Energy
China eyes its next prize – the Mekong
Beijing’s islands-building in the South China Sea and their militarisation, replete with surface-to-air missiles, is near complete. With guile, threat, and coercion, China can now seize control of one of the main transport arteries of Southeast Asia, making a mockery of international laws and norms.Keep ...
Elliot Brennan
Experts calm Thai consumer fears over rising petrol prices
Oil experts say Thai consumers should not overreact to higher retail oil prices as they are expected to fall soon when the prices for crude drop.Manoon Siriwan, an oil expert, yesterday (May 26) told The Nation that Thai consumers should not worry much about a ...
Wichit Chaitrong
Dislike for clean energy
The announcement by Thailand’s Energy Ministry to consider two new fossil-fuel and highly carbon polluting power stations demonstrates an inability of the nation’s leaders to take a fresh path towards a clean, renewable energy future. At the time where major economies and even many developing nations ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
New dam in Cambodia 'would destroy Mekong'
A Chinese-backed plan for Cambodia to build the Mekong River’s biggest dam would destroy fisheries that feed millions and worsen tensions with Vietnam, the downstream country with most to lose from dams on the waterway, according to a three-year study commissioned by the Cambodian government.Keep ...
Hydro dam battle taking on new allies
As resistance mounts to hydroelectric dam projects along the Mekong River, local leaders have tried to engage civic movements in the Mekong sub-region in the battle. The latest group to emerge is the Transborder News Network, which held a forum on dam project investments and ...
Wassayos Ngamkham
Renewables players dig in on price
The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) is digging on its position that the current wholesale price for electricity is too low for small operators in renewable energy. The industry lobby sees room for an increase – from Bt2.44 per unit – to a level below that ...
The Nation Reporter
Rainbow Warrior brings clean energy campaign to Thailand
The Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace’s most iconic ship, is sailing to the Gulf of Thailand and will anchor near Songkhla’s most popular beach, Samila Beach, for five days, from May 16-20. Many activities will be arranged to accentuate the mission of the ship’s first visit to ...
Patcharawalai Sanyanusin
Mekong River Commission reaches out to China to avert dam damage
The future of the Mekong River Basin was in the spotlight again at the third summit of the Mekong River Commission (MRC), held on 5 April 2018 in Siem Reap, Cambodia.The Mekong flows from China (where it is known as the Lancang), through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia ...
Wang Yan
Mekong River nations face the hidden costs of China’s dams
Sam In, a 48-year-old rice farmer from Cambodia’s northeastern province of Stung Treng, never knew that people paid for water until he was forced to move out of his home on the banks of a Mekong River tributary two years ago.Keep reading ...
Yukako Ono
New oil-field bid process for ‘benefit of public’
Politicians and bureaucrats will play a bigger role in the decision-making process for oil and gas production in the Gulf of Thailand under new bidding terms and conditions approved by the National Energy Policy Committee (NEPC) yesterday, according to industry sources.Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
