Officials in Rayong are pulling out all the stops to protect the eastern province’s beaches from an oil spill 3 kilometres off-shore. According to a Nation Thailand report, provincial governor Channa Iamsaeng says the crude oil is currently headed for the beaches of Mae Rampueng and Khao Laemya.
Workers have placed a “beach boom”, or barrier line, in the sea, in an attempt to hold the spill back from the shore. Khao Laemya National Park officials are working alongside workers from petroleum and petrochemical firm IRPC and Star Petroleum Refining, owners of the undersea pipeline that has leaked thousands of litres of crude oil into the waters around Rayong. Nation Thailand reports that local officials are confident the oil spill will not reach the popular tourist island of Koh Samet. However, they continue to monitor developments.
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