BANGKOK, March 3 (TNA) - Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said on Monday his visit to Cambodia had achieved productive bilateral cooperations including projects on energy, infrastructure and business.
After having met with Cambodian Leader Hun Sen, Mr. Samak said Thailand’s assistance to Cambodia would be beneficial to both countries, especially the highway 68 construction project with an additional budget on top of the 1.4 billion baht (US$43.7 million) already allocated.
The road will connect Thailand’s Surin province to Cambodia’s Siem Reap, and seen as an opportunity to boost the tourism industry in the region.
Prime Minister Samak also said Thailand would build a coal-fired power plant on Cambodia's Koh Kong.
The Thai premier also said he had discussed with his Cambodian counterpart border demarcation on overlapping zones which he described as a “win-win situation” if the zones could be developed as tourist attractions.
Both leaders also discussed criminal extradition and Cambodia’s proposal to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization or UNESCO to list the Preah Vihear Temple as a World Heritage site.
Mr. Samak reiterated such a listing would not affect Thailand since it would include only the temple, not its complex. Therefore, the premier believed, it would not affect the demarcation of Thailand and Cambodia.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague in June 1962 judged that Preah Vihear belonged to Cambodia, but Thailand and Cambodia have not yet settled a demarcation agreement on land around the ruins. The temple is approached from the Thai border district of Kantharalak in Si Sa Ket province.
After having met with Cambodian Leader Hun Sen, Mr. Samak said Thailand’s assistance to Cambodia would be beneficial to both countries, especially the highway 68 construction project with an additional budget on top of the 1.4 billion baht (US$43.7 million) already allocated.
The road will connect Thailand’s Surin province to Cambodia’s Siem Reap, and seen as an opportunity to boost the tourism industry in the region.
Prime Minister Samak also said Thailand would build a coal-fired power plant on Cambodia's Koh Kong.
The Thai premier also said he had discussed with his Cambodian counterpart border demarcation on overlapping zones which he described as a “win-win situation” if the zones could be developed as tourist attractions.
Both leaders also discussed criminal extradition and Cambodia’s proposal to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization or UNESCO to list the Preah Vihear Temple as a World Heritage site.
Mr. Samak reiterated such a listing would not affect Thailand since it would include only the temple, not its complex. Therefore, the premier believed, it would not affect the demarcation of Thailand and Cambodia.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague in June 1962 judged that Preah Vihear belonged to Cambodia, but Thailand and Cambodia have not yet settled a demarcation agreement on land around the ruins. The temple is approached from the Thai border district of Kantharalak in Si Sa Ket province.
17 comments:
cambodia, please be cautious about the proposed thai built coal-power plant in koh kong province as this required cutting down woods to use for fuel burning the plant. also, the air pollution that creates black air (known in europen as black rain or acid rain that only bad for people's health in the region, but also have many long-term bad effect on the environments. please study this proposal thoroughly before letting the thai-european firm do this kind of investment in cambodia. one has to wonder why thailand business people did not want this in thailand, instead want it in cambodia; so please study this carefully before accepting and allowing them to use cambodia for this kind of bad health investment. thank you.
Attention Cambodia !!!
This is very serious matters in reagrds Health in Cambodia. Your advice is most important.
High risk Health, and Pollution is coming to destroy Khmer/Cambodians. Watch out your health !!!!
this kind of power was strongly protested by thai people that's why it moves to cambodia. it is stupid if it is allowed to do so.
You know!
As I am a Cambodian native. I do like the word,"Khmer Machas Srok". I do not act as any slave to any neighbor country who bring harms into my country, Cambodia. The Cambodians people are the Government, eader isnot the government. he or she is just represent. If he/she acts good for people, I keep if act not, I change.
Is it fair?
If the air is so polluted from the coal burning plant, it could post a threat to our striving tourism in Sihanoukville and of course in Koh Kong. It is always best to preserve clean air, clean environment with green. The benefits we will get back in return is a hundred times more beautiful. I am very concern about the long term affect from this proposal of coal burning plant to produce electricity. The government must a least do some long term study before it approve anything. It must be a cautious move. We must think for our own interest; we are all in it together.
yes, 4:11am, you are smart! thank you, as i see the same like you!
4:11,
Wow!!! where do you learn to talk like that? I'm speachless.
The Thai want to make it look like they are helping us, but they are killing up slowly. Khmer government need to read between the lines before falling into this kind of scam. When was the last time that Thai tuely trying to help Khmer? The anser is never!!! They are looking for opportunity to ready rid of us and so does that Viets. These two nations cannot be trusted. Why do we keep on trying be friends with our enemies?
