Disastrous rampal PP- Another chanakyan rip off of BD.

[Luffy 500]

The awami bastards are planning to inaugurate the work on the disastrous Indian sponsored and schemed Rampal PP in Bangladeshi sundarbans next month in Oct. Amazingly Indian states didn't allow NTPC to construct such a disastrous PP in their home country but in BD's case awami bastards allowed it in spite of all environmental experts and economists arguing and protesting against it.

- No feasibility study or its impact on environment was ever carried out.
- It will release 142 tons of Sulphur dioxide, 85 tons of Nitrogen dioxide & huge amount of fly ash everyday.
- It will adversely effect the shrimp industry.
- Serious health hazard for the surrounding villages of sundarbans.
-Possible extinction of numerous plant species.
- Disastrous for the survival of already endangered animal species.
- 50000 people in adjoining areas need to be evacuated to facilitate this chanakyan project.

-The source of coal is yet to be sorted out and the price till now is yet to be fixed while India will take back 50% of the power produced from this plant.
- GOI during the singing of the treaty pressed that GOB will have to buy the electricity at rates the central Indian GOV sells to its State govs. Any less than this would be against the rule of the Power regulatory commission of India. ( Are we now a state of India or something? )

Daily Amardesh || 22 September, 2013, Sunday
রামপালে বিদ্যুেকন্দ্র নির্মাণে প্রস্তুতি চূড়ান্ত : ধ্বংস হবে সুন্দরবন লাà¦* হবে à¦*ারতের

ভারত ও বাংলাদেশ যৌথভাবে এ বিদ্যুেকন্দ্র নির্মাণ করলেও কয়লা কোন দেশ থেকে আনা হবে, বাংলাদেশের পরিবেশের কি পরিমাণ ক্ষতি হবে এবং উত্পাদিত বিদ্যুতের দাম কত হবে—তা এখনও চূড়ান্ত হয়নি।

চুক্তির স্বাক্ষর অনুষ্ঠানে ভারত সরকারের প্রতিনিধি বলেছেন, এ বিদ্যুেকন্দ্রে উত্পাদিত বিদ্যুত্ বাংলাদেশকে ভারত সরকার নির্ধারিত মূল্যেই কিনতে হবে। ভারতের কেন্দ্রীয় সরকার রাজ্য সরকারের কাছে যে মূল্যে বিদ্যুত্ সরবরাহ করে থাকে একই দাম বাংলাদেশকেও দিতে হবে। রাজ্য সরকারকে দেয়া মূল্যের চেয়ে কম মূল্য নির্ধারণ করা হলে সেটা হবে ভারতের পাওয়ার রেগুলেটরি কমিশনের আইনের পরিপন্থী। ভারত সরকার এই আইন কোনো অবস্থায়ই লঙ্ঘন করবে না বলেও জানান তিনি।


এছাড়া গ্যাস দূষণের কারণে সুন্দরবনের অনন্য সম্পদ প্রাকৃতিকভাবে জন্মানো গরান, গেওয়া ও কেওড়া গাছ বিলুপ্ত হওয়ার আশঙ্কা আছে। নির্মাণকাজ চালানোর সময় অতিরিক্ত নৌযান চলাচল এবং ড্রেজিংয়ের সময় মাছের চলাচলের পথে বিঘ্ন সৃষ্টি হবে এবং চিংড়ি মাছের প্রজনন বাধা পাবে।

প্রতিবেদনে আরও উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে যে, এক হাজার ৩২০ মেগাওয়াট ক্ষমতাসম্পন্ন এই বিদ্যুেকন্দ্র চালু হওয়ার পর এই কেন্দ্র থেকে প্রতিদিন ১৪২ টন সালফার ডাইঅক্সাইড এবং ৮৫ টন নাইট্রোজেন ডাইঅক্সাইড বের হবে। এই দুটো গ্যাস নিঃসরণ হওয়ার ফলে সুন্দরবনের আশপাশ এলাকায় এর ক্ষতিকর প্রভাব পড়বে। রিপোর্টে ১৯৯৭ সালের পরিবেশ সংরক্ষণ আইনের উল্লেখ করে সুন্দরবনকে গ্রামীণ ও আবাসিক এলাকা বলে অভিহিত করা হয়েছে।

ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের আইন বিভাগের অধ্যাপক ড. আসিফ নজরুল বলেছেন, ভারতের প্রতি এ সরকার কতটা নতজানু তা রামপাল বিদ্যুেকন্দ্র প্রকল্পটির দিকে তাকালেই বোঝা যায়। ভারতের পরিবেশ অধিদফতর ভারতে এ বিদ্যুেকন্দ্র নির্মাণের অনুমোদন দেয়নি। অথচ আমাদের সরকার সুন্দরবনের অস্তিত্ব বিলুপ্ত করে এ বিদ্যুেকন্দ্র নির্মাণে চুক্তিবদ্ধ হয়েছে। এটি আত্মঘাতী সিদ্ধান্ত। বিদ্যুত্ পাওয়ার আশা থেকে সরকার আবারও নিজ পায়ে কুড়াল মেরে এ প্রকল্প বাস্তবায়ন করতে চলেছে।

রামপালে বিদ্যুেকন্দ্র নির্মাণে প্রস্তুতি চূড়ান্ত : ধ্বংস হবে সুন্দরবন লাà¦* হবে à¦*ারতের

 

[Luffy 500]

More reasons to stop Rampal power plant

It is indeed unfortunate that while the Indian state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation is not allowed to set up any thermal power plant within 25 kilometres of any of India’s forest reserves, wildlife sanctuaries, agricultural plots, residential areas and others, the Awami League-led government has allowed Bangladesh Power Development Board to float a joint venture company with the company to set up a coal-fired plant at Rampal in Bagerhat, just four kilometres off the ecologically sensitive area of Sundarban.

According to a report published in New Age Xtra on Friday, the NTPC has been denied approval for setting up a thermal plant, similar in nature of the proposed Rampal plant, on a number of occasions by the Indian central and state authorities dealing with environmental concerns in the past few years. To be precise, the company failed to get approval of the Indian central green panel (Green Tribunal) in 2010 for constructing a thermal power plant, original location for which was Gajmara in the same state, at Gadarwara of Madhya Pradesh as ‘a vast portion of double crop agricultural land’ reportedly comprised the site. The environment and state authorities of Orissa have, moreover, voiced disapproval of the project on the same pleas when the NTPC shifted its location to Daripalli in the state.

What is more intriguing is that the government appears hell bent on implementing the project despite green activists at large, including experts, being unrelenting on demand for shifting the project’s location to some other areas, if not scrapping it altogether, not at least ecologically sensitive. The latter argue that the plant, if put in place, will require around 50,000 people of the villages located in the adjoining areas of the plant to get evacuated. Additionally, in line with the predictions made by environment and ecology experts, the plant will release various toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, sulphur dioxide and a huge amount of fly ash, thereby, putting the surrounding areas and, most importantly, Sundarban at grave risk.
In fact, the Rampal plant is another poignant pointer to the incumbents’ predilections for opening the country land to Indian investment even at the cost of making the land a dumping ground for the projects rejected by the Indian people concerned about their overall adverse impact on public health and environment. It is also important to recall here that the 1320MW power plant costing $ 1.8 billion is being constructed allegedly ignoring the relevant laws of the land. The government began to acquire 1,834 acres of land in the proposed area on December 27, while the project is yet to get an official environmental clearance. Not only that, defying High Court directives issued on more occasions than one, the BPDB, in association with the local government, started filling the rivers and canals running through the project area quite before the completion of the feasibility study over the project.

People haunted for long by power woes definitely welcome investments, local and foreign, in the power but not at the cost of environment and ecology in any part of the country. Hence, the incumbents immediately need to address the concerns made so far about the Rampal plant.

More reasons to stop Rampal power plant


Another thread by @idune
http://www.defence.pk/forums/bangladesh-defence/254965-more-reasons-stop-rampal-power-plant.html

 

[Luffy 500]

Rampal plant feared to hamper shrimp industry

The proposed 1,320-megawatt Rampal power plant near the Sundarbans will expose the country’s multi-million dollar shrimp industry to serious threat as the core shrimp culture is based in the area, said experts and stockholders.

They said although the department of environment approved the environment impact assessment report of the coal-based power plant, but the shrimp industry will face severe negative impact.
‘The Sundarbans area hosts the black tiger shrimp which is a major export product. If the government allows the Rampal power plant, it will damage the natural environment of the area and living place of black tiger,’ Bangladesh Shrimp and Fish Foundation chairman Syed Mahmudul Huq told New Age.

He said shrimp is already suffering from a number of problems because of lack of government support.‘In such a situation, if the natural system of Sundarbans faces any imbalance because of the power plant then the entire industry will be destroyed,’ he said.Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company, a joint venture between the PDB and the NTPC with 50:50 shares, is implementing the power project at Rampal in Bagerhat district near the Sundarbans.

The environment department last month gave green signal to the power plant which was highly criticised by the environmentalists and civil society.Several businessmen engaged to shrimp production and processing expressed their concern to New Age but denied to comment because of the sensitivity of the issue.

