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Today, Thursday 26 August, marks the 15th anniversary of coal murders in Phulbari where three young people Al Amin (11), Mohammad Saleqin (13), and Tarikul Islam (18) were shot dead for protesting against a 600MW open cast coal mine in 2006. More than two hundred people were injured in a non-violent demonstration of 80,000 people [.]
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In sharp contrast, the GCM officials observe that the Phulbari mine will help the country in generating up desired level of electricity. It will also move the country faster towards to its goal of getting 50 per cent of some 20,000 mw electricity to be needed in the country from the coal-fired power plants by 2021, energy experts said.
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The posts focused on Sheikh Hasina's support for a proposed coal-fired power plant in Rampal in ... which many environmental activists oppose as it could have a damaging effect on Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. ... (Phulbari Coal Project is another proposed coal mine which has been put on hold after strong resistance from ...
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This Is Blockadia. Regular People Blocking the Fossil Fuel Chain. Daria Rivin, Alice Owen. November 4, 2017. As world leaders prepare to meet in Germany to negotiate climate action at COP23, activists are putting words into action by blockading a nearby coal mine. Their message is that leaders need to grasp the urgency of keeping fossil fuels ...
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31st August. This news from Phulbari Solidarity following their celebration of a decade of resistance to UK company GCM's open cast coal mine plans, and commemorating the death of three protesters shot by paramilitary forces in 2006. Friday the 26th August, marked a decade of halt to plans by an AIM-listed British company, Global Coal
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Phulbari Coal Mine, Bangladesh - paused Mining Machine, Excavator Srs 1300 24/5.Albert Hyseni After reports a nearby coal mine had caused land damage and water shortages, roughly 2000 protestors...
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On 27 January 2013 a Bangladesh parliamentary committee accused the British-based coal company GCM of failing to have a valid deal with the Bangladesh government for any exploration or mining in Phulbari since 2006. Before two weeks had gone by, GCM's Finance Director, Graham Taggart, resigned amid a flurry of protests in London and Bangladesh.
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A massive open-cast coal mine was proposed for Phulbari in 1994, with the support of the government and international financial organisations. Threatened by displacement, the apparently powerless community mobilised against the mine. Allied with the national and the transnational activist organisations, they successfully stopped the mine.
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This included GCM Resources, a London-based company that wants to exploit the Phulbari coal mine in Bangladesh — a controversial project opposed by local communities and repressed by a paramilitary force of the Bangladeshi government that opened fire on protesters opposing the mine.
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favour of the Phulbari project on the basis of environmental and social impact studies included in a Definitive Feasibility Study carried out since April 2004.3 The Phulbari project is an open-pit mine.4 In order to access the coal seams, it is reported that between 140 and 300 metres of earth will need to be removed, affecting an area of 59 ...
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Located in an agricultural region that is home to thousands of farming and indigenous families, the Phulbari Coal Project has been fiercely opposed by Bangladeshi citizens for over six years. Regardless, the UK-based company pursuing the project, Global Coal Management Resources, or GCM (formerly the Asia Energy Corporation), is expressing ...
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Sep 3, 2006When Asia Energy signed a provisional agreement with the government in 1998, coal fetched £14.70 a tonne. Today, thanks to the soaring demand, it can fetch £52.50 a tonne if the quality is as high...
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The UK NCP further regrets that GCM has failed to update its environmental and human rights impact assessment for the project, as recommended its final statement of 2014. The complainants take the NCP´s statement as further evidence that if the Phulbari coal mine goes ahead, it will be a disaster for people as well as the environment. More details
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The Phulbari coal is high volatile bituminous coal. It has low ash (average 15%) and low sulfur content (<1%) and therefore suitable for both power generation and for producing semi-soft coking coal. ... Environmentalists in all countries oppose mining; oppose burning of coal. But nowhere they can ride over policy makers to keep mining ...
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Exploration expenditure relating to the Phulbari Coal Project amounted to £3,286,000 for the twelve months (June 2006: £7,643,000). The Group completed the feasibility study and reduced activity while awaiting approval from the Government of Bangladesh to proceed with the next stage of the Phulbari Coal Project.
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Phulbari Solidarity Group September 23, 2021 · GCM Resources [LON:GCM] was propping up the index today, with the minnow down by 22%. China has announced that it will stop developing coal-fired power plants overseas and this has shaken the miner which has been partnering with the Chinese on such projects.
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The UN human rights experts are concerned for good reason. The Phulbari Coal Project would displace hundreds of thousands of people, including entire villages of vulnerable indigenous people, posing "an immediate threat to safety and standards of living.". The project would also threaten access to safe drinking water for 220,000 people ...
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the international secretariat of the world organisation against torture (omct), on the basis of reliable information received, expresses its concern that communities affected by the proposed phulbari open-pit coal mine in the dinajpur district of bangladesh, have been neither adequately consulted not fully informed regarding this significant .
