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Home » News from Thailand » Smog and particulate matter in the North increased again
Smog and particulate matter in the North increased again
Forest fires in northern Thailand
Air pollution in the north of Thailand rose sharply again at the beginning of this week. In the district of Muang (Chiang Rai), a concentration of 105 mcg of PM 2,5 dust particles was measured in the air.
Phayao was also bad at 90 mcg, followed by Lampang me at 86 mcg and Chiang Mai at 73 mcg, all well above the safety limit of 50 mcg.
There are 132 forest fires in the North, more than half of them in Chiang Rai. Farmers are still burning areas of forests and crop residues, causing air quality to be very poor for more than two months. Chiang Rai is the worst affected province with a peak of 305 mcg particulate matter.
Various ministries are meeting about the situation. It is also being investigated whether artificial rain can be generated.
Source: Bangkok Post
Various ministries are meeting about the situation!
What a decisiveness of the ministry!
LS
Yes, meeting that helps!!
Adri
haha. You are not going to fine yourself or your family
Just punish severely if a farmer makes a fire
A farmer who sets fire can hardly be caught in the act. The owner of a piece of land that catches fire must be severely punished. From now on he will pay attention in case he does it himself or that his neighbor sets the place on fire. That increases social control.
Now the owner of a burning piece of land is sitting in the pub “and knows nothing”!! Yes Yes!!!!!!
I was thinking of two measures.
1. Give the farmers 1 baht more if they don't burn but plow and 2 baht less if they plow and don't burn anymore.
2. Deploy firefighting planes or the Russian rain generation
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You can spend hours, days, months and years assembling new prohibitions and laws, as long as they are not checked consistently and without corruption, any law is a joke.
Only when tourists stay away on a large scale, and it becomes more noticeable financially, will people finally be able to really intervene.
Heavy rain here in Hangdong((Chiangmai).
For the $ 1 billion for which they bought three submarines that are useless for Thailand, they could have bought firefighting planes, but there is probably less commission on that.
Firefighting aircraft are used on a large scale.
“The Office of Aviation for Natural Resources Conservation has undertaken 1,468 flights to put out the blazes, releasing 730,000 liters of water during those missions.”
The size of forest fires alone is so large that enforcement and control is hardly feasible.
“… ferocious fires in the North that have wiped out 2.4 million rai of forest land so far this year. Source: Bangkok Post Today
A rai is 40 × 40 meters or 1600 m2
It has very little to do with the farmers!!! If that was the worst, it would be over within a week.
They are just "people" who like to set fires. There are a lot of mountains here in the north. And they burn everywhere. They just shoot flares into the forest with a box of matches or other highly flammable stuff attached to it. And so you can see whole mountains blooming in the evening. And because it hasn't rained here since mid-December, everything is so dry that it burns right away.
But those PM2,5 numbers have been much higher. Up to a thousand in some places.
But where I live it was well over 500 every day for quite a long time. Mae Hong Son and Chiangrai was even worse. Today it was 153 again here in Chiangdao. But luckily it's dropping again.
yesterday between Lampang and Chiang Mai along the road number 11 many fields and mountains were on fire..
I don't know what will be transported through the installed pipes? I hope it's not fuel. Water? possibly as an extinguishing agent.