<p>Local people in Chana District, Songkhla, have put up billboards opposing government plans to build a deep sea port in their area as part of the <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/1510">Landbridge </a>scheme. They are also opposed to a planned petrochemical industry, as they do not want their home to become another Mab Ta Phut, the polluted Eastern Seaboard industrial area.</p>
<p>Villagers of Pak Bang village in Satun expressed concern over their homes and livelihoods in the face of a huge government fuel depot project that will require 5,000 rai (2,000 acres) of land in their area. No one has told them anything or given them any information, they complained.</p>