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The Sundarbans is known worldwide for “wide range of fauna, including 260 bird species, the Bengal tiger and other threatened species such as the estuarine crocodile and the Indian python.” (UNESCO World Heritage Centre, n.d.) The proposed Rampal coal-based power plant has divided the whole nation into two parties, one in the favor of the project and the other opposing the project. The party voting for the project is mainly led by the higher authorities, whereas the opposing party is mainly comprised of concerned civilians. The partiis said to have a negative impact on the ecosystem of the Sundarbans, affecting not only the wildlife, but also the local people’s lives. The objective of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis from both parties’ viewpoints and thus finding out whether the said project could be titled as state violence or not.
Bangladesh dreams to become a reach country in 2041. To make this dream true, the country needs to go through massive industrialisation. That requires huge energy. Can this energy demand be met from cleaner source? Or Coal is the only source to fuel its power plants? The article looks available options to fuel its machiens.
Fossil fuels, especially coal, are known to be “dirty energy” for emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and there is a global emphasis on renewable energy. On the other hand, Bangladesh Power Development Board is setting up more coal-fired power plants including that of Rampal power plant in an energy-deficient country, like Bangladesh. Based on this two contradictions, the paper looked into emerging challenges in energy sector and how to overcome them in order to achieving sustainable energy in Bangladesh. As we are heading towards coal energy, should we explore our own indigenous coal lying untapped in four economically accessible coal mines? Or we import to run our coal-fired power plants and keep our coal buried underground? If we explore them, what method do we follow? Open pit, underground or gasification? Having a “National Coal Policy” in draft form in last two decades, question arises, should we be using this GHG emitting fuel or looking for other alternatives? Whether we should say “No” to coal for polluting the environment and concentrate more on renewable energy? Or go for coal-based power plants?
Power generation is the most important concern of Bangladesh for sustainable development. In electricity generation Coal will play an important role for the Sustainable Future in Bangladesh. Like others Bangladesh also wants to find a way to Energy solvency by taking several Coal fired Power Plants projects. In this paper the amounts of daily carbon emission in 2030 by future coal based power plants are calculated. New technology named Scrubber by Carbon Nano Tube is only able to reduce the impact of that large amount of carbon on environment. The paper outlines the generation of power in Bangladesh with greater environmental treat which is being managed within the framework of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.
The article describes the politics behind the import based coal power plants and their current situations. It also describes such failures of some NGO's, whom are working on climate change and other shortcomings on thinking of climate change only as a technological issue.
Bangladesh, recently set her vision to dramatically developed the countries infrastructure. As a part of this vision government has given special focus on ongoing mega development projects as it has provided for yearly required fund allocations to complete the works in due time.The budget document said the government has allocated total Tk 446.3 billion or 40.32 per cent of the Tk 1.107 trillion annual development programe (ADP) outlay for 61 large and fast- track projects of seven ministries and divisions in the next financial year (FY) 2016-17.The government has also described the implementation status of 10 fast-track mega-projects of the country saying those would bring the country's economy to a new height.
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Since 2010, the governments of Bangladesh and India have been progressing with a coal-fired power plant at Rampal (Bangladesh) in the vicinity of the Sundarbans, world’s largest mangrove forest. The project saw widespread popular protests in Bangladesh and elsewhere, with scholarly reports also adding to the activism. Political leaders from the ruling party along with a number of state officials in Bangladesh also campaigned in support of the project, disregarding the project’s apparent lack of prospect in energy production and susceptibility to cause significant harm to the Sundarbans. In this essay we engage with these various representations of the Sundarbans-Rampal affairs and show how newer interest identities emerge from them, and, consequently, how state-people relation changes. Analyzing the popular activism-populism paradox, we argue that Rampal helps in picturing the oft-common global nexus that has power-hungry governments on the one side and increasingly wary and seemingly defenseless citizens on the other.
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