Chiang Mai continues to tackle air pollution

[rooster59]

Chiang Mai continues to tackle air pollution

Praphorn Praphornkul

 

 

CHIANG MAI, 21st January 2019 (NNT) - All sectors in Chiang Mai are stepping up their efforts to implement necessary measures to reduce smog, dust and forest fire in the northern province.

 

The Deputy Governor of Chiang Mai, Komsan Suwanampha, said Chiang Mai still strictly controls burning in all areas of the province, and violators will be strictly prosecuted.

 

All sectors have joined hands to solve the air pollution problem. Every district has been instructed to form a rapid response unit to patrol the local areas and to be on alert for hotspots and forest fire.

 

The Chiang Mai rapid-deployment rainmaking operation unit, which is scheduled to operate from February 20th to 28th, 2019, is ready to conduct rainmaking operations when the weather condition is suitable.

 

-- nnt 2019-02-24

[Thailand]

Throwing water in the air from fire engines is the solution,seriously?

 

 

 

[jonwilly]

I noticed the Turbine powered 'Dakotas' are now stationed at CM, they are used for spraying the clouds to help create rain.

 

john

[Liverpudlian]

I hear that pissing in the wind helps too !

[LomSak27]

30 minutes ago, Thailand said:

Throwing water in the air from fire engines is the solution,seriously?

 

It looks Good. It's a photo op.

 

TiT - This is Thailand

[worgeordie]

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

is ready to conduct rainmaking operations when the weather condition is suitable.

That must be when the smog is gone,and they can see where they are flying !

regards Worgeordie

[Lungstib]

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Chiang Mai continues to tackle air pollution

By widening roads, creating lots of vehicle mud tracks that will dry and end up as airborne dust, by adding more space for more big engined diesel vehicles that will sit spewing out toxic gas as the suburb residents sit for hours at traffic lights on their 40 mile a day transits to and from work. This is the answer?

[Crossy]

1 hour ago, Thailand said:

Throwing water in the air from fire engines is the solution,seriously?

It "worked" in Bangkok (sure it did), they do need the water spraying drones too mind ????

 

[cmsally]

When checking the pollution/dust levels, the reading on the map for Doi Lo is almost consistently ridiculously high (especially in the morning). Does anyone have any idea why this should be so ?

Chiang Rai is almost always lower which suggests the dust is not really field/scrub burning based (unless they have much better controls up there).

Does anyone in the relevant positions even bother to check these statistics?

[mok199]

I wonder if all these diesel pumper trucks are idling .

[Samuel Smith]

12 minutes ago, cmsally said:

 

Chiang Rai is almost always lower which suggests the dust is not really field/scrub burning based (unless they have much better controls up there).

 

FIRMS firemap shows fires in the hills

[jonwilly]

"I hear that pissing in the wind helps too !"

Only helps if your a Scouser.

 

john

[Chippy151]

In Bangkok they used trucks and drones.

Only trucks in Chiang Mai.

The drones make the difference. Lol.

[lannarebirth]

If the government stopped starting forest fires then they could stop pretending to put them out.

[spidermike007]

Although alot of the smoke is being caused by burning trash and cane fields, there is also alot being caused by diesel. Cars, trucks, pickups, power plants, etc. Unless a diesel vehicle is well maintained, the oil turns black quickly, and causes excessive pollution. This needs to be addressed, by the fabulously incompetent and indifferent authorities, and users of these vehicles that are spewing toxic smoke into the air, need to be dealt with severely. The lax attitude is part of the problem.

 

 

 

 

[khunpa]

3 hours ago, Lungstib said:

By widening roads, creating lots of vehicle mud tracks that will dry and end up as airborne dust, by adding more space for more big engined diesel vehicles that will sit spewing out toxic gas as the suburb residents sit for hours at traffic lights on their 40 mile a day transits to and from work. This is the answer?

Agree, they should look at the traffic lights.

 

10 min. red and 20 secs. green, is really annoying ????

[tlandtday]

I think it is similar to the garbage collection scheme.  If it is not recognized it does not exist.  Thailand is on a big slide downwards and it will continue its road to an India like environment.

[tlandtday]

Just now, tlandtday said:

I think it is similar to the garbage collection scheme.  If it is not recognized it does not exist.  Little if anything will be done except for some window dressing.  Ridiculous shooting water in the air.  Thailand is on a big slide downwards and it will continue its road to an India like environment.

 

[malibukid]

6 minutes ago, tlandtday said:

I think it is similar to the garbage collection scheme.  If it is not recognized it does not exist.  Thailand is on a big slide downwards and it will continue its road to an India like environment.

and please deposit 800K

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, Thailand said:

Throwing water in the air from fire engines is the solution,seriously?

 

 

 

And they will continue to fight the pollution if that's all they can think of doing.

Unfortunately yes they are serious, spraying water seems to be all they can do !

God help Thailand.

[Emdog]

"continues to tackle"? I must have missed when they started so that they could continue

[mehrdad]

Helppp !!!Here in chiang Rai we are buried in dust and smoke 

[AlfonsV]

And remove the useless blue buses with 0 up to 4 passengers which only contribute to traffic jam

[MrJohnson]

When i lived in CM in 1997-98 it was being tackled then!

[Samuel Smith]

21 minutes ago, AlfonsV said:

And remove the useless blue buses with 0 up to 4 passengers which only contribute to traffic jam

NO! Remove 30% of the red songteau & buy more blue buses!

[None The Wiser]

so much pollution in Thailand.

 

much worse than Ghana.

[tabarin]

6 hours ago, khunpa said:

Agree, they should look at the traffic lights.

 

10 min. red and 20 secs. green, is really annoying ????

So true, the width of the roads is not the problem at all. It is the mass congestion at traffic lights and the weird way they work.
More than half of the duration of my commute to the city from Sansai is because of the traffic lights and not as much about how busy it is on the road.

They should been building under- and over passes instead, oh no forget it, the one in Pattaya took years to complete.

[Samuel Smith]

2 minutes ago, tabarin said:

So true, the width of the roads is not the problem at all. It is the mass congestion at traffic lights and the weird way they work.
More than half of the duration of my commute to the city from Sansai is because of the traffic lights and not as much about how busy it is on the road.

They should been building under- and over passes instead.

The double traffic lights where middle ring road & 118 meet the road to Sansai is a clusterFk.  The timings & order of flow is just wrong!

[tabarin]

4 minutes ago, Samuel Smith said:

The double traffic lights where middle ring road & 118 meet the road to Sansai is a clusterFk.  The timings & order of flow is just wrong!

Actually it is even 3 in my case, first to turn right and then right after have another one on red, to then get stuck again at the central festival one.
The way back home is only 1-2 luckily.

[amexpat]

It would help immensely if they would ticket the *&^#@ who pull into the intersection when the light is already red and the intersection is clogged. Sometime the light cycles and only 3-4 cars get through.  Cameras? 

 

Next to the ones who cut off emergency vehicles or refuse to yield, those are the ones I nominate for a special place in buddhist hell.