Chiang Mai Conservation Group Join Mae Wong Dam Protest

 | Mon 23 Sep 2013 13:47 ICT

CityNews – On 22nd September Chiang Mai Conservation Group reached the Three Kings Monument after they started their walk from Chiang Dao 18th September. The 90 km walk was in protest of the Mae Wong Dam project.

The group at the Three Kings Monument

The group will now walk to Bangkok and join thousands of like-minded protestors led by Sueb Nakasatien, Foundation secretary.

The Chiang Mai Conservation Group said that the government should consider the plan more carefully as there are various disadvantages to the project. They group criticized the government for building more dams to prevent floods when floods happened every year anyway. They asked that the government stops destroying areas of nature, which affects both the natural resources of the area and the lives of the people who live there.

 

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