Environmental news from Thailand — climate, air quality, conservation and sustainability, in English from Thai PBS World.
The air quality in several northern and north-eastern provinces, including Chiang Mai, is deteriorating to a level which may pose a risk to people’s health, due to an increase in forest fires in Thailand and Myanmar. Today (Wednesday), Suomi NPP satellite images, from Thailand’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), show there were 1,060
Poor air quality has been reported in 28 areas of metropolitan Bangkok today (Monday), with the amount of PM2.5 dust in the atmosphere exceeding safety limits, mainly due to stagnant air flow and an accumulation of airborne dust particles due to emissions from increased road traffic. Bangkok’s Ma Charoen Road in Nong Khaem district topped
Thailand’s Pollution Control Department (PCD) has advised against swimming in the sea or playing on the sand at three spots on Mae Ram Phueng beach in Rayong province, after high levels of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) were detected. PCD Director-General Attapol Charoenchansa said today that inspectors had discovered that TPH in the sea at three
The skipper of an aging oil tanker is facing charges for violating the Navigation in Thai Waters Act by allegedly discharging about 3,000 litres of oil into the sea off Chon Buri province. Royal Thai Navy (RTN) Spokesman Vice Admiral Pokkrong Monthatphalin told the media that the 30-40-year-old tanker was found to have discharged oil
Divers from the maintenance team of Star Petroleum Refining (SPRC) have managed to close three valves on the ruptured submarine oil pipeline after two days of effort, paving the way for the removal of about 12,000 litres of residual oil starting tomorrow (Thursday). Rayong governor Charnna Iamsaeng said today that the repair work has proceeded
Calls have been increasing, from businesses and the public in the Mar Ram Phueng beach area in the eastern province of Rayong, for the authorities to suspend the operating license of Star Petroleum Refining Plc (SPRC) as more black globules, believed to be partially dissolved oil, were discovered on Mar Ram Phueng beach last evening
The Star Petroleum Refining Company (SPRC) has sent an urgent notice to the Thai Marine Department’s office in Rayong province, seeking permission to access an offshore mooring platform to repair the flexible undersea oil pipeline after a second rupture was found. The company said that oil occasionally trickles out of this second crack into the
Patches of a thin film of oil were found this morning (Saturday) on Mae Ram Phueng beach and oil slicks have been detected floating in the sea near the beach. An oil sheen has also been spotted at the PTTLNG port, also in the Muang district of the eastern province of Rayong. Workers from Star
A large number of the globules, believed to be dissolved oil, have been found scattered along the beaches in the eastern provinces of Rayong and Chon Buri as well as an oil sheen, and have been sent for analysis, according to the Marine and Coastal Resources Department. The black globules were found on beaches in
Rayong Deputy Governor Pirun Hemarak today (Thursday) blamed residual oil, left inside a plastic oil pipeline due to human error, for the second oil spill in just over two weeks into the seas off the Thai province today. About 5,000 litres of crude oil leaked into the sea this morning, at the same mooring platform
Star Petroleum Refining (SPRC), the company behind the oil spill in the Gulf of Thailand two weeks ago in January, revealed today (Thursday) that there has been another spill and has asked for 5,000 litres of dispersants from the Pollution Control Department. According to the company, the new leak, estimated to be 5,000 litres, is
The Star Petroleum Refining Company has issued an announcement insisting that only 39 tonnes, or about 47,000 litres of crude oil leaked from its broken offshore pipeline, near the deep-sea single mooring platform about 25km from Rayong’s Map Ta Phut, on the night of January 25th. The company also offered an apology for the impact
