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Courtesy: Z I Mamun/Jamuna TV Video Edit: Zubuyer Kaolin Rampal Power Plant and other deathtraps: A joint partnership between India’s state owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and the Bangladesh Power Development Board promises to bring us our nation’s largest power plant, even though most of us do not want it on our land. Just 14 kilometers north of the Sundarbans, covering 1834 acres of land at barely sea-level, the proposed 1320 MW coal-fired power plant project has put the livelihood of 500,000 inhabitants under threat with it’s construction already underway, and was met with heavy protests last year. The construction of the coal-fired power plant in Rampal is not the only industrial development that is underway. Despite all the protests against Rampal, the government still allowed another local power supplier Orion Power Ltd to set up a 565 megawatts coal-fired power plant near #Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. The Orion power plant is being developed on 200 acres of land only 12 kilometres from the Sundarbans, without the legally required environmental clearance from the authorities, widely reported in media. Most of the land plots between Mongla and Joymoni have been sold to private enterprises. Furthermore, the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, a government entity, has built 14 reservoir tanks in Mongla with a capacity of 100,000 tones. A group of industries engaged in the garments business has bought 60 acres of land at Joymoni. Another company has bought land to set up a ship-breaking yard in the same area. Industrial plots for sale in the Mongla area are being advertised online ‘For Ship-Yard, Ship-Breaking Yard, Oil Tanker, Cement Factory, LP Gas Plant and Other’s Industries Only.’ Lets not forget that legally, no industrial development is allowed within ten kilometers from a Reserved Forest without the permission from the Government and a clearance certificate from the Department of #Environment.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:05:09 +0000

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