The projects include the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Rayong province, the fifth natural gas pipeline project, and a nationwide electricity transmission expansion project.
Category: Thailand
PTT is going on a green spending spree
PTT Plc, whose sales account for about 10 percent of the nation’s economic output, is suddenly spending billions of dollars on electric-vehicle and renewable-energy companies. It ie joining the ranks of major global oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Total SA and Eni SpA that are ramping up investment in clean energy as investor pressure mounts to ditch traditional fossil-fuel businesses.
Egat to import more electricity from Laos
State-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) plans to import an additional 1,200 megawatts of electricity from hydroelectric power plants in Laos under a long-term purchase contract.
Tigers under threat
The government’s commitment to double the population of wild tigers by 2022 is marked by uneven progress, according to the latest report by the World Wildlife Fund.
Plastic waste imports are ‘unwanted’
More than 100 environmental groups have called on the government to prohibit the import of plastic waste and instead encourage the use of domestic plastic waste for recycling as a way to safeguard the environment and promote the circular economy.
Beauty and the beasts
A newly minted Unesco World Heritage site, Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex offers the breathtaking natural splendour of Thailand and up-close views of wild elephants and endangered gaurs
A just transition requires a major paradigm shift
While “green” is in vogue today, the next generation must also perceive Thailand’s decarbonisation as transparent and inclusive.
We Support “World Heritage, Blood Heritage” Campaign!
We object in the strongest terms to the declaration of Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (KKFC), the ancestral lands of the Karen people, as a World Heritage Site on 26th July 2021. The World Heritage Committee has set a dangerous precedent by disregarding severe cases of reported human rights violations and history of the Karen people. Further, the very act of the Committee’s adoption of the KKFC as a World Heritage violates the fundamental rights of the Indigenous Peoples living in the area and international human rights law.
China poised for Thailand’s solar move
With its factories and investments in Thailand, China will be increasingly important to the Southeast Asian nation’s transition from fossil fuels