Thick PM2.5 to Continue until Dec 17

 

 

BANGKOK, Dec 14 (TNA) – Heavy air pollution from fine dust will continue until Dec 17 due to stagnant air, according to the permanent secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office. 

 

Teerapat Prayoonsit, permanent secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office in his capacity as head of a sub-committee on air pollution solutions communications, said stagnant air let particulate matters 2.5 micrometers and less in diameter (PM2.5) to accumulate especially in Bangkok. 

 

He asked the Pollution Control Department, the Land Transport Department and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to stop the vehicles, especially trucks with diesel engines, that emitted black smoke. 

 

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'Teerapat Prayoonsit, permanent secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office in his capacity as head of a sub-committee on air pollution solutions communications...'

 

In an utterly inappropriate mask which won't protect him from anything whatsoever.

'He asked the Pollution Control Department, the Land Transport Department and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to stop the vehicles, especially trucks with diesel engines, that emitted black smoke.'

 

YES PLEASE.

27 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Heavy air pollution from fine dust will continue until Dec 17 due to stagnant air, according to the permanent secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office

is there a single active brain cell in these people ?; last year , here in chiang rai, it went on into May

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Heavy air pollution from fine dust will continue until Dec 17 due to stagnant air

 

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He asked the Pollution Control Department, the Land Transport Department and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to stop the vehicles, especially trucks with diesel engines, that emitted black smoke. 

 

Fair enough the modified pick up trucks are bad but this is the cause of the extreme air pollution in Hua Hin? Why is it only during field burning season that we see such hazardous levels of 2.5 PM pollution?  ????

 

Seems they are absolutely not serious about tackling the air pollution debacle that inundates the entire country north of Sarat Thani every year and more interested in shifting the blame to "stagnant air" or the "big trucks on outer ring road in Bangkok". 

 

It's seems the blatant violation of a what should be considered a basic human right is allowed in favor of protecting the profits of a few sino-thai multi-national agro business conglomerates. ????

 

 

In any sane and normal country this fool and all his colleagues would be sacked immediately.  A national emergency would be declared and crop farmers who burned locked away.  Vehicles would be impounded or scrapped.  Factories audited... in any sane country.

 

The worst smog I have experienced out in Nonthaburi for 6+ years - this was the view this morning, my son went to school coughing and spluttering!!!! These idiots in charge 'know not what they do'.  And why is this!? Because the people making the decisions (not just here - but in every walk of life across Thailand) are not there based on merit or hard work or know-how or ability. They are there based on nepotism, greed and corruption. When will Thailand wake up and realize that the scale of greed and corruption is strangling this country - it is like a cancer.

I'm bemused by 'stagnant air'.

That's air which has no life, air which doesn't move?

It's too early in the day for this. Time for coffee ????

Yes under a genuine gov these people burning would be arrested and it's not as if the army are busy with all those cadets doing nothing. Purely a very bad PM

 

Thailand will loose billions of dollars because of this short sighted mad greed.  Foreigners such as ourselves will leave uprooting millions and millions in unspent future living.  Lots medical tourism revenue.  Soil erosion.  Increased cancer rates.  Lost tourism.  Lost productivity from a sick workforce.  etc..  Its hard to fully realise how crazy this is.

 

Teerapat Prayoonsit, permanent secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office in his capacity as head of a sub-committee on air pollution solutions communications. 

 

Has there ever been an office, or a title that was less effective, and less impressive, than the title suggests? 

 

Has there ever been a solution proposed? Have there been any smart ideas floated? Does this guy, or this office do anything except suck up monetary budgets?