A Greenpeace volunteer waves a windsock with a message reading “Unplug a Nuclear Future” in Thong Ching Beach, 610 km south of Bangkok.
Thong Ching Beach is one of the proposed sites for the construction of nuclear power plants. The Nakhon Si Thammarat province is known for its vast population of pink dolphins (Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphins or Sousa chinensis). The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior arrived in the province to join community movements clamoring for a future free of dangerous nuclear and coal power. Greenpeace is calling on the Thai government to get smart and phase out dirty coal and dangerous nuclear energy from the 2010 Power Development Plan, and instead invest in sustainable and long term solutions such as the massive uptake of renewable energy and the adoption of energy efficiency policies for a cleaner and greener future for the country.