Press release - December 9, 2005
Greenpeace activists from Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia, together with community leaders, today led a sit-in outside the BLCP coal power plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, blockading the road to the plant, as the protest against the construction of the climate killing coal plant and 18 future plants like it in Thailand entered its third day.
Greenpeace activists block the road entrance to the BLCP coal plant at Map Ta Phut, Thailand. Greenpeace is demanding the plant's immediate closure, calling on the Thai government to phase out coal power and to commit to renewable energy.
"We will stay here until our demands are met," said Greenpeace Southeast Asia spokesperson Tara Buakamsri, from the sit-in which has already disrupted the plant's operations.
Thailand has a vast potential for clean, renewables energies such as modern biomass, wind and solar.
"Greenpeace is calling on the Thai government to review its current coal-driven energy plan, to commit to meeting its 8% target for renewable energy by 2011 and to further increase the share of renewables in its energy mix," concluded Buakamsri.
Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that uses non-violent creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems to drive solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
Other contacts: Tara Buakamsri, Greenpeace Southeast Asia Climate Campaigner +66 185 50 013Jean-Francois Fauconnier, Greenpeace International Climate Campaigner +66 142 29 645Michael Kessler, Greenpeace International Communications +66 689 84 302Ua-phan Chamnan-Ua, Greenpeace Southeast Asia Media Officer +66 192 82 426
VVPR info: Video: Michael Nagasaka, Greenpeace International +31 646 166 309 Photos: John Novis, Greenpeace International + 31 653 819 121