PTT launches 'save the world' Line sticker campaign just days after causing oil spill

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PTT launches 'save the world' Line sticker campaign just days after causing oil spill



BANGKOK: -- Thai smartphone users were notified today that they could download a new set of environmental awareness stickers from PTT, the same company responsible for the massive oil spill in Koh Samet.

The stickers, which feature PPT Technobots, were released as the public’s anger over the company's slow cleanup operation at Phrao Bay reached a fever point on social media.

Netizens on Facebook and Twitter have been slamming the country’s biggest petroleum conglomerate for the remarkably insensitive timing of the campaign. [read more...]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2013/07/30/ptt-launches-save-world-line-sticker-campaign-just-days-after-causing-oil-spill


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2013-07-31

[JetsetBkk]

Now that is just a dämn cheek.

[longtom]

i am really happy to hear they know their priorities.

[jaidam]

We really need a "dislike" button for stories as asinine as this.

[GentlemanJim]

I think Thailand should forget all about trying to get various parts of it declared as World Heritage sites, instead, I think they should now lobby hard for Thailand to be given it's own independent status as the tenth planet in the solar system (yes I maintain that Pluto is still a planet!), as it consistently comes out with things that are so far off this planet it is deserving of the recognition.

[dominique355]

Save the World ... or save face?

Pathetic is how even PT ministers try to cover up PTT's mess and convince locals not to sue PTT. Don't forget, Thaksin is a major shareholder of PTT.

It all makes sense, right?

[ChrisY1]

This is a really clever look .....what is wrong with these people??......Just shows the level of intelligence some of these people have

[bigbamboo]

They could just change it to 'Save The World From PTT.'

[rametindallas]

Instead of a 'Save the World' campaign, PTT should be taking out full-page ads in Thailand and around the World apologizing to the Thai People, the Thai tourist industry, the foreign and domestic tourists, those in the fishing industry, the people in neighboring countries and everywhere this pollution has caused, and eventually will cause, environmental damage.

PTT was so ready to 'Save the World' that it only has 200 meters of oil boom. Another example of lip service over action and looks over substance. How many days is it and Plodprasop if just now admitting Thailand doesn't have the resources to fix this mess. The lies continue and all in authority are so incompetent that the best they can do is HOPE it is not too bad. The PM should cut her Africa trip and supervise the situation so it doesn't get any worse than it hast to. Too bad this government has its priorities so skewed. It is disgusting how little they (seem) care for the environment and those who depend on it.

Edited July 31, 2013 by rametindallas

[doremifasol]

"Save the World"? Slow down PTT, you're not that good!

Can you start with "Save Koh Samed"?

[4evermaat]

This is just the TV topic ripe for trol....rhetorical replies.

[Neilly]

The PM should cut her Africa trip and supervise the situation so it doesn't get any worse than it hast to.

Nah, that won't happen, she'd get her Burberry wellies dirty

[Chicog]

Shows how much their marketing and PR departments are in touch with the world (and their own company!).

Bunch of idiots.

[noitom]

Leave it to the detached aloof Thai marketing people at PTT to launch their campaign with absolute indifference to the spill. This spill was supposed to be "nailed" by the Thai navy as we read in this pages the day it was discovered. Not to worry was all the rage. This catastrophe on a global scale is now turning in to a typical Thai circus maximus.

[canardo]

Is it just me, or hasn't there be a new satellite photo for 2 days already? Latest I found is the attached, wonder how things look like now from above...

Anybody?

[Thai at Heart]

That's thinking big.

Just "save Rayong" will do.

[ABCer]

How typically Thai! The cynicism is striking!

Do what you want. Piss on the feelings of people. Shit in your own home.

Print a pretty catching slogan on a cheap shopping bag and distribute it free.

The 'elite' have been doing whatever they wanted for so long and keeping their ranks closed so tightly,

they have reached the top stage of mental degradation.

The funny part is they really think they are smart!

But the World is watching the obvious signs of inbreeding - moral and mental degradation.

Edited July 31, 2013 by ABCer

[jaidam]

The PM should cut her Africa trip and supervise the situation so it doesn't get any worse than it hast to.

Nah, that won't happen, she'd get her Burberry wellies dirty

To be fair she did say soon after the photo was taken that the boots were just copies(while "her" govt was launching another crackdown on IP rights).

[wealth]

the scapegoat which will be decided on shortly will be in big problems. After that business as usual.

[hookedondhamma]

This article is virtual shark bait. Lol

[jbrain]

Are they gonna sell the stickers to pay for the lawsuit ?

[jbrain]

Are they gonna sell the stickers to pay for the lawsuit ?

[stevehaigh]

i am really happy to hear they know their priorities.

i guess making online stickers is a lot easier than cleaning up oil spils

in other news, Halliburton just accepted responsibly for crappy concrete on the Deepwater Horizons rig that spilled millions of gallons into the gulf of Mexico a couple of years back and and then covered up the information from investigators. The fine was a whopping $200,000!

[Dukeleto]

Ceasar's Ghost! Has this country no limits to its incompetency! Obviously not.

[Wavefloater]

How insulting and offensive of PTT to do this. F***ing stickers for god's sake!!! And they announce them in the midst of all this crap?

PTT should be boycotted until they grow up and face the facts.

Edited August 1, 2013 by Wavefloater

[apalink_thailand]

How to placate a sheep? Divert their attention. Easy.

[nosatisfaction]

Now that is just a dämn cheek.

Maybe PTT should consider changing Communication Comp?

[nosatisfaction]

How insulting and offensive of PTT to do this. F***ing stickers for god's sake!!! And they announce them in the midst of all this crap?

PTT should be boycotted until they grow up and face the facts.

So should: BP, Shell, ex-Texaco, all the others I don't mention including DOW Chemical, Monsanto , etc,etc.

TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[2169]

Save the World ... or save face?

Pathetic is how even PT ministers try to cover up PTT's mess and convince locals not to sue PTT. Don't forget, Thaksin is a major shareholder of PTT.

It all makes sense, right?

This is just so out of line, that's why the gasoline prices just go up, taksin and the hole family just will bring Thailand down because for robbing it blind, what a greedy people

[wealth]

Divers find unidentifiable matter under the sea

"We found that some of the coral near the beach had also turned black," Achit Sitthichai, a marine expert from Marine and Coastal Resource Conservation Centre Division 1 in Rayong, said after a 30-minute dive to study the changes caused by the oil spill. He also found black sediments under the seabed in the shallow zone.

"I cannot explain the cause of this change. We will have to wait for experts to identify these black objects and the change in the coral reef's colour," he added.

http://nationmultimedia.com/national/Divers-find-unidentifiable-matter-under-the-sea-30211579.html

-- The Nation August 1

Edited August 1, 2013 by wealth