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Thailand Gives Approval For Gas P
- Subject: Thailand Gives Approval For Gas P
- From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:42:00
Subject: Thailand Gives Approval For Gas Pipeline To Burma
Dow Jones Business News -- March 25, 1997
Thailand Gives Approval For Gas
Pipeline To Burma
AP-Dow Jones News Service
BANGKOK (AP)--Thailand's National
Environment
Board has given the Petroleum
Authority of
Thailand approval to construct its
portion of a
controversial gas pipeline from
Burma, a PTT
spokesman said Tuesday.
Environmental activists in Thailand
oppose the
pipeline because they say it runs
through forest
reserves and along a fault line. They
have
accused the National Environment Board of
ignoring their concerns.
The Thai portion of the pipeline will
run from the
Burmese border through Kanchanaburi
province to
a power plant in Ratchaburi province 95
kilometers west of Bangkok.
Dhira Phanthumvanich, a board member,
told local
papers that because the Cabinet had
already
approved the power plant 'we have to
give (the
pipeline) the green light.'
The Burmese part of the pipeline is
owned by
Total of France, Unocal Corp. of the
U.S., the
Burmese government and PTT. That
portion of the
project has been heavily criticized
by human
rights groups and democracy activists as
providing cash for Burma's military
regime.