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Haze descends on Phuket
Phuket Gazette -

PHUKET: Air quality levels are rapidly dropping in Phuket as an Indonesian haze again sweeps across the island.

“Air pollution levels are likely to go beyond what is deemed safe for the public, 120 micrograms per cubic meter for a 24-hour period,” Pornsri Suthanarak, director of the Regional Environmental Office, told the Phuket Gazette this morning.

Over the last measured 24-hour period, from yesterday morning to this morning, the average pollution level was 18 micrograms per cubic meter.

Read More: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Haze-descends-Phuket/62073?desktopversion

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-- Phuket Gazette 2015-10-03

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Yes, the visibilty is quite bad this morning. Past few days were clear, surprised when I looked out over Kata this morning to see so much haze. And it seems to be worse now, 4 hours later.

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What is the government supposed to do to protect its citizen from other countries' air?

World's biggest dome?

World's biggest fans, so that they can blow the stuff back to where it's coming from.

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What is the government supposed to do to protect its citizen from other countries' air?

World's biggest dome?

World's biggest fans, so that they can blow the stuff back to where it's coming from.

Vestas already got the contract to build some MW sized fans. This time Thailand is ahead of the game.

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In Chiang Mai they sprayed water into the air, I wasn't there but no reports of it being effective.

Perhaps not possible in Phuket as water is scarce, just saying.

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What is the government supposed to do to protect its citizen from other countries' air?

World's biggest dome?

Can hear you have never been to CM - The smog in CM comes from burning and not other countries´ air as you call it. CM corrupt politicians and Police dont do anything about it (can see the fires everywhere) even tho its a danger to CM Airport operations and everybodys Health in CM. Enough to get the hell out of CM considering also have Thailands worst Immigration ... sick.gifsick.gifsick.gif

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Because the monsoon rains were not intense this year, burning has started earlier. With Kalimatan, they are wholesale burning the forest to grow palm nuts/oil. This is crap oil, it is the smoky <deleted> that street vendors use. But Big Indonesian corporations are burning new land and no one is going to stop them. Rural farmers in Thailand have always burnt rice waste and so on. They do not comprehend mulch and forage, burning has always been a part of life. Burning will never cease unless there is an alternative. I say again, burning will never cease until someone shows them a better way.

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A report from the UN says this years burning and destruction of the forest in Kalimantan is the worst ever recorded. Singapore offered to help bur Indonesia refused.

Saw a little of the BBC interview with Joko Widodo (Indonesia's President) in which he was asked about the burning and the haze which was affecting other countries and what he was going to do about it............in a nutshell he said they had a few thousand troops working on it and it would take perhaps three years to improve the situation!

You could probably do it in three weeks with aerial photographs pinpointing the fires locations, then finding out who owned the land they were on, then either fining them heavily or confiscate the land unless the fires were extinguished.

It would suggest the real reason that this was allowed to continue was the good old "C" word: – Corruption, and this from a man who was supposed to make Indonesia a better place by listening to the people......yeah right!

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Yes, the visibilty is quite bad this morning. Past few days were clear, surprised when I looked out over Kata this morning to see so much haze. And it seems to be worse now, 4 hours later.

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Yes, the visibilty is quite bad this morning. Past few days were clear, surprised when I looked out over Kata this morning to see so much haze. And it seems to be worse now, 4 hours later.

This is by far the worst at my place. Wonder what the airport is like?

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Well today its bad in the phuket town mountain. Feels like a Halloween party.

Should round up the thai haters to go extinguish the fires thus proving their superior intellect and manners.

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Wonder what the airport is like?

Very hazy - I moved to Phuket for clean air for my lungs - not a happy chappy at all today....

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Why does TV highlight these local problems as "Must Read"? Most TV members probably don't live in Phucket.

LOL! The first clue would be the title: "Haze Descends on Phuket" and the second is; that it's in the local Phuket News and Events Forum… And most members on this forum, do live here.

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Why does TV highlight these local problems as "Must Read"? Most TV members probably don't live in Phucket.

LOL! The first clue would be the title: "Haze Descends on Phuket" and the second is; that it's in the local Phuket News and Events Forum… And most members on this forum, do live here.

Ok. Awfully sorry. I read the email newsletter, which is nationwide. I accept that my computer skills are on a par with a Thai graduate's command of the English language.

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And as at this time of posting, there is still a smoke haze in Patong and perhaps throughout Phuket, and I can smell it and see it in the trees and hills above my apartment.

It is a bloody nuisance and is giving me a mild sinus-type headache. Luckily enough I will be heading back to NZ in a few days and will hopefully get some clean air in "the land of the long white cloud".

Just how long is this going to last I wonder?

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I guess your current haze is just some local fires. No smog at North East of island.

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We're now in the dry season, easterlies blowing every day so unlikely to get haze from Sumatra now.

However, locals are always going to light fires to burn rubbish.

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