Well, I don't blamed them because you stupid gorilla love to play with dangerous grenades in Thailand.
The effect of the Mercury fallout from the coal power plant will pollute Cambodian rivers, lakes, and waterways which will destroy Cambodian fishery business!
This is not fair when the Thaicong enjoy cheap energy from coal power plant while Cambodian population suffers from air and mercury pollution! I swear to God those stupid Cambodian leader will be held accountable!
By the way tourism can only flourish when the country is somewhat free from pollution and the action by stupid Cambodian to bring the Thaicong coal power plant into Cambodia will definitely destroy Cambodian tourism for sure!
What is a Paranoid Gorilla Fucker?
Attention Khmer Government!
The more you can keep Cambodia in NATURAL WAYS the more people around the world will come to visit. Why? think about a country with high smoke from factories there is more pollution and health problem, so why touris come for what?
7:06, we love to preserve our country in natural state, but we can't depend on tourist industry alone. We must diversify into Bio Agro industry, Food packaging, Rubber, ..., and manufacturing.
To 7:20AM
There is nothing wrong with diversification of Cambodian economy but please don't diversify to kill Cambodian people!
Listen! Coal power plant doesn't take a lot of space but why the Thaicong don't build coal power plant in their country? The fact that the Thaicong don't want to build in their country because the coal power plant can create more wide spread pollutions than most power plant!
The fear of Mercury fallout from burning coal is very real!
Come on, 9:07, I too share the same concern as you do about our environment, but realistically, we are in no position pick and choose what fuel to use and what not to use.
Just thank God that we have something to use, LOL.
Coal-fired power plants generated more than 50% of electricily in the U.S. Many fossil plants have multiple coal-fired units at a single site.
How a coal fired power plant works
1. Coal Supply
Coal from the mine is delivered to the coal hopper, where it is crushed to five centimetres (2 inches) in size.
The coal is processed and delivered by a conveyor belt to the generating plant.
2. Pulverizer
The coal is then pulverized, or crushed, to a fine powder, mixed with air and blown into the boiler, or furnace for combustion.
3. Boiler
The coal / air mixture ignites instantly in the boiler.
Millions of litres of purified water are pumped through tubes inside the boiler.
Intense heat from the burning coal turns the purified water in the boiler tubes into steam, which spins the turbine (see number four) to create electricity.
4. Precipitator, stack
Burning coal produces carbon dioxide (CO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).
These gases are vented from the boiler.
Bottom ash, which is made of coarse fragments that fall to the bottom of the boiler, is removed.
Fly ash, which is very light, exits the boiler along with the hot gases.
An electrostatic precipitator (a huge air filter) removes 99.4 per cent of fly ash before the flue gases are dispersed into the atmosphere.
5. Turbine, generator
Water in the boiler tubes picks up heat from the boiler and turns into steam.
The high-pressure steam from the boiler passes into the turbine (a massive drum with thousands of propeller blades).
Once the steam hits the turbine blades, it causes the turbine to spin rapidly.
The spinning turbine causes a shaft to turn inside the generator, creating an electric current.
6. Condensers and the cooling water system
Cooling water is drawn into the plant and circulated through condensers, which cools steam discharged from the turbine.
Steam from the turbine also passes through the condensers in separate pipes from cooling water.
The cold water is warmed by the steam, which condenses back into pure water and circulates back to the boiler to begin the process of generating electricity again.
Cooling water, now warm from the heat exchange in the condensers, is released from the plant.
7. Water treatment plant: water purification
To reduce corrosion, water must be purified for use in the boiler tubes.
Other wastewater systems within the plant collect water used to clean pipes and other equipment, and sludge from the water purification process and other processes. Waste water is pumped out of the plant and into the holding ponds.
8. Precipitator, Ash systems
Ash that builds up on the precipitator's plates is vibrated off and collected in large hoppers or bins.
Fly ash and bottom ash are removed from the plants and hauled to disposal sites or ash lagoons.
Depending on the market demand, fly ash produced from TransAlta's three plants is sold to the cement industry for construction.
9. Substation, transformer, transmission lines
Once the electricity is generated, transformers increase the voltage so it can be carried across the transmission lines.
Once electricity is delivered to substations in cities and towns, the voltage flowing into the distribution lines is reduced, and then reduced again to distribute electricity to customers.
Thanks so much for the technical overview of the Coal Power Plant, 10:57, but can you share with us your opinion on where you stand on this?
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