Thailand Enforces Burning Ban to Combat PM2.5 Pollution

[LittleBear57]

Doing the school run in Sattahip yesterday found myself behind a Navy bus belching out black smoke, and when it accelerated you could barely see across the road. That is a government owned vehicle and they can't be bothered to do any rectification work on their own vehicles. It's Thailand, it's all talk and no action. Like the drink driving campaigns at New Year and Songkran all talk. We have to accept the poisonous air or simply move. It'll not change, there's no incentive for it.

 

[kickstart]

10 hours ago, Paul52 said:

Some but not as much as you think and suggest.  Check the wind direction and speed.  The burning that happens in Thailand will have a greater effect, and is where the Thais should focus, ie, clean their own house before they start complaining about their neighbours.

We have checked the wind direction ,for the past 2 months ,with the cool weather it has come from the East, from where Cambodia is, look at the weather map.

 

In my area, a big sugar cane area, most cane is cut by machine ,no burning before hand ,in fact farmers have been saying ,the que for a machine to cut their cane is long, the sugar mill is going to say open  longer ,to receive the cane, so farmers do not burn the cane ,and then  get cutters in ,famers are afraid the mill will shut before they can send they cane in. 

[freedomnow]

Is there any recent point in time it became a tipping point ?

 

You guys that have been here longer than 10-15 years was it not as bad back then ?