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Thai Enviros Pay for Activism on Toxic Dumping, Coal Plants with Their Lives

2015-04-06 14:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: Environmental activist Jintana Kaewkao confronts a member of the Forestry Department in Bangkok, Thailand, about the suspicious way forest land near her village was acquired by the owners of a steel plant. Jintana Kaewkao, a 53-year-old activist, shop-owner and mother of three, arrived at the district government office on March 12 ready for a fight. With local tensions rising over the planned construction of a steel manufacturing plant amid the wetlands and coconut trees of this seaside community...

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