NEB focuses efforts to fight smog

[rooster59]

Praphorn Praphornkul

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The National Environment Board (NEB) has concluded that hot spots, posing a risk of forest fires, were fewer last year.

 

Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan chaired the meeting of the NEB, attended by Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Varawut Silapa-archa and representatives of relevant agencies. The gathering acknowledged that 428,113 tons of electronic waste was collected and managed in 2020, that the Royal Thai Police Office is pushing through ministerial laws and regulations on air polluting automobiles, that funding was allocated to 69 projects via the Environmental Fund and that efforts to reduce forest fires and smog were able to reduce the number of hot spots in 2020 satisfactorily.

 

Furthermore, the board approved an Environmental Impact Assessment for the Chalongrat-Nakhon Nayok-Saraburi expressway, presented by the Expressway Authority of Thailand, and assessments for three future highways, to be constructed in the Sam Kok, Khlong Luang and Muang areas of Pathumthani, to facilitate travel to the provinces to the east and west.

 

DPM Gen Prawit called for all approved efforts to be expedited, with a focus on public benefit, and asked that efforts to fight smog and air pollution be elevated, alongside public awareness campaigns.

 

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[PatOngo]

6 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan chaired the meeting of the NEB

He's looking well, not a grey hair on his head, well done, ol' fella! Nice watch! ????

[YetAnother]

9 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

DPM Gen Prawit called for all approved efforts to be expedited, with a focus on public benefit,

Land Of Smoke-and-mirrors; when everything is said and done, there is a lot more said than done

[connda]

14 hours ago, rooster59 said:

and that efforts to reduce forest fires and smog were able to reduce the number of hot spots in 2020 satisfactorily.

What happened.  You take the matches and lighters away from the locals setting the fires to prep the forests for mushroom season?