Industrial area Map Ta Phut

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นิคมอุตสาหกรรม มาบตาพุด
Industrial Area Map Ta Phut
Map Ta Phut Industrial Area (Thailand)
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Coordinates 12 ° 41 ′  N , 101 ° 9 ′  E Coordinates: 12 ° 41 ′  N , 101 ° 9 ′  E
Basic data
Country Thailand

province

Rayong
ISO 3166-2 TH-21
Plant for natural gas separation in Map Ta Phut
Plant for natural gas separation in Map Ta Phut

The industrial area Map Ta Phut ( Thai นิคมอุตสาหกรรม มาบตาพุด , RTGS Nikhom Utsahakam Map Ta Phut ; English Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate ) is a 25 km² industrial park southwest of Map Ta Phut ( 12 ° 43 ′  N , 101 ° 10 ′  E , Amphoe Mueang Rayong ) on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand in eastern Thailand .

Tambon Map Ta Phut, west of the city of Rayong , has been designated by the Thai government in the development plan for the east coast region since 1981 as a center of petrochemical and heavy industry . A deep sea port was completed in 1992. The industrial area is divided into areas:

Industrial Estate ( 12 ° 42 ′  N , 101 ° 9 ′  E )
Industrial Port ( 12 ° 40 ′  N , 101 ° 9 ′  E )
Eastern Industrial Estate ( 12 ° 42 ′  N , 101 ° 7 ′  E )
Asia Industrial Estate ( 12 ° 42 ′  N , 101 ° 6 ′  E )
Pha Daeng Industrial Estate ( 12 ° 41 ′  N , 101 ° 8 ′  E )
Hemaraj Eastern Industrial Estate ( 12 ° 43 '  N , 101 ° 7'  O )

By 2006, over 100 factories had settled in the former fishing village of Map Ta Phut. These often produce hazardous waste , which in many cases is not properly disposed of. Industrial accidents and air pollution have a major impact on the environment and the health of the population in the region.

Air pollution first became public in 1997 when a large number of students and teachers at a nearby school experienced a range of symptoms from the emission of fumes such as sulfur dioxide . Some had to be treated in the hospital. The school later had to be closed.

In 2000 there was a major phosgene leak in Thai Polycarbonates, resulting in two deaths and numerous injuries.

A study from 2005 found that Map Ta Phut exceeded the limit values ​​for toxic and carcinogenic chemicals in the air in developed countries by 60 to 3000 times. An investigation in 2007 found unusually high benzene levels in over 300 of 2,177 residents . In 2009, Thailand's Supreme Administrative Court upheld an injunction against 65 construction projects in the Map Ta Phut area, following a lawsuit from local residents.

The supply of electrical energy could not keep pace with the rapid settlement of industry and larger producers therefore kept emergency power generators available. Construction of the new 1400 MW coal-fired power plant Map Ta Phut began in 2003 and was completed in 2006. It is operated by a joint venture between the Thai companies Banpu and Loxley and the British PowerGen (now E.ON UK). The project met with considerable protests from environmental groups. ( 12 ° 45 ′  N , 101 ° 10 ′  E )

In July and August 2013, the area hit the international headlines when, after a leak in a pipeline, an oil spill also heavily polluted the popular and protected holiday island of Ko Samet .

literature

  • Fumiharu Mieno: The Eastern Seabord Development Plan and Industrial Cluster in Thailand. A quantitative overview. In: Aid as Handmaiden for the Development of Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (Hampshire) 2013, pp. 81-105.
  • S. Vajirakachorn: Factors affecting the implementation of government air pollution reduction and elimination policy. A case study of Map Ta Phut industrial estate, Rayong Province, Thailand. In: Environmental Impact II. WIT Press, Ashurst (Southampton) 2014, pp. 695-704.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ S. Vajirakachorn, W. Phoochinda: An evaluation of the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate's air pollution reduction and elimination policy. In: The Sustainable City IX , Volume 2, WIT Press, Ashurst (Southampton) 2014, pp. 1523-1524.
  2. ↑ Mieno: The Eastern Seaboard Development Plan. P. 85.
  3. ↑ Website of the industrial area Map Ta Phut ( Memento of the original of May 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mtpie.com
  4. ^ Map Ta Phut - Industrial Port
  5. ↑ Map Ta Phut - Asia Industrial Estate ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.asiaindustrialestate.com
  6. ↑ Map Ta Phut - Hemaraj Eastern Industrial Estate
  7. ^ A b Norman Fairclough: Language and Globalization. Routledge, Abingdon / New York 2006, p. 114.
  8. ↑ a b Simon SC Tay, Phir Paungmalit: Critical environmental questions. In: Nuclear Power and Energy Security in Asia. Routledge, Abingdon / New York 2012, p. 103.
  9. ↑ S. Vajirakachorn, W. Phoochinda: An evaluation of the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate's air pollution reduction and elimination policy. In: The Sustainable City IX , Volume 2, 2014, p. 1524.
  10. ^ Jean-François Tremblay: An Impasse Grows In Thailand . In: Chemical & Engineering News . 88, No. 12, March 22, 2010.
  11. ↑ Thai Phosgene Gas Leak Kills as Hospital Cases Rise . March 16, 2000. Accessed October 10, 2014.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.reocities.com  
  12. ↑ Banpu Coal Power Plant
  13. ^ Oil spill in Thailand. Black beaches on Koh Samet. In: Zeit Online , July 31, 2013.
  14. ↑ Oil slick dirty beach on Ko Samet Island. In: Die Welt , July 29, 2013.
  15. ↑ Thomas Fuller: Thai Officials Play Down Effects of Oil Spill. In: The New York Times , August 23, 2013.