Anti-coal Network Protest at Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Bangkok

Activist Akradej Chakjunda, from Save Andaman from Coal Network, poses for media in protest against the building of coal-fired power plants in the province of Krabi. More than 100 members of Save Andaman from Coal Network, an anti-coal powered plant group from southern Thailand, staged a protest outside the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Bangkok to urge the Ministry to finalise the new declaration of Krabi as environmentally protected zone and to reject any coal-fired power plant project in the area. This official recognition expired more than three years ago.

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Shoot date: 26/01/2016

Locations: Bangkok, Southeast Asia, Thailand

Credit line: © Borja Sanchez-Trillo / Greenpeace

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Anti-coal Network Protest at Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Bangkok

More than 100 members of Save Andaman from Coal Network, an anti-coal powered plant group from southern Thailand, stage a protest outside the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Bangkok to urge the Ministry to finalise the new declaration of Krabi as environmentally protected zone and to reject any coal-fired power plant project in the area. This official recognition expired more than three years ago. The activists invite people to place whale stickers on a large banner and sign a statement to support this cause.

The Thai anti-coal network is calling the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to recognise again the Andaman region as fully protected area and to reject any coal-fired power plant projects in the southern province of Krabi. Activists say the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, or EGAT, is lobbying the Government to change the status of Krabi to non-protected zone, in order to facilitate a coal-fired power plant project in the area.

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