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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...

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  Coal-fired power plant in Barguna despite environmental concerns

  Sadiqur Rahman | Updated at 11:52pm on August 06, 2018

  The government is facilitating the implementation of a 307MW coal-fired power plant in coastal Barguna surrounded by reserved lands having wildlife and fish sanctuary....

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  Coal disappeared with ruling party’s green signal: BNP

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on July 28, 2018

  Bangladesh Nationalist Party has alleged that ‘lakhs of tonnes’ of coal were not disappeared from yard of Baropukuria coalmine without the ‘green signal’ of the...

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  Probe blames improper inventory for coal theft

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:16am on July 26, 2018

  A probe committee submitted its report on Wednesday blaming improper maintenance of inventory for disappearance of coal while...

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  Power cuts, low voltage disrupts life in Rangpur division

  Zakir Hossain . Rangpur | Updated at 11:45pm on July 25, 2018

  Most people in Rangpur division have been facing random power cuts and low voltage for hours following closure of the last unit of Barapukuria Coal...

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  Probe blames improper inventory for coal theft

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:58pm on July 25, 2018

  A probe committee submitted its report on Wednesday blaming improper maintenance of inventory for disappearance of coal while a case was filed against 19 Barapukuria...

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  Left parties demand punishment for Barapukuria coal theft, BB gold scam

  Staff correspondent | Updated at 01:06am on July 25, 2018

  Left leaders at a protest rally in Dhaka on Tuesday demanded punishment for those involved in corruption in Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited and gold scam in...