UNB, Dhaka :
The National Committee for Protection of Oil-Gas, Mineral Resource, Power and Port on Wednesday said
Bangladesh-India Friendship Company (BIFPC) resorted to falsehood by claiming that Rampal thermal power plant will not affect the environment and biodiversity of the Sundarbans.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the committee’s convener Engineer Sheikh Muhammad Shahidullah and its member secretary Prof Anu Muhammad said the company, comprised of NTPC of India and PDB of Bangladesh, insulted the movement to save the Sundarbans and resorted to falsehood over the Rampal power plant project in the company’s statement on Tuesday.
“The opposition from all except a few persons and the company came after various studies that confirmed that the coal-based power plant will cast devastating and destructive impacts on the Sundarbans,” the committee’s leaders said.
They hoped that the Prime Minister will do justice to her environmental award ‘Champions of the Earth’ by cancelling the coal-based
power plant which is going to be set up at Rampal, Bagerhat as a joint venture of Bangladesh and India.
About the allegation of the company that some groups and organisations are spreading “misleading and baseless propaganda” against the project in a bid to hamper development, they said in fact all but the company and some local and international beneficiaries are opposing the project.
BIFPC in its statement said that there will be no single activity from their side while setting up the Rampal coal-based 1320 MW power plant which may affect the environment and biodiversity of the Sundarbans.
“All, including human beings, the Sundarbans and its biodiversities, the Pashur river, birds and fishes are, totally safe from this power plant,” it said.
The National Committee for Protection of Oil-Gas, Mineral Resource, Power and Port on Wednesday said
Bangladesh-India Friendship Company (BIFPC) resorted to falsehood by claiming that Rampal thermal power plant will not affect the environment and biodiversity of the Sundarbans.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the committee’s convener Engineer Sheikh Muhammad Shahidullah and its member secretary Prof Anu Muhammad said the company, comprised of NTPC of India and PDB of Bangladesh, insulted the movement to save the Sundarbans and resorted to falsehood over the Rampal power plant project in the company’s statement on Tuesday.
“The opposition from all except a few persons and the company came after various studies that confirmed that the coal-based power plant will cast devastating and destructive impacts on the Sundarbans,” the committee’s leaders said.
They hoped that the Prime Minister will do justice to her environmental award ‘Champions of the Earth’ by cancelling the coal-based
power plant which is going to be set up at Rampal, Bagerhat as a joint venture of Bangladesh and India.
About the allegation of the company that some groups and organisations are spreading “misleading and baseless propaganda” against the project in a bid to hamper development, they said in fact all but the company and some local and international beneficiaries are opposing the project.
BIFPC in its statement said that there will be no single activity from their side while setting up the Rampal coal-based 1320 MW power plant which may affect the environment and biodiversity of the Sundarbans.
“All, including human beings, the Sundarbans and its biodiversities, the Pashur river, birds and fishes are, totally safe from this power plant,” it said.
