Daily News Thai Caption: Utterly beautiful!

 

Natural resources and environment minister Varawut Silpa-archa and his entourage took a boat from Koh Samui to an area nearer Koh Phangan where Chevron have a drilling platform.

 

The oil company have installed an artificial reef at the site that is helping the area recover its natural marine beauty.

 

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The minister was going to dive himself but high waves scuppered this but divers were still able to inspect the facility, a first of its kind in Thailand, reported Daily News.

 

They found large amounts of coral and fish as well as turtles. 

 

The press called it utterly beautiful. The minister hailed the project's success. 

 

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It was certainly better than a while back when the minister personally intervened to throw a couple of foreigners out of Thailand for filming themselves with sea slugs off Phangan. 

 

A Hungarian called Attila was deported and an Italian appeared in court too in a story that caused much debate at the time. 

 

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Is this made out of plastic?  What chemicals?  What if one fish eats a part and then eventually the largest fish eats every other fish that ate this as well?

 

OMG......natural is the only way.    unless you can make big money!!!  all in the name of the environment!! 

Have Chevron had any oil spills yet ? . or is it only 

Exxon, Shell , fingers crossed. put anything under

the Ocean, old tanks ,ships, legs of the oil rigs ,they

will soon be populated by hard and soft corals,and

other invertebrates which will in turn attract fish .

Ocean life does it themselves. and been well out of

the way of tourists will thrive.

regards Worgeordie

A screen Wallpaper saves you all the hussle ...

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

The oil company have installed an artificial reef at the site that is helping the area recover its natural marine beauty.

They are not strictly speaking artificial reefs.

There are 7 "retired idle platform jackets" that have had their topsides removed and cut from their former locations in the gulf of Thailand and towed to Surat Thani.

It is more cost efficient for Chevron to dump these structures than to pay for full recovery as the jackets are not reusable.

 

You can read more about the "rigs to reefs project" here and here.

 

And you can read a case study about the project here that explains everything in more detail.

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

They found large amounts of coral and fish as well as turtles. 

We have turtles here at Koh Samui and we did not have to build an artificial reef.

 

 

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environment damaging foreigners

whether damaging the environment or tarnishing the image, Thai officials excel at both activities far more than foreigners

4 hours ago, webfact said:

It was certainly better than a while back when the minister personally intervened to throw a couple of foreigners out of Thailand for filming themselves with sea slugs off Phangan.

Just got to stop those naughty tourist boats with Thai Captains throwing out their anchors on the reefs and ripping them to pieces.

Somehow, I don't think the rubbish I see on every Thai roadside was dumped there by malign foreigners.

An artificial reef? More like the oil company's lipstick on a pig.

"Artificial reef is really beautiful - much better than environment damaging foreigners"

 

Bad bad foreigners.

 

Of course, Thais have never ever done anything to damange any natural envionments in Thailand.

Extremely strange headline. It makes it seem as if this is something the minister said, when it's just something made up by the article writer.

6 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

What if one fish eats a part and then eventually the largest fish eats every other fish that ate this as well?

Really? You can't answer that question ????????

Beautiful  project- Amazing  Thailand-

Thais are the most environmentally sensitive people in the world.  They care.

Please, we should all follow their lead and do the right thing for the future of the world.

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12 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Thais are the most environmentally sensitive people in the world.  They care.

Please, we should all follow their lead and do the right thing for the future of the world.

????

21 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

Is this made out of plastic?  What chemicals?  What if one fish eats a part and then eventually the largest fish eats every other fish that ate this as well?

 

OMG......natural is the only way.    unless you can make big money!!!  all in the name of the environment!! 

You are misunderstanding Artificial reef i.e. sink a ship it will become an 'artificial' reef. 

Me thinks the Aircraft carrier would make a velly good reef. init.