Mysterious deaths of giant freshwater stingrays in the Mae Klong River. Lead contamination at Klity Creek in Kanchanaburi. The pollution of the Pong River in Khon Kaen.
There is one thing these three high-profile pollution cases which occurred at different times and in different places have in common: All were described as "accidents"
In the Khon Kaen case, a molasses tank at a sugar factory burst, leaking a huge volume of molasses -- a by-product of the sugar-making process -- into the Pong River, causing massive destruction of the... fish population in 1992.