Protests prompt scrapping of garbage-fuelled project in Lampang
A garbage-fuelled electricity-generating project in Lampang has been postponed indefinitely due to persistent opposition by local residents after discrepancies were discovered in the public hearing process that would have resulted in the local administrat
A senior official from the Bor Haew Tambon Administrative Organisation (TAO), Chaiyaphorn Bunkiatsakul, yesterday announced to a cheering crowd that he would ask VPN and Symmetric to scrap the project.
The TAO’s management, the villagers and the company’s management later signed a document stating that the project would be activated anytime in the near future.
The company wanted to build a 6.5-megawatt plant on a 142-rai (56 acres) plot in Lampang’s Muang district.
A large number of residents had campaigned against it, and the Bor Haew TAO recently detected flaws in the company’s mandatory public hearing it had scheduled for Sunday and called it off.
The move came after more than 300 villagers gathered outside the TAO’s compound dressed in black.
A representative of the villagers, Songphol Srikhamsuk, said the villagers felt happy but would continue monitoring the project to make sure it was not reactivated.
