Rayong oil spill: Recipients to return 'Green' award back to PTT

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Recipients to return 'Green' award back to PTT
BUDSARAKHAM SINLAPALAVAN
THE NATION

BANGKOK: -- SOME OF THE country's leading environmentalists plan to return their Green Globe Awards to state energy firm PTT today to protest against the company's handling of an oil leak from a PTT Global Chemical offshore platform near Rayong on Saturday.

Thaithong Thongthai, who received the award from the energy giant in 2003, created the Facebook page "Return Green Globe Award to PTT" on Wednesday.

In a post on the page, he said he would be ashamed to be used as a tool by the firm to promote what he called its false love for the environment. Therefore, he said, he would today return the trophy to the firm today.

Also on Facebook, other award-winning environmentalists declared their intention to return their awards. They include Dr Rungsrit Kanjanavanit, who posted that he would return his 2007 Green Globe Award to PTT today.

Rungsrit, a lecturer at Chiang Mai University's medical school, posted on his Facebook page that he refused to be part of PTT's green propaganda.

"CSR [corporate social responsibility programmes] are just for the sake of PR, not for delivering real solutions, so decided to return the award to PTT," he told The Nation.

The decision to hand back the award was entirely his own, he said.

He apologised to former prime minister Anand Panyarachun and the PTT Green Globe award committee, which backed him to receive |the award, saying they had done some good work because some groups |benefited from receiving the award.

While he had decided to hand back the award to PTT, he said he was reluctant to over-dramatise the issue, which he said would serve no purpose other than making people involved look bad.

Acharawadee Buaklee, former editor of the now-defunct Ponlamuang Nua newspaper, who received the Green Globe Award |in 2007 in the mass-media category, posted on her Facebook page that |she agreed with Rungsrit's reasoning and would also return her award to PTT.

She said she would send her award to Rungsrit so that he could return it along with his own.

-- The Nation 2013-08-02

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Sponsoring green awards doesn't make your company green.... "Pong" PTT!!! very poor job of protecting the environment before the spill, during the spill and after. When the President packs up and sends all the teams home before the job is done just shows the typical lack of accountability and responsibility as well as any type of capability, ... and some idiot politician telling affected parties not to sue PTT? the whole country should sue them to set a clear example and stance that this russian roulette game they play with our environment is totally unacceptable ... but nothing will happen, swept under the rug as usual, probably some poor underling will be blamed as the scapegoat and it wont be PTT's fault at all. Perhaps the President will come out crying and making statements like "I just want my life back" like that idiot from BP profit before people.. TIT (and the rest of the world)

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CSR projects are also influential in reducing insurance costs also.....