<p>Environmentalists have called on the authorities to rethink changing Thailand’s environmental protection law, because the process lacks public oversight.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>On Tuesday morning, 26 January 2016, at least 15 members of <a href="https://web.facebook.com/stopcoalkrabi">Save Andaman from Coal</a>, a conservation group opposed to coal-fired power plants based in Krabi gathered at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) in Bangkok.</p>