BBC:

Thailand’s economic prospects could be put in jeopardy because of a continuing dispute at a huge industrial complex.
Recent figures on GDP and exports have been encouraging for the Thai government.
But economists and investors are warning that two major factors have the potential to derail Thailand’s nascent recovery.
One is political instability. The other is the legal morass at Map Ta Phut.
Map Ta Phut is one of the biggest petro-chemical hubs in the world.
It is the size of a small town built of gleaming steel pipes, storage tanks and chimney stacks, jutting out into the sea; an industrial peninsula clearly visible from the white sand beaches and fishing villages on either side.
Map Ta Phut has been driving Thailand’s industrial growth for decades.
But last September the Constitutional Court put the brakes on.
Local environmentalists successfully argued that several new projects were in breach of pollution laws.
The laws were part of the 2007 constitution, but because there have been so many changes of government in Thailand in recent years, the regulations were never properly established.
Companies could not possibly comply.
Thailand’s political turbulence left a legal loophole which was successfully exploited by the environmentalists.

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