Another important part of this circuit is the relative success of Thai environmental activists. Since the late 1980s, Thai local community groups and NGOs have forcefully opposed new large power plants within Thailand, punctuated by conspicuous protests against the Pak Mun hydropower dam and Mae Moh coal power plant (Middleton 2012). In April 2012, a local community group, the Network of Pak Pang River Basin, marched to demand that EGAT scrap its plans to build a coal-fired power plant project in Nakhon Si Thammarat
vince (Greenpeace 2013). EGAT has yet to build this power plant. Overall, civil society has been mostly successful in demanding that the government hold public hearings about new power plants in the country (Middleton 2012).