BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Industry has boasted its push to enforce environmental preservation laws in its 6-month performance report for the 2022 fiscal year.

 

Industry Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit said his ministry recently issued 30 laws focusing on preserving the environment and promoting human safety. Of those 30 laws, 9 have already been promulgated and 21 are awaiting promulgation.

 

Notable among them is an amended statute of limitations for cases involving industrial factories that dump untreated water into the environment, from one year to five. The punishment for these violators is still a fine of 200,000 baht.

 

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Wanchai Phanomchai, director-general of the Department of Industrial Works, vowed to enforce laws on factories that violate the law, especially those that do not produce mandatory waste management reports.

 

There are currently about 70,000 factories in Thailand, only 15,000 of which submit regular reports to the department.

 

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13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Notable among them is an amended statute of limitations for cases involving industrial factories that dump untreated water into the environment, from one year to five. The punishment for these violators is still a fine of 200,000 baht.

Will that include the CP group who after filling their shrimp ponds with chemicals and then drain them into the local water source?

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Ain't this grand.

It's all about environmental protection and preservation.

 

 

Of course it is........

Total nonsense. Total lies. How often have we seen promises like this? This current administration is infamous for pledges, declarations, proclamations and promises. Few are even remembered, much less followed up upon two weeks later.
 
Feel free to cite some environmental promises that were followed up on, if you can. Otherwise, this is just raw lies, by men with a staggering level of incompetence and indifference toward their land, water and the common man.