Content is available under creative commons attributionnoncommercialsharealike. The rampal power plant is a proposed 1,320megawatt imported coalfired power plant promoted by the bangladeshindia friendship power company limited bifpcl, a joint venture of the bangladesh power development board bpdb and indias largest power producer, ntpc limited. The 20mw power plant is a joint venture between the govt. Pdf impact of coal based power plant of rampal on the.
A recent study by united statesbased institute for energy economics and financial analysis states that the cost of electricity production at rampal power plant would be taka 9. The electricity generation cost will be determined based on the total cost of the coalfired project. Another twenty different medicinal plant samples have been collected, dried, made fine powder and the pellets have been made 7 mm dia. Government has planned a 20 mw coalfired power station at rampal. Therefore, rampal power plant will not damage rather it will preserve the sunderbans. She is bearing 16 million people in her147,570 sq km. Site preparation for the proposed orion khulna coalfired power plant has begun. Does anyone have the eia report of rampal power plant of. Construction of 1,320mw coalbased power plant in rampal. Unesco recommends cancelling and relocating rampal, and halting development of the orion power plant.
The rampal power plant is a proposed 20megawatt imported coalfired power. Pdf this presentation was for energy and environment course where i presented the environmental impact of 20 mw rampal power plant. Marchers call for cancellation of rampal coalbased power plant project, dhaka, october 2015. A financial analysis of the rampal power plant ieefa. This page was last edited on 15 january 2020, at 15. As long as i know such a thing which is against the country and the people of the country from all the side must not be preffered. As unesco made public the report recommending the rampal power plant project is cancelled and relocated to a more suitable location where it would not impact negatively on the sundarbans, payal parekh, programme director, issued the following statement. Protect sundarbans from coalfired power plants dear presidents, prime ministers, ministers of state and ministers of bangladesh and india, we are writing to express our deep concern regarding the proposed rampal and orion coal power plant projects, whose construction is being planned only 1214 km away from the sundarbans. Scrap the rampal power plant project, save the sundarbans. The coal transportation, the sox and nox, and the ashes. Rampal power plant the land in rampal was allocated on 27,december,2010 acres of land. The rampal power plant threatens the livelihoods of over two million inhabitants that are dependent upon the sundarbans forests resources.
Rampal power plant work to go ahead the daily star. Rampal power station the rampal power station is situated in rampal upazila of bagerhat district in khulna bangladesh. The samples will be irradiated by proton beam of 2. Power generation efficiency improvement project second talimarjan power project environmental impact assessment 5 figures b1 location of tpc within uzbekistan 34 b2 location of tpc 35 b3 view from the water cooling unit across to tpp1 and ttp0 beyond 37 b.
The construction work of rampal power plant will continue as unesco has endorsed the governments scientific statement at the 41st session of the world heritage committee. Mamunur rashiddemotixcorbis despite its vocal stance on. People living around the forest depend on the forests resources to fulfil their basic needs, while others use them to earn a living. Map showing the location of the coal power plant in relation to the. The cost will also be affected by the price of coal. The rampal power plant, proposed by the government of bangladesh. How antirampal power plant has turned into antiindia protest. If we the communists get the power, the plant will be relocated from rampal, he said.
It is also known as the maitree super thermal power project, which is one of eleven coal fired power stations the bangladesh power development board bpdb plans for. Rampal power plant and the sunderbans energy bangla. Columnist syed abul maksud called for a referendum to know the peoples opinion on the issue. Ntpc is already a partner in the controversial 20mw thermal power plant in rampal. Say no to rampal power plant, save sundarban facebook. Distance between the sundarbans and rampal power plant 8. Thousands to march against coal plant threat to bangladesh. As per the joint venture agreement signed between bangladesh and india, ntpc is responsible for planning, building and operating the plant. The 70 percent interest is in a row, its the responsibility of bangladesh to pay off the debt and the interest rate is also unknown andin addition to that, the number is expected to be. Seikh sharif, establishing rampal power plant conflict. Concerns have been raised regarding the impact of the coal power plant on the sundarbans with consequences for the. Establishing rampal power plant conflict between government and people in bangladesh. Rampal thermal power plant at sundarbans, bangladesh ejatlas. M wahiduzzaman and mohammed tawsif salam for alalodulal introduction there is a rising energy demand in bangladesh in proportion with the growth of its population.
