After successfully blocking the building of a coal-fired power plant, villagers at Ban Krud in Prachuap Khiri Khan province have teamed up again to oppose a planned steel plant in their village.

Village representative Jintana Kaewkhao said agents had contacted people last week to check whether they would allow the use of public land in the village.

They feared a steel plant, like the scrapped power plant, may generate waste water that would be discharged to the sea and damage the fertile coral reefs.

Ban Krud villagers took nearly 10 years fighting the Union Power Development (UPD) power plant before finally stopping it in 2003.