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Rampal Power Station

Presented by : Lia Borsha Gomes ID-1337BBA02671

Rubayat Fatima ID-1337BBA02715

Contents Project Details Financing Agreement Government position Environment Issue Resolve Sources Q & A Part

Picture of Rampal Power Station

Rampal Power Station The Rampal Power

station is situated in Rampal Upazila of Bagerhat district in Khulna Bangladesh. It will be the biggest power station in our country.

Project Details Sponsor: Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company

Pvt. Ltd. (BIFPCL) Parent company: Bangladesh Power Development

Board, NTPC Location: Khulna, Bangladesh Gross Capacity: 1320 MW (2 x 660 MW) Type: Ultra-Supercritical Project in service: 2018

Financingo The capital which might be equivalent to US $1.5 billion, will

be taken as bank loans with help from the NTPC.

o India and Bangladesh will fund the remaining 30% equally (15% each)

Agreement In August 2010, this project was signed between Bangladesh

Power Development Board (BPDB) and India's state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)

On January 29, 2012, the Bangladesh Power Development Board signed an agreement with NTPC to build the plant

Agreed to implement the project by 2016. The BPDB and the NTPC agreed to implement the project

on a 50:50 equity basis. The NTPC will set up and operate the plant

Government position• The government of Bangladesh rejects the

allegations would adversely affect the world’s largest mangrove forest.

• Importing high quality coal, build a 275 meters high chimney, Use high art technology

Environment Issue• Construction of power plant at Rampal the ecosystem will be

largely affected due to traffic movements, oil and chemical spillage and dredging.

• The project will use deep tube wells and water of the Posur River for washing coal, which will push ground level water down and will completely destroy the ecosystem of the river (The EIA report prepared by Dr. Abdullah Harun )

• Transferring activities, shipping and barging activities at Akram point will generate noise create disturbance to the wildlife of the Sundarban.

• Different types of wastes like the residue of the coal, ballast water, bilge water, oil etc produced from the Ships will be discharged to the river system and these will pollute the environment.

• Ballast water, oil spillage and coal dropping might affect on Mangrove plants.

According to the (WHC)

• The Sundarban’s mangrove forest is the habitat of a wide range of flora;334 Flora species and 693 fauna species

• 315 species of waterfowl, raptors and nine species of kingfisher and the magnificent white bellied sea eagle. The area is habitat or the Royal Bengal tiger and other threatened species,such as the estuarine crocodile and the Indian python.

• If Rampal power Station came into reality these species will die or go away.

We will get light by killing and push away our pride Sudarban’s Natural beauty and precious animals

Resolve• We are not against the project but against building of the

power plant in Rampal. The project can be transferred anywhere else, far from the Sundarban to protect it . The experts and environmentalists are really worried about the Rampal. A great number of concerned people are protesting against this project.

• The government itself is violating environment law by constructing coal-based power plant at Rampal .

Sources The Daily Star October 02, 2013 Rampal power plant article by (Talukdar Rasel Mahmud)

Thethirdpole.net (UNESCO investigates environmental

impact of Sundarbans coal plant ) by Pinaki Roy, March 31, 2016

United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization website7 August 2016

(RampalPower PlantVs Sundarban) byDr Nargis Banu

Wikipedia

Q & A part