report the municipal authority for negligence of duty to someone higher up the food chain.  

Sangsom comes from sugar cane. so its all fine by me. 

 

Carry on burning , i say 

 

 

[Vacuum]

39 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

You are right... this place is getting worse by the year.

 

Now in Chiang Mai the sky looks clear and bright, no smell of burning in the air, but everything get covered in brown / black dust every day... even inside the house with the doors closed.  Clean the kitchen worktop, or car, and a few hours later the dust is back.  We are all breathing this stuff in every day and night!!

 

When the real burning gets underway its going to be really bad.

 

 

 You must remember that CM isn't BKK, hence the government don't care.

[KayneKayes]

A blatant exaggeration: 

"You can't live in Thailand"……

This news item is related to the province of Chonburi (and probably confined to only certain parts of the province), out of the total 76 provinces in Thailand.

[Rimmer]

Off topic removed

[owl sees all]

It is the weather. A decent bit of wind or a few downpours would sort it.

 

Who exactly is in charge of the Thai weather forecasting?

 

Too easy to blame the farmers.

[chainarong]

Until there's a change of culture and a understanding of the harm all this burning off does, burning off will continue, it all boils down to education . 

[tlandtday]

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

You say there are areas where there is clean air...... Enlighten us please.

At this very moment here in our out of the way Issan village i cannot breath outside.

There are 2 fires burning here, 1 of them is burning rubber or something similar, the air is toxic.

The only area left in Thailand with decent year round air quality is the south around Phuket.  The extended rains help a lot but they don't have the cars or the industry and much less burning. Occasional smoke can drift from Malaysia/Indonesia but at at least you don't have to worry about factory pollution like the bkok/chonburi/rayong area.

[DrTuner]

Sugar cane burning? No such thing, that's just diesel exhaust, stick with the official truth only, sssssssssshhhhhhhhh!

[connda]

Perfect example of why all the banter in Bangkok about fixing air pollution problems is nothing but contributing to the problem by adding copious amounts of hot air.

[djayz]

5 hours ago, GarryP said:

Burning sugar cane is illegal. She should report the municipal authority for negligence of duty to someone higher up the food chain.  

Do you honestly believe anybody higher up gives a rat's @rse?