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Locals resist environmental dictatorship
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/09/2020
» Drenched with a heavy downpour on Tuesday night while picketing in front of Government House, Anong Kuson looked up at the ferocious sky, her face wet with tears mixed with merciless rain.
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SEC forums 'insensitive'
Oped, Editorial, Published on 12/05/2020
» State agencies' plan to hold public consultations about the controversial Southern Economic Corridor (SEC) in Songkhla's Chana district this week deserve criticism, if not a certain amount of anger.
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SEC comes at cost to locals
News, Editorial, Published on 23/01/2020
» To Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his cabinet, a proposed special development zone in Songkhla's Chana district they have just approved is a new opportunity for people in the South. But locals and environmentalists see it in a different light.
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Army's bullying tactics won't work
News, Editorial, Published on 09/04/2017
» Less than a month after the botched environmental and health hearing for the controversial Pak Bara deep-sea project in Satun was called off, rumours have abounded that there is an attempt to transfer a local doctor out of the area who has been helping southern villagers in their fight against the state project. Dr Supat Hasuwannakit, director of Songkhla-based Chana Hospital and a key figure in the Rural Doctors Society, has emerged as a state target owing to his sympathy for embattled villagers opposing the state's projects, which include planned coal-fired power plants in Songkhla and Krabi provinces that would adversely affect the environment and peoples' livelihoods.
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Songkhla project puts villagers' livelihoods at risk
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 30/10/2015
» Not only will 118 families, or some 500 people, in Songkhla's Tepha district be evicted by the Egat coal-fired power plant, but it is also widely feared that the Gulf of Thailand's ecosystem and the livelihoods of the people in the neighbouring districts in Songkhla and Pattani will be affected by sea contamination.
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Why a power plant is bad news for Krabi
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 20/02/2015
» Plans by the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONREPP) to re-designate parts of coastal community areas in Krabi as an environmental protection zone may sound like a good news for local conservationists. But this is not necessarily so.
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Regime must heed South energy worries
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 30/08/2014
» The arrests of energy reform activists from the South during their march to Bangkok highlights the junta’s desire to stop public protests under martial law. But it also shows the regime’s support for industrial development in the face of locals' struggles to protect the environment, the source of their livelihoods.
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