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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...