Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT)

26 Jan 2016
An Andaman Sea conservation group in southern Thailand has accused the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) of trying to obstruct efforts to protect a delta area in the country’s famous beach resort province of Krabi.     On Tuesday morning, 26 January 2016, at least 15 members of Save Andaman from Coal, a conservation group opposed to coal-fired power plants based in Krabi gathered at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) in Bangkok.
30 Nov 2015
Administrative Court officials have said that Thai governmental agencies accused of failing to safeguard the public interest by giving the green light to the construction of a controversial hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River should be acquitted.    The Administrative Court, on Monday morning, 30 November 2015, held the final hearing on a case over the Xayaburi Dam, a controversial hydroelectric dam on the main stem of Mekong River, east of Xayaburi Town in northern Laos.
24 Jul 2015
A large crowd gathered in downtown Bangkok to protest the government’s plan to build a coal-fired power plant in a touristic southern province on the Andaman Coast. On Thursday afternoon, 23 July 2015, about 300 people gathered in front of Government House in Bangkok to urge the military government to halt plans to build a coal-fired power plant and a coal pier in the southern province of Krabi.
13 Jul 2015
Environmental activists have started a hunger strike to protest against coal-fired power plant project in southern Thailand.   Two members of Save Andaman from Coal, an anti-coal powered plant group from southern Thailand, have vowed to undergo a hunger strike to death in order to halt the construction of a coal-fired power plant in the southern province of Krabi.
30 Jun 2015
Energy experts, state officials and entrepreneurs in southern Thailand have called on the Thai authorities to scrap a plan to build a coal-fired power plant in the region, saying that the lucrative tourism industry could suffer in the long run.
9 Jun 2015
Shan Community Based Organizations (CBOs) have issued a statement concerning plans to build the Upper Salween (Mong Ton) dam in Shan State, demanding cancellation of the dam. On 9 June at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) in central Bangkok, Sai Khur Hseng, the coordinator of the Shan Sapawa Environmental Organization, presented the statement to about twenty media agencies, stating that the Burmese authorities must stop their plans to build the Mong Ton dam, as well as all other dams on the Salween River.
19 Jan 2015
Community representatives from Shan, Karenni, Karen and Mon States are handing a petition today to the Myanmar Ministry of Electric Power, and to the Chinese and Thai Embassies in Yangon, urging an immediate halt to dam projects on the Salween River, which are fuelling war and violating the rights of local peoples. 

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