Public Forum Map Ta Phut Industries - Sure to Continue? Look Back from the 'Water Crisis' to 'Air Crisis' Challenging the Right to Information Organizers Campaign for Alternative Industry Network Greenpeace Southeast Asia Global Community Monitor 6th October 2005 8.30 am. – 4.00 pm. Jumpot-Panthip Room, Faculty of Political Sciences, Chulalongkorn University Objective: To facilitate discussion on environmental problems and crisis in the Eastern Seaboard Region To present results of Map Ta Phut air monitoring and sampling under 'Thailand Bucket Brigade' project To facilitate brainstorming and analysis of environmental crisis resulting from the on going industrial development in Map Ta Phut and Eastern Seaboard. And to present alternatives on the basis of community's right to know of information and social and environmental justice Agenda: 08.30-09.00 Registration 09.00-09.15 Opening Speech by Vasant Panich – commissioner, National Human Rights Commission 09.15-09.45 Presentation1 Industry Development in Map Ta Phut: look back from the 'Water Crisis' to 'Air Crisis' By Penchom Tang – coordinator, CAIN 09.45-10.00 VDO – Thailand Bucket Brigade 10.00-10.30 'Air Crisis' at Map Ta Phut – Results from the Thai Bucket Brigade air monitoring by Tara Buakamsri – campaigner, GPSEA 10.30-10.45 Tea/Coffee Break 10.45-11.15 Community Air Monitoring Around the Globe By Denny Larson – director, GCM 11.15-12.30 Questions/Answers and Discussion 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-15.00 Forum Challenging the Right to Information: Map Ta Phut Industrial Development - Sonthi Kotchawat – Office of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy and Planning - Suchata Chinajit – Thailand Research Fund - Arpa Wangkieat – Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Rangsit University - Promporn Isarangura Na Ayuthaya – The Federation of Thai Industries - Chareon Detch-kum – representatives from communities affected by Map Ta Phut industrial pollution - Sutthi Atchasai – representatives from communities affected by the water crisis in Rayong province Moderator: Penchom Tang 15.00-16.00 Discussion and Conclusion