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Activist network to launch campaigns against Map Ta Phut
BANGKOK, Sept 5 - Members of an activist group will begin campaigns tomorrow against last week's ruling by Thailand’s Central Administrative Court allowing 74 of the 76 industrial projects at the Map Ta Phut industrial estate suspended last year to resume operations.
Suthi Utchasai, coordinator of the Eastern People’s Network, said after a meeting of more than 100 group members on Sunday that letters would be handed to several committees, including the four-party panel headed by ex-prime minister Anand Panyarachun, on Monday urging them to resolve the pollution problem at the industrial estate systematically and with good intention.
The four-party panel headed by Mr Anand had earlier advised the government and informed the National Environment Board that 18 categories of projects were deemed harmful to the environment under Article 67, while outlining a city plan to solve the pollution problems at the Map Ta Phut cases.
Mr Suthi said the Network will submit similar letters to five sets of senatorial committee members who had earlier investigated and found a number of irregularities at the industrial estate.
Members of the Network who have been impacted from pollution effects throughout the country will meet next Friday with plan to petition the Central Administrative Court on its ruling Thursday which allowed 74 industrial projects to resume operations, Mr Suthi said.
If the government does not review or rectify the problem at the industrial estate, the group will rally at Map Ta Phut on September 30 and the organisers claim that thousands of protesters will attend. (MCOT online news)
Suthi Utchasai, coordinator of the Eastern People’s Network, said after a meeting of more than 100 group members on Sunday that letters would be handed to several committees, including the four-party panel headed by ex-prime minister Anand Panyarachun, on Monday urging them to resolve the pollution problem at the industrial estate systematically and with good intention.
The four-party panel headed by Mr Anand had earlier advised the government and informed the National Environment Board that 18 categories of projects were deemed harmful to the environment under Article 67, while outlining a city plan to solve the pollution problems at the Map Ta Phut cases.
Mr Suthi said the Network will submit similar letters to five sets of senatorial committee members who had earlier investigated and found a number of irregularities at the industrial estate.
Members of the Network who have been impacted from pollution effects throughout the country will meet next Friday with plan to petition the Central Administrative Court on its ruling Thursday which allowed 74 industrial projects to resume operations, Mr Suthi said.
If the government does not review or rectify the problem at the industrial estate, the group will rally at Map Ta Phut on September 30 and the organisers claim that thousands of protesters will attend. (MCOT online news)
