Barisal Correspondent :
Prof. Anu Muhammad, Member Secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Tuesday noon called on the government to refrain from making false and confusing statements regarding the proposed coal based thermal power plant at Rampal in Sundarban forest region.
While the prime minister awarded ‘champion of the earth’ prize for her role in saving environment, them how she could allow death sentences of Sundarban forest, Anu asked.
Addressing as Chief Guest of the first district conference of Samajtantrik Chhatra Front held at Ashwini Kumar Hall of Barisal, Anu Muhammad said ignoring the reports of the experts and UNESCO, government and the friendship company claiming that the Rampal power plant would not be harmful for Sundarbans, the biggest mangrove forest.
The people of the country convinced that the Rampal Power Plant would affect the forest and the nature. About 40 lakhs people of the Sudarbans area will loss their source of income and more than 40 million people of greater Barisal and Khulna region in Southern Bangladesh would be affected if the power plant would be constructed at Rampal, Anu Muhammad added.
Anu said they will continue their programmes at protesting construction of that power plant in Sundarban region to compel the government to cancel or shift the project.
While India, another partner of Sundarban forest region dropped such power plants to save the nature, then Bangladesh is taking project to destroy Sundarbans.
The conference was inaugurated by Rabindranath Roy, member-secretary of the district committee of NCPOGMRPO and presided by Dr. Manisha Chakraborty, district president of SCF.
Among others Razekuzzaman, central leader of BSD, Imran Habib Rumon, central president of SCF, Badruddoza Soikat, district organizer of BSD.
Prof. Anu Muhammad, Member Secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Tuesday noon called on the government to refrain from making false and confusing statements regarding the proposed coal based thermal power plant at Rampal in Sundarban forest region.
While the prime minister awarded ‘champion of the earth’ prize for her role in saving environment, them how she could allow death sentences of Sundarban forest, Anu asked.
Addressing as Chief Guest of the first district conference of Samajtantrik Chhatra Front held at Ashwini Kumar Hall of Barisal, Anu Muhammad said ignoring the reports of the experts and UNESCO, government and the friendship company claiming that the Rampal power plant would not be harmful for Sundarbans, the biggest mangrove forest.
The people of the country convinced that the Rampal Power Plant would affect the forest and the nature. About 40 lakhs people of the Sudarbans area will loss their source of income and more than 40 million people of greater Barisal and Khulna region in Southern Bangladesh would be affected if the power plant would be constructed at Rampal, Anu Muhammad added.
Anu said they will continue their programmes at protesting construction of that power plant in Sundarban region to compel the government to cancel or shift the project.
While India, another partner of Sundarban forest region dropped such power plants to save the nature, then Bangladesh is taking project to destroy Sundarbans.
The conference was inaugurated by Rabindranath Roy, member-secretary of the district committee of NCPOGMRPO and presided by Dr. Manisha Chakraborty, district president of SCF.
Among others Razekuzzaman, central leader of BSD, Imran Habib Rumon, central president of SCF, Badruddoza Soikat, district organizer of BSD.
They said Sundarbans is a magnificent and unique ecosystem of the world will face an existential question if a coal power plant to be set up at Rampal.
The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, largely depends on water to maintain bio-diversity in the region. If water is contaminated at one point, the entire forest would suffer.
The Sundarbans has a special role in the fight against climate change effects. We can’t afford to lose the Sundarbans, they added.
And if we follow standard cost-benefit analysis and include environmental and social cost into the calculation, electricity from coal becomes the costliest electricity, they told.
