[6] Several days earlier, the court had ordered EGAT to return its Mae Mo golf course, adjacent to the open pit lignite mine, to woodland in order to help clean up the air pollution caused by EGAT's Mae Mo operations.

[7] Coal-fired power plants such as Mae Mo can release up to 150 million tonnes of CO2 over their design life of 20–25 years, according to Greenpeace-Thailand.

[8] Excavations at the open-pit lignite mine revealed what is thought to be the world's largest freshwater snail terrace.

The terrace, 12 metres deep and covering 43 rai (6.9 ha; 17 acres), is up to 13 million years old.

EGAT claimed that the cost of preservation would amount to 132.5 billion baht in lost revenue.