Indigenous people 'under threat' from Asia clean energy push Tuesday, 9 February 2021 01:00 GMT ARCHIVE PHOTO: A worker is seen at a solar power plant in Phetchaburi province, Thailand, August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha About our Climate coverage We focus on the human and development impacts of climate change Share: * Rush for renewable energy hurting rural and indigenous communities disproportionately * Violations include land rights and indigenous rights abuses, displacement, violence * Projects receive government incentives, less scrutiny and are fast-tracked By Rina Chandran BAN KHU, Thailand, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Muhammad Lamoh had no inkling that his small village of Ban Khu in southern Thailand would be key to the nation's renewable energy goals, until local authorities called a community meeting to inform them of a plan to build a biomass plant.