The crude oil slick washed up on Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong province, Thailand after it leaked from an undersea pipeline owned by Chevron’s Star Petroleum Refining Public Company Limited (SPRC).
SPRC must be held accountable and liable not only for cleaning up oil pollution contamination, but also for disclosing to the public in a concise and transparent manner information on the scope of the oil spill and its negative impacts on the marine ecosystem, coastal fishing community, and tourism.
Greenpeace Thailand urges the Thai government to form an independent committee to investigate the oil pollution disaster, to urgently review the National Energy Plan in order to break free from fossil fuels, and to halt plans to expand oil and fossil gas industry, which endangers livelihoods, the natural environment, and communities who bear the brunt of environmental impacts and climate crises.