Few days back i had a chance to visit rampal, a small village in bangladesh and now a site for a destructive coal fired power plant. The main plant epc contract turnkey package for the 2x 660 mw maitree super thermal power plant at rampal in bagherhat was signed on tuesday in dhaka. Hence, for 20 mw maitree super thermal power project, about bdt. Rampal power plant a devil in disguise save our green. The plan for the rampal power plant is an installed capacity of 1,320 megawatts. Rampal power plant is not economically viable dhaka. Last months signing of the contract to build the rampal coal plant in bangladesh, just a few miles from the edge of the worlds largest mangrove forest, has retriggered concerns both domestically and internationally about the controversial 20 megawatt power project. The rampal power plant, officially known as the maitree super thermal power project, is a joint venture project of bpdb of bangladesh and ntpc limited of india. This file photo of a power plant of the company in india is taken from its facebook page.
Rampal is a place that is about 20 km away from sundarbans where the proposed rampal coalbased thermal power plant is to be constructed to supply electricity to the southern part of the country. South asians for human rights sahr advocates the governments of bangladesh and india to immediately stop the construction of the coal power plant in rampal, bangladesh. Environmental impact of coal based power plant of rampal. A new power plant could devastate the worlds largest. It has been estimated that more than one million people depend on the sundarbans for their livelihood, many of whom work seasonally as fishermen and gather nontimber forest products that include nipa palm, honey, leaves and grass, according to a 2015. Environmentalists once again urged the government to cancel the rampal power plant project, saying it would pose an environmental threat to the sundarban. Bd rahmatullah, a former director general of staterun power cell, said it would be possible to generate double the capacity of rampal plant with renewable energy. A modeled carbon emission analysis of rampal power plant in. Pdf 20 mw coal based rampal power plant in bangladesh. Phd thesis will be submitted under this program to the department of physics, jahangirnagar university.
To meet the water demand for plant operation, domestic water, environmental management 9,150 m3hr equivalent to 2. Rampal power station india environment portal news. Given the near exponential growth of demand due to other factors like industrialization, we are now forced to explore nongovernment sources of energy from. The rampal power plant is a proposed 1,320megawatt. Environmental impact of coal based power plant of rampal on the. Bangladesh, india sign rampal power plant construction. A government minister asserted that the 20megawatt rampal coalfired power plant would be commissioned by 2019 although fierce critics on a site visit with him pleaded for halt to make credible environmental. Thrust for relocating rampal power plant energy bangla. The study collected several texts, official papers, and documents for further.
The environmentalists who include former caretaker government adviser, sultana kamal on sunday called upon the government to refrain from implementing coalbased rampal thermal power plant to. I donot have direct information related to rampal power plant, but you can have some idea about threats and risks posed by hydropower plant and mining as part of eia by accessing the following. Rampal power plant, sundarbans, carbonemission, green housegas, sequestration. Currently, bangladesh has an installed power generation capacity of about 12,000 megawatts.
So the proposed area is not suitable to establish the coal based power plant as the sundarbans and surrounding areas would be affected permanently by. This fund will be utilized for the development of the local people and protection of the forest. The proposed project, on an area of over 1834 acres of land, is situated 14 kilometres north of the worlds largest mangrove forest sundarbans which is a unesco world heritage site. Anti rampal power plant campaigners have called an eight hour strike or hartal in dhaka city on thursday, january 26, to protest the construction of the rampal power plant near the sunderbans. Welcome to my presentation on rampal power station 2. First of all if any thing is against the intrest of the country and for the people of the country must not be done. The rampal power plant is a proposed 1,320megawatt imported. Pdf impact of rampal coal based power plant is threatening for sundarbans territory. Bangladesh power development board bpdb2 is in the process of setting up a 1,320 mw coal fired power plant in rampal, bangladesh which is situated approx 14km from the sundarbans, the largest remaining mangrove forest in the world. The ten questions below relate to technical aspects of the proposed rampal coal power plant, and posed by arshad mansoor senior vice president at electric power research institute. The power plant also threatens the rich biodiversity of the sundarbans. The government is smearing propaganda that rampal plant will reduce local peoples dependence on sundarbans and deforestation, fishing. The power plant is being constructed 14 kilometers away from the. Released along with a clear demand to cancel the rampal power plant by advocate sultana kamal, convener of ncss, on 6 september 2016 in dhaka, bangladesh.
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