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A declaration adopted at the march said: "Since Phulbari coal project is an arrangement to take away coal resources from the people to hand over to a foreign company, and since OPM, a profitable means for coal extraction for the company, would destroy the region and would create a disaster for the people's lives and livelihood, we are hereby ...
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In a meandering account that often drifts off to puzzling side issues, Ms. Chowdhury principally focuses on crowds that in 2006 opposed a proposed open-pit coal mine in Phulbari, a community in northwest Bangladesh some six miles from the Indian border.
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The Phulbari open-pit coal project would include a mine and a 500 MW coal plant. The project was said to have a coal resource of 572 million metric tons and a proposed annual capacity to produce 15 metric tons per year. The coal would have provided support up to 4,000 MW of power generating capacity. Project area: 4,900
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Bangladesh, British and international civil society organizations are now calling on these financial institutions to follow suit and pull the plug on the Phulbari coal project. For further information contact: Zakir Kibria, Tel: +8801714116020 (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Heffa Schücking, Tel: +49-160-96761436 (Urgewald, Germany)
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Phulbari Coal Field has large share (17.33%) in this coal reserve. In present energy scenario extraction of coal from these field is must. But there are technological, economical, socio-economical ...
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This article examines how the civil intellectuals of Bangladesh oppose the state-sponsored political imposition that consistently approached to establish a coal-fired power plant, thus, risking the Sundarbans—one of the world's largest mangrove forests. By incorporating five points of significance, this article argues that civil intellectuals, as the only acceptable spokespersons ...
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The Phulbari coal project is a proposed open pit coal mine in northwest Bangladesh and includes the construction of at least one 500-MW power plant. ... WikiLeaks reveals U.S. diplomats pushed Bangladesh to re-open mine opposed by thousands; cables confirm long-standing concerns of human rights groups. 2010-12-22 | Phulbari, Bangladesh ...
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The proposed Phulbari open pit coal mine in Bangladesh would divert a river, suck an aquifer dry for 30 years and evict thousands of people from their homes. Vast machines would dig a series of holes 300 metres deep over a total area of 59 square kilometres. The coal would be largely exported via a railway and port in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.
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Re-conceptualizing the resistances against the Phulbari Coal Mine Project in Bangladesh with the mediation of archaeological practice. Swadhin Sen. The use of 'is' in the title is deliberate, denoting that the resistance against the Open Pit Coal Mining project of Asia Energy Corp. (AEC) is not over. The mainstream media and a large number ...
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The coal company plan to start mining in Phulbari and build a 6000 MW power plant. " If the mine is built, it would lead to the forced-displacement of up to 230, 000 people over the 36 year life cycle of the project.
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GCM in the past used to say it had "identified a high-quality coal resource of 572 million tonnes at the Phulbari Coal and Power Project in Bangladesh". For all latest news, follow The Daily Star ...
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Phulbari Coal Project (Sinohydro) is a proposed 4,000-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station and 16 million tonnes per annum coal mine in Rangpur division, Bangladesh. Also proposed for the location is the 2,000 MW Phulbari Coal Project (China Gezhouba).. The Phulbari Coal Project (Asia Energy) is an old 1,000 MW proposal for the location, by ...
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Polo Resources is a natural resources investment company based in South Africa. The company has a 29.9% interest in Caledon Resources plc, a coal mining operator in the Bowen Basin of Queensland, Australia, and a 29.82% interest in GCM Resources plc, which is seeking approval for the highly controversial Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh. [1]
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We demand the Bangladesh government implement the Phulbari Verdict fully, immediately, take legal action against GCM, and ban coal-power. We call on the Bangladeshi government to urgently: 1. Ban coal mining and fully implement the Phulbari Verdict. 2. Take legal action against GCM Resources, urgently. 3.
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opposition to the Phulbari coal mine project, Dinajpur District, Bangaldesh. PHL 121207.ESCR: Mining activity on Sibuyan Island, Romblon Province, 15 ... violence is not only directed against those who seek to oppose certain economic projects or influence their form. It is also frequently employed as a means to protect economic interests
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Over the weekend, Bangladeshi artists performed plays, sang songs, and recited poetry all in a bid to protect the Sundarbans—the world's biggest mangrove forest—from the threat of a massive coal plant. Construction is already under way on the hugely controversial Rampal coal plant, a 1,320 megawatt plant set Read More.
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Their story is one of a vibrant grassroots movement that in Bangladesh has supported massive protests against the Phulbari Coal Project involving tens of thousands of people fighting to protect their homes, land, livelihoods and communities from complete wanton destruction.
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PSG were founded in 2011 by activists from Phulbari and eye-witnesses to the killings of three children in 2006. They act as gatekeepers to international and national/local activists in building resistance against the coal-project. We work in solidarity with the people in Phulbari in their struggle to stop the devastating project. **
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Bangladesh coal divides region. As Bangladesh businesses struggle to cope with acute electricity shortages, plans to ensure energy security for the future have been greeted with fear and riots by the inhabitants of Phulbari in the north west Dinajpur district. London-based Asia Energy is planning to operate an open cast coal mine which will ...
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