Stop activities against national interest
The National Committee for Protection of Oil-Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports yesterday demanded that the government stop activities, particularly in the country's power sector and ports, undertaken against national interests.
“We are concerned to see that while focus over [11th parliamentary] election is growing across the country, activities against national interest continue,” it said in a press statement.
The government is allowing India to use the Chattogram port without maintaining any transparency. Now, it is attempting to build a floated LNG terminal there without conducting feasibility study, which will put the port under threat, it said.
Besides, the authorities signed a contract with Russia-based company Gazprom to dig gas wells in three gas fields, although the company charges three times than the government-run Bapex.
Gazprom previously dug 15 wells in different parts of the country, but no gas were found there, said the joint statement by convener Sheikh Md Shahidullah and member secretary Anu Muhammad of the committee.
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