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Harmful projects wipe out all of nature's hard work
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/04/2015
» At the Earth Summit in 1992, a 12-year-old girl stood at the podium before a roomful of international delegates and gave one of the most memorable speeches on the state of our world at the time.
Development forges on, but at what cost?
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/12/2014
» US President Barack Obama on Tuesday used his executive authority to impose an indefinite ban on oil and gas exploration in Alaska's picturesque Bristol Bay, home to beluga and killer whales and the endangered North Pacific right whale.
Stifling public discourse will only provoke dissent
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 21/11/2014
» The key phrase, in Thai, is eud ad. It means frustrated, ill at ease, feeling discomfort, cramped, suffocated or stifled.
Security overkill stifles protesters' right to speak out
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 17/10/2014
» It was deja vu all over again in the southern tourist haven of Krabi on Monday.
Egat needs to listen to locals over coal power plant
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 03/10/2014
» What were soldiers armed with war weapons doing at a public hearing on a proposed sea port for transporting coal to a proposed coal-fired power plant in Krabi last week?
Power blackout a black mark for the country
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 07/06/2013
» Ever since Pongsak Raktapongpaisal became energy minister last October, the national energy situation has drawn wide public attention _ and confusion.