By Bangkok Post
About 600 villagers from Sanamchaikhet and Phanom Sarakham districts in Chachoengsao on Thursday blocked highway 331 (Rayong-Sa Kaew) in protest against the construction of a coal-fueled electricity generation plant in the province’s No304 industrial estate, reports said.
The villagers demanded the National Power Supply Company Limited, the project’s owner, move its planned power plant elsewhere.
They said the province’s industrial estate was surrounded by large local agricultural communities and is situated near the Khao Hin Sawn Education and Development Centre, a development project initiated by His Majesty the King, according to the reports.
They were concerned that the power plant would degrade the environment, create health problems and affect their way of living, as local people living in Mae Moh of Lampang and Map Ta Phut of Rayong were experiencing now.
The environmental impact assessment report of the 540-megawatt power plant was approved in late 2009. The project operator planned to build the plant inside the No304 industrial estate of the eastern province.
The reports did not give any detail on where the highway was blocked.
Original link: http://www.bangkokpost.com/feature/environment/188475/villagers-oppose-coal-fired-power-plant
