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The Hankyoreh 12 February 2017 | Park Tae-woo

Samsung ordered to compensate former worker for medical treatment costs related to rare ailment

A court has ruled that the multiple sclerosis of a former worker on the LCD production line at Samsung Electronics (the line is now part of Samsung Display) is a work-related disease. Not only is it extremely rare for multiple sclerosis to be acknowledged as a work-related disease, but this is also the first work-related disease to be recognized at Samsung’s LCD line.

EARTH 27 January 2017

BANGKOK: Khon Rak Ban Kerd Group visited the National Human Rights Commission Office to petition on the rehabilitation of the gold mine, and also appeal the Administrative Court on the case of withdrawal of Prathanabat.

Bangkok Post 27 January 2017 | Apinya Wipatayotin

Fear garbage will be dumped close by

A local group protesting against a waste power plant project in Pathum Thani has vowed to apply more pressure after the Energy Regulatory Commission of Thailand shrugged off their demands to scrap the project.

Impact on local community stressed

Bangkok Post 22 January 2017 | Apinya Wipatayotin

The Network of Songkhla-Pattani People's against the Coal-Fired Power Plant will meet the governor of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) next month to ask him if Egat has completed bidding on the planned construction of a coal power plant in Songkhla's Thepha district.

Bangkok Post 16 January 2017 | Apinya Wipatayotin

Hearing granted based on 'new evidence'

The Pollution Control Department (PCD) has filed a petition with the Central Administrative Court, asking it to reconsider the corruption-riddled Klong Dan wastewater treatment plant case, saying it has "new evidence" with which to reopen the legal fight.

Mongabay 16 January 2017 | Isabel Esterman

Air pollution from coal-fired power plants is already a major killer in Southeast Asia and that death toll could more than triple in the next 15 years, according to a study by researchers from Harvard University and Greenpeace published last week in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Agence France-Presse 15 January 2017

MANILA - Electronic waste is rising sharply across Asia as higher incomes allow hundreds of millions of people to buy smartphones and other gadgets, with serious consequences for human health and the environment, according to a UN study released Sunday.

The Nation 04 January 2017 | Pratch Rujivanarom

POWER ISSUES will be a major concern in this year, as the fate of the Krabi and Thepa coal-fired power plants will be determined and the quest to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions remains unfulfilled.

Power-plant development will be in focus in 2017, as the government solicits public opinion on the Krabi coal-fired power plant in January and the allowance for the Thepa coal-fired power plant by this year. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) will also continue to invest more in renewable energy.

Bangkok Post 01 January 2017 | Apinya Wipatayotin 

Over the past year, numerous development projects and policies have ended up in conflict between government agencies and local residents. Some of them were put on hold and others are ongoing. For 2017, a number of conflicts have the potential to erupt or at least see an escalation. These include Development of the Mekong, Krabi Coal Power Plant, New Mining Act, and Southern Land Bridge Project.

Photo: Almost a dozen activists protest the government’s coal-fired power plant project in Krabi outside Government House on Nov 18 2016. (Photo by Thiti Wannamontha)

Prachatai 29 December 2016

The Central Administrative Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by anti-mine villagers against both a gold mine company and Thailand’s Industry Minister, saying villagers’ claims about the environmental effects of the mine are not credible.

The villagers accused the state officials for malfeasance in office for overlooking the environmental and health impacts believed to have resulted from the mining operations of Tungkum Company in the district.