Fourteen years after a lead mining company closed down and left the area polluted, Klity Creek villagers finally get compensation and the court orders a clean-up | Bangkok Post: news

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Final ruling out in Klity Creek case

The Supreme Administrative Court on Thursday ordered the Pollution Control Department to pay a total of 3.8 million baht compensation to 22 Karen villagers over lead contamination at Klity Creek in tambon Chalae of Thong Pha Phum district of Kanchanaburi province.

The verdict ended a nine-year legal battle between the department and the 22 Karen people who filed the lawsuit in 2004.

In the lawsuit, the Karen said the department, which is under the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry, was too slow to clean up Klity Creek after Lead Concentrate Co illegally discharged water highly contaminated with lead into the stream, causing them to suffer from the health hazards caused by the metal.

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  • dao

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    Discussion 3 : 11 Jan 2013 at 00.153

    Clean the creek .

  • bluebottle

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    Discussion 2 : 10 Jan 2013 at 21.512

    The settlement seem small compared with the long term suffering these people will endure if it was lead that caused the pollution.At the end of the day the tax payer is paying the compensation not those who caused the delay.Are they still in office?

  • garabaldi

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    Discussion 1 : 10 Jan 2013 at 19.331

    90 days from today. That will be 11th April, correct? Bangkok Post, we expect your report on compliance with the Supreme Administrative Court, on or before that date. The people of Klity Creek have been cheated and lied to too often in the past.

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