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Japan, S. Korea push ahead with Vietnam coal plant
Agence France-Presse. Tokyo | Updated at 04:18pm on December 30, 2020
Japan and South Korea are pushing ahead with a controversial coal plant in Vietnam and will provide $1.8 billion in loans for the project, despite...
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Japanese giant Toshiba retreats from coal-fired power stations
Agence France-Presse. Tokyo | Updated at 11:20am on November 11, 2020
Japanese engineering giant Toshiba will stop constructing new coal-fired power plants and shift to renewable energy in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a...
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China, India using Bangladesh as coal dumping ground: experts
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 05:12pm on July 26, 2020
China and India were using Bangladesh as a dumping ground for coal as the country opted to increase its dependence on coal to 30 per...
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Oil-gas committee rejects budget
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 03:13pm on June 14, 2020
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Sunday demanded that the government immediately scrap its proposed budget that prioritised...
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Coal power plant cluster poses health risk: study
Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:21am on May 06, 2020
As Bangladesh is developing the world’s 4th largest coal-fired power plants cluster along a 50-km stretch of Barguna-Patuakhali coast, a new study released Tuesday warned...
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Government mustn’t proceed with coal-fired power
| Updated at 12:00am on December 02, 2019
THE environmental impact of coal-fired power plants is a globally acknowledged phenomenon to the extent that many developed countries have already began the process to...
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Coal-based power plants endanger Cox’s Bazar: BAPA
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:35am on November 23, 2019
Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan at a press conference on Friday said the under-implementation coal-fired power plants in Cox’s Bazar would endanger life, livelihood and ecology of...
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Power plants account for 12pc deaths caused by air pollution in Bangladesh: Lancet
Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:44am on November 15, 2019
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report released globally Thursday revealed that coal fired and other power plants were responsible for 12 per...
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Rampal Power Plant’s carbon emissions to adversely affect Sunderbans: HC
M Moneruzzaman | Updated at 12:00am on August 28, 2019
Sunderbans will definitely be adversely affected by huge carbon emissions from the coal-fired power plant, the High Court Division said on Tuesday without mentioning the...