Crushing plants that cause forest fires will lose licences

The Royal Forest Department plans to revoke the land use licences of stone-crushing plants that have caused forest fires.

Cheewapap Cheewatham, director of the Forest Protection and Fire Control Bureau, said on Monday the move followed a fire at a crushing plant that spread and destroyed 109 rai of forest in Lampang province.

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Apinya Wipatayotin