Group fights cable-car plans
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The Stop Global Warming Association yesterday vowed to block a plan to construct cable-car services inside Phu Kradeung National Park.
“There’s no need for such services at the park. It runs against the environmental-conservation concept,” the association’s chairman, Srisuwan Janya, said.
He vowed to petition to the Central Administrative Court if the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department went ahead with the plan.
Located in Loei, Phu Kradeung National Park is a popular tourist attraction.
An informed source disclosed that the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning said the cable-car project at Phu Kradeung National Park would not require prior approval from it.
“The department can make a decision itself,” the source said. “The project won’t have serious environmental impacts. Yet, the department must take into account the possible impacts on the local ecology, and whether the cable cars affect plants and animals there.”
Sueb Nakhasathien Foundation secretary-general Sasin Chalermlarp said the department should explain why it wanted to construct the cable-car system.
“If it’s designed to reduce the number of tourists staying overnight inside the park, please present information for further discussions among relevant parties,” Sasin said.
He said the cable-car project must be subjected to discussions and debates before it is allowed to proceed.
If the cable-car system will not reduce the number of overnight visitors to the park, the system should not be constructed, Sasin said.
