Activists of Pragatishil Chhatra Jote, an alliance of Left-leaning student organisations in Bangladesh, on Tuesday blocked Dhaka roads to protest against a $1.5 billion power plant near Sundarbans,
The planet’s largest mangrove forest could be facing serious trouble in the form of two new coal-fired power plants, environmentalists say — and they’re urging the United Nations to draw greater at
The Rampal Power Plant is a proposed 1,320-megawatt imported coal-fired power plant promoted by the Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Limited (BIFPCL), a joint venture of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and India’s largest power producer, NTPC Limited.
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Infrastructure and development activities in and around sanctuaries and national parks, 14/12/2015. The Standing Committee of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has not taken any decision ‘not to consider any activity in and around Wildlife Sanctuaries and National Parks’. The details of the decisions taken in the 36th meeting of the Committee held on 4th November 2015 are given in the Annexure.
A government minister asserted that the 1320-megawatt Rampal coal-fired power plant would be commissioned by 2019 although fierce critics on a site visit with him pleaded for halt to make credible
DHAKA : The National Committee for Protection of Oil, Gas, Mineral Resource, Power and Ports (Oil-Gas Committee) on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra
A South Asian rights group today called upon Bangladesh government to halt Rampal power plant construction in the Sundarbans until cleared by environmentalists.
The government will assess impact of the proposed 1320MW coal-fired power plant on the Sundarbans after the World Heritage Centre, Paris and local environmentalists have expressed concern over sett
The proposed 1320MW Rampal coal-fired power plant needs an independent body of environmental experts to monitor its ecological compliances required to meet as per the Environmental Impact Assessmen