‘This is very threatening for our industry. In Sundarbans we culture the shrimp as the water condition of the area supports it perfectly. Now, if the power plant is established the natural balance of the entire area will be at risk and so the production of shrimps,’ said one businessman.
Asked about the risk of shrimp culture because of the power plant, fisheries experts said there were some points of concern on the issue.

‘Any plant can harm the natural environment if the waste disposal measures are not accurate. In this case, I don’t know the measurements precisely, so it is difficult to comment,’ Dhaka University fisheries department associate professor Md Mamun Chowdhury told New Age.
‘For example, the power plant intakes huge amount of water. When those are discharged after use, the temperature rises than usual. If the plant cannot manage to release water in regular temperature then it could possibly becomes an issue of concern,’ he said.

Another DU professor unwilling to be named, said that the Rampal power plant will definitely affect the fisheries of the entire area. ‘There is no chance of avoiding the pollution of the area if the power plant comes into function. The natural balance of the entire Sundarbans will be at risk,’ he said.

In the first month of the current financial year 2013–14, overall shrimp export increased by 33.91 per cent from that of July 2012, according to Export Promotion Bureau data.Shrimp exporters also exceeded export target by 33.40 per cent in July as they exported shrimp worth $56.55 million against the target of $42.23 million for the month, the data showed. In the last FY, shrimp export fell short of around $90 million because of price fluctuation on the international market, exporters said. Bangladesh exported shrimp worth $454.43 million against the target
of 545.23 million for the year.

Bangladeshi businessmen recently became hopeful about the industry after the US imposed additional duties on Bangladesh’s competitor countries.

Rampal plant feared to hamper shrimp industry

 

[Lone]

We deserve this. If you have some intelligentsia in your country which, despite all of the heinous deed can support and act for the regime, what else you expect? No BAL 'buddhi protibondi' is talking against this project. Even BNP is not considering it as a major issue. We deserve to perish.

 

[Luffy 500]

We deserve this. If you have some intelligentsia in your country which, despite all of the heinous deed can support and act for the regime, what else you expect? No BAL 'buddhi protibondi' is talking against this project. Even BNP is not considering it as a major issue. We deserve to perish.

Awami dalal "bhuddijibis" are worst form of animals this country has been burdened with. Opportunistic thugs these maggots are. Calling them part of the intelligentsia is a misnomer. Neutral and pro-BD intelligentsia now want to avoid the term "bhuddijibi" since the word got associated with awami dalaliness.

 

[animelive]

this is just fvcked up. when is this project starting?

 

[PlanetSoldier]

Awami dalal "bhuddijibis" are worst form of animals this country has been burdened with. Opportunistic thugs these maggots are. Calling them part of the intelligentsia is a misnomer. Neutral and pro-BD intelligentsia now want to avoid the term "bhuddijibi" since the word got associated with awami dalaliness.

@Luffy 500 : Can you tell us what's the role of opposition party in such scenario.....shouldn't they come on street protesting it and remain on street until the project is postponed? Did your BNP raise its voice or what did BNP do last more than 4.5 years for the people of BD? Every opposition party has equal responsibility about the people like the govt. and BNP thinks it has only one issue....election under caretaker govt. because they need power. But the power hunger is not peoples' demand, it's only a party's demand so they can suck the people when they're on driving seat. So, this way the govt. becomes autocratic in a country when there's no one to protest anything that goes against the interest of people, country. There's simple math...fight for the people, people will be with you. Unfortunately, both these parties and people are dumb in BD.

 

[Roybot]

This is a RAW conspiracy to destroy the Bangladeshi side of Sunderban so only India is left with the sunderban legacy :

 

[Anubis]

@Luffy 500 : Can you tell us what's the role of opposition party in such scenario.....shouldn't they come on street protesting it and remain on street until the project is postponed? Did your BNP raise its voice or what did BNP do last more than 4.5 years for the people of BD? Every opposition party has equal responsibility about the people like the govt. and BNP thinks it has only one issue....election under caretaker govt. because they need power. But the power hunger is not peoples' demand, it's only a party's demand so they can suck the people when they're on driving seat. So, this way the govt. becomes autocratic in a country when there's no one to protest anything that goes against the interest of people, country. There's simple math...fight for the people, people will be with you. Unfortunately, both these parties and people are dumb in BD.

Elias Ali was advocating against Rampal....he disappeared!

 

[PlanetSoldier]

Elias Ali was advocating against Rampal....he disappeared!

You better change your country flag to your current location as well.

 

[Anubis]

You better change your country flag to your current location as well.

