AN ADMINISTRATIVE organisation’s meeting to consider Thung Kham Co’s licence extension to use forestland for gold-mining operations in Loei’s Wang Saphung district was called off yesterday at the last minute amid protests by local residents.

FOUR petitions to stop a new gold-mine concession, end existing gold-mining operations, scrap the minerals bill and evacuate people from pollution-affected areas were presented to the government yesterday by protesters from 12 provinces covered by the gol