Deputy PM pledges tighter measures and law enforcement action to solve annual air pollution issues in Thailand

[snoop1130]

PHOTO: Prachachat

 

Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan ordered the Center for Air Pollution Mitigation (CAPM) to push a plan for a PM(Particulate Matter)2.5 dust particle solution as a national agenda and use law enforcement against potential major sources of the dust.

 

Deputy Spokesperson Kongcheep Tantravanich stated to the press that the order of the Deputy Prime Minister was due to the country’s current dry weather with stabilizing winds that may cause the accumulation of dust particles from cross-border smog, wildfires, car pollution, open burning of industrial waste, etc.

 

The Air Quality Index in some areas across the country was found to exceed the Thai standard and was starting to affect people’s health especially risk groups, including the elderly, young children, pregnant women, and people with underlying diseases.

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/12/06/deputy-pm-pledges-tighter-measures-and-law-enforcement-action-to-solve-annual-air-pollution-issues-in-thailand/

 

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[law ling]

Haha. Read this every year.

But, good luck anyway.

[Tarteso]

???? ???? ???? 

Edited December 6, 2021 by Tarteso

[garyk]

The Air Quality Index in some areas across the country was found to exceed the Thai standard and was starting to affect people’s health.

 

The joke of the day, It is killing thousands yearly and reduced the life expectancy by years. 

 

[Thailand]

Er, stop the burning perhaps?

[shadowofacloud]

Ah, clear skies finally. ????

[soi3eddie]

As Greta <deleted>berg would say; Blah, Blah, Blah...

[4MyEgo]

As if the smoke wasn't bad enough in our village this morning when I looked out of the window, then I couldn't believe what I was seeing, a neighbour two doors up burning a heap of leaves and whatever else was on that pile, smoke billowing into the sky.

 

Guess he just can't get enough of it, stupid dumb <deleted>.

[JCauto]

This cannot possibly succeed. They didn't form a committee!

[scorecard]

11 hours ago, Thailand said:

Er, stop the burning perhaps?

 

Well yes, but just a moment please we need to have a committee and an investigation to find the cause first. Then that committee will collapse and another committee needed.

 

Never mind, we'll all be dead before any result...

[Benmart]

How many years has he been squatting as PM?

[klauskunkel]

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Deputy PM pledges tighter measures and law enforcement action to solve annual air pollution issues in Thailand

'Tis the Season for the annual PM sentiment..., again.

(time flies when you're coughing up your lung)

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan ordered the Center for Air Pollution Mitigation (CAPM) to push a plan for a PM(Particulate Matter)2.5 dust particle solution as a national agenda and use law enforcement against potential major sources of the dust.

More talk and no action...

Order governors to stamp it out, or get out of office.

This could be stopped overnight if they wanted to.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, JCauto said:

This cannot possibly succeed. They didn't form a committee!

Goes to show how NOT serious they are then.

[actonion]

As we crossed the water on the Ferry to Koh Chang  i saw a thick Yellowy colour   Smog  looking out to Sea,    I  mentioned this to the Hotel owner on the     Island who said  ..." its morning  Mist "  lol  .....What  at 2pm .....

[mfd101]

59 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

More talk and no action...

Order governors to stamp it out, or get out of office.

This could be stopped overnight if they wanted to.

Public executions could be effective: of (1) incompetent & lazy officials at all levels, and (2) the burners (mostly farmers/peasants). Nothing like a lineup at dawn to produce results.

[Tich]

They say this every year, but nothing changes.. standard !

[newnative]

    Laughable, as always.   The mere fact that there are 'ANNUAL air pollution issues' is the best example of the ANNUAL lip service 'pledge' we get to this never improved, never solved issue. 

[outsider]

The time of the year again where these mutts roll out the usual empty promises, pledges and vows.

[outsider]

On 12/6/2021 at 10:29 PM, 4MyEgo said:

As if the smoke wasn't bad enough in our village this morning when I looked out of the window, then I couldn't believe what I was seeing, a neighbour two doors up burning a heap of leaves and whatever else was on that pile, smoke billowing into the sky.

 

Guess he just can't get enough of it, stupid dumb <deleted>.

The mentality of these gits is 'my little heap isn't going to make any difference'. The problem is, these gits don't realise every dumb fk on the land thinks like he does. One small heap really doesn't make a difference, but 100,000 small fires do! Why do these idiots not understand something as simple as this?

 

[Darkside Gray]

Really, honestly? NNaaaw

[michael888]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

due to the country’s current dry weather with stabilizing winds that may cause the accumulation of dust particles from cross-border smog, wildfires, car pollution, open burning of industrial waste, etc.

DUE TO AGRI BURNING OF SUGAR CANE AND RICE FIELDS!  Does anyone still doubt the cause.  why do they keep lying about it?

[Burma Bill]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

use law enforcement against potential major sources of the dust.

So, is he going to take Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia to International courts????

[kidneyw]

He must have checked last year's calendar.

[Mr Meeseeks]

It's like trying to tell children to stop picking their nose. 

[chilly07]

Risk groups the same as Covid?

High pressure and winds from the north? Don't believe we are into full unpoliced burning season yet?

Bad air from plague country???

[rudi49jr]

14 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

As if the smoke wasn't bad enough in our village this morning when I looked out of the window, then I couldn't believe what I was seeing, a neighbour two doors up burning a heap of leaves and whatever else was on that pile, smoke billowing into the sky.

 

Guess he just can't get enough of it, stupid dumb fk.

I had a neighbor in CM, would rake together all the leaves and stuff in the garden every afternoon and then burn it, even if the air quality was already abysmal. And not burning like going up in flames and it’s gone in 5 minutes, but just smoldering and producing lots of smoke for hours on end. I could see fires like that all over the neighborhood every afternoon. 
I came to the conclusion that Thais, especially up north, just love to burn stuff. 

[cape]

19 hours ago, garyk said:

It is killing thousands yearly and reduced the life expectancy by years. 

 

Smog from burning crops kills more than covid. 

[Golden Triangle]

They trot this rubbish out every year but do sweet bog all to prevent it, so the locals and expats just carry on as normal, someone I know has a fire a few times a week, I've told him not to but he doesn't listen, one day someone will decide they've had enough of the farang having a fire in his garden and dob him in.

[4MyEgo]

49 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

I had a neighbor in CM, would rake together all the leaves and stuff in the garden every afternoon and then burn it, even if the air quality was already abysmal. And not burning like going up in flames and it’s gone in 5 minutes, but just smoldering and producing lots of smoke for hours on end. I could see fires like that all over the neighborhood every afternoon. 
I came to the conclusion that Thais, especially up north, just love to burn stuff. 

Yep, as I drive the kids to school every morning leaving at 7.15am, the air is filled with smoke and driving through the village is like eerie and smoke effects me at the best of times, so windows are up until I hit the main road and the open fields make it look a little, just a little better and then I put two windows slightly down to get some air in as I am not into A/C unless really hot, and not long after I put those two windows slightly down, I have to put them up as my throat feels as if it has been coated with something and I start to cough.

 

Sad really, but part and parcel of living somewhere else.