Why??

 

[PlanetSoldier]

Why??

Probably you've memorized Bush/Cheny/Obama well....Elias Ali was advocating against Tipaimukh Dam that india is building along our border at Sylhet area. Also, if you have overall knowledge about here in BD, you wouldn't have argued with this point. Last 4.5 years BNP as an opposition party did nothing for the people here. Their only movement is election under caretaker govt. which is a very nature of BAL/BNP politics all the time, they never voiced for the people and still these clueless masses are electing them. Tell me when was BNP on street against the power plant at Rampal?

 

[Luffy 500]

@Luffy 500 : Can you tell us what's the role of opposition party in such scenario.....shouldn't they come on street protesting it and remain on street until the project is postponed? Did your BNP raise its voice or what did BNP do last more than 4.5 years for the people of BD? Every opposition party has equal responsibility about the people like the govt. and BNP thinks it has only one issue....election under caretaker govt. because they need power. But the power hunger is not peoples' demand, it's only a party's demand so they can suck the people when they're on driving seat. So, this way the govt. becomes autocratic in a country when there's no one to protest anything that goes against the interest of people, country. There's simple math...fight for the people, people will be with you. Unfortunately, both these parties and people are dumb in BD.

Bro, I get what U R saying. BNP is a spineless party run by morons, that's 100% true. But it never was a party suited for street politics. Politically they R toddlers compared to facist devilish mentality AL. The idiots lacked the comprehension of power politics and were utterly naive to find themselves oppressed over the last 7 years.

Some reasons of their spineless stance I can think is:

-not only JI but also BNP has been fighting for its existence over the last 7 years since the time of MUA regime.

- BNP was never a party meant for street protest. They R a spineless party in BD's politics .

-Most leaders have political cases against them.

-Whenever they gave street protest many people criticized them & were averse toward hartals no matter how justifiable it was. Not to mention the massive media power AL had to project their propaganda.

- The party has been forced to the brink of extinction by the former MUA-FUA regime. It took time for them to reorganize. Compared to that AL was rather rejuvenated by the Indo-US backed regime.

- Its my personal opinion, that BKZ didn't/not issuing much street protest is because she wants to make it clear once & for all that BNP and AL's politics are fundementally different. She organized massive rallies and long marches which were also balantly obstructed by AL maggots. BNP never gave 173/196 days of hartals even before but yet they are often equated with AL. Lets see how well they can organize protest or whatever they R calling it after 25th OCT.

- At the end of the day autocracy and facism get kicked out the hard way. Facist try to destory all opposition till they get extince themselves. It will take time to kick out AL since they are inherently facist.

But yet they should have voiced their opposition to such disastrous deals. They did voiced opposition to many deals but not to the extent expected from a opposition party. Ilias ali was against tipaimukh and we all know what happened to him. They have plenty of opportunistic crooks in their party as well. Initially they were correctly against sell out Transit deal but then under the awami media harping and intl pressure they changed their stance.

But all of these aside the most important issue grasping the state is the CT issue. Hasina abolished a settled politically acceptable norm of holding election for reasons obvious to us all. Bangladeshis don't turst election under ruling party and this is the reality of BD proved time & again. U can't accept BNP to just bow down to the wishes of Hasina's desire for permanant power. This country can not afford such awami wishes.

AL historically has been facist. We BDs allowed them to survive in this country and we are all responsible for the current state of affairs. U are assuming both AL and BNP are the same when it comes to power politics and that BD is a typical 3rd world democracy but the truth is currently we are a 4th world autocracy. U are not taking into account that its not BNP that is known for street vandalism like 28th OCT 2006, the abolition of CT system, Pilkhanna massacre, agreeing to free transit or rampal etc. 1/11 happened for precisely that reason. Dadas wanted a party that can do all that and they got it.

I know U are pro-army but even that most respected institution have been compromised after the horrendous pilkhana massacre. What other choices do U have other than hoping for the reinstation of CT system & a fair election so that we can kick out the awami dalals from power first?

P.S: BTW I am not in any way defending their spineless mute stance in defending national interest. They are 100% at fault for their ineffectiveness as the main opp. party. But there are many other things at play here IMHO and hence they can't squarely be equated with AL when it comes to their respective desire for power IMO.

 

[livingdead]

Why??

mate your avatar sux

 

[notsuperstitious]

Bangladeshi mohammedans need the power, they are resisting for no reason. And if BD environmental laws are being violated, all they have to do it go to courts. In India lots of projects have been halted / modified by courts on such grounds. But that would be too difficult for the mohammedans instead just use unverifiable claims for propaganda articles...