Rampal plant: Campaigners urge PM to consider experts’ analysis
The National Committee for Saving the Sundarbans urged the prime minister to consider analysis of experts and pay no heed to the government propaganda on Rampal power plant as it is economically and environmentally destructive.
“We urge our prime minister to listen to the experts’ voices and people of the country and thereby cancel the coal-fired power plant,” Sultana Kamal, convener of the committee, said during a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital.
Dr Ranajit Sahu, an Indian air pollution control expert, over skype told the press conference that the technology proposed for the power plant is about 30 years old and such a system would never be permitted in developed countries.
“It won’t bring any difference even if the power plant is moved away another 10 to 40 kilometres, because the technology of the proposed power plant is not sufficient to reduce air pollution,” he said.
NCSS Convener Sultana at the press conference read out a summary of other experts’ opinion.
Soto Nagorik demands referendum on Rampal power plant
A pro-BNP intellectuals’ platform today demanded for holding a referendum to construct the power plant near the world’s largest mangrove forest – the Sundarbans.
Intellectuals of Soto Nagorik also called upon the prime minister to take decision on the much-talked power plant using her conscience.
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury and Prof Emajuddin Ahmed were present among others at the programme.
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