<p>Environmentalists have called on the authorities to rethink changing Thailand’s environmental protection law, because the process lacks public oversight.</p>

<p>Environmental activists and academics have urged the government to improve the Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) process on a controversial coal-fired power plant project in southern Thailand.</p> <p>On 2 March 2017, academics and environmentalists gathered at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, to discuss deficiencies in the government’s EHIA process as conducted on mega-projects such as its ongoing plans to build&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/6935">a coal-fired power plant</a>&nbsp;in the southern province of Krabi.</p>