Panel requested that the move get sped away.
PUBLISHED: 17 Apr 2024 at 06 :05
Bound & According to Industry Minister Pimphattra Wichaikul, Beyond Plc did begin moving copper effluent from Samut Sakhon, Bangkok, and Chon Buri back to their original site in Tak on May 7. The company anticipates completing the project in under 36 weeks.
On Tuesday, Ms. Pimphattra reported that the commission overseeing the transportation of the tailings had taken into account a revised strategy by the business that owns the cobalt waste.
On May 7, the business will use 30 trucks to begin transferring the copper tailings to Pun.
It may move 450 tons of copper tailings each day.
The committee requested an increase in the number of vehicles to shorten the duration, but the company initially planned to build 10 vehicles for transportation. The copper waste were expected to be transferred in 92 time.
Authorities are setting up leisure pits in Tak where the cobalt tailings may be interred.
Today, officers of the Industry Ministry’s Department of Primary Industries and Mines ( DPIM), along with officers of Tak Provincial Public Works, the Town & The waste pits may be examined for safety and sturdiness by the Country Planning Office and some other companies.
After the waste has been buried, safety measures like double-bagging the cobalt tailings before transportation and conducting an annual monitoring also close to the disposal pits to assure no leakage and contamination is prevented will be implemented.
The waste mines are secured using two pieces of one. 5-millimetre HDPE plates.
When the copper effluent have been buried, the mines will be shut using dust, HDPE linens and reinforced practical.
Thus far, 12,421 kilograms out of the 13,382 tonnes of copper waste that were improperly moved from a garbage in Tak have been found, comprising 6,378 kilograms at J& B Metal Co in Samut Sakhon, 1,034 tonnes at Chin Hong Cheng Inter Tech ( 2008 ) Co in Samut Sakhon, 468 tonnes at a warehouse in Khlong Ma Duea, also in Samut Sakhon.
Another 4,391 tonnes were found at a warehouse in Chon Buri’s Ban Bung area, and the other 150 kilograms were found at LL0 Metal Co in Bangkok’s Bang Sue area.
However, Akaradech Wongpitakroj, United Thai Nation Party MP for Ratchaburi and chairman of the committee on business, said on Tuesday His committee had invited businesses to give more information about the schedule at the current congress meeting.