Abdullah Juberee
A parliamentary Panel decided on Wednesday, coal Barapukuria to the 22 'reality' observing area deposit visits
It stood by its earlier proposal for open-pit mining for "increased extraction against the demand."
The Parliamentary Committee on the Ministry of energy and mineral resources had made the decision at its 29th meeting on the Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban before today's meeting of the House.
"We have already proposed was to extract coal in mining for further extraction of coal to the call to the Ministry." The Committee has decided to see mine in the Barapukuria area the real situation, "the Committee Chairman Subid Ali Bhuiyan, said.
The Committee visit several coal mines in China, to get regional and international mine first-hand experience of the used in a month after the visit of Barapukuria, Subid said.