

Jun 28, 2021
| Staff Correspondent
A platform of green activists has called upon the government of Bangladesh to cancel the under-construction Rampal coal-fired power plant near the Sunderbans and Banshkhali power plant in Chattogram considering their damaging impacts on public health and environment.
Reacting on the government’s recent decision to scrap 10 coal-fired power plant projects in a move to revise the country’s power sector master plan, they said that the government should cancel the Rampal power plant first on the grounds that it would cause more damage to eth Sunderbans and environment as well.
‘The government has now scrapped 10 coal-fired power plant projects and it would scrap more such projects. This is the ultimate fate of these projects,’ Jahangirnagar University economics professor Anu Muhammad told a press conference held virtually by Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt (BWGED) on Monday.
He also asked for scrapping the Matarbari power plant project funded by Japan, said a press release sent by member secretary Hasan Mehedi of the Group.
Banshkhali coal-fired power plant, a joint venture of S Alam Group of Bangladesh, is financed by a consortium of Chinese Banks including the Bank of China as the lead arranger and the Export-Import Bank of China being the export credit agency, according to the Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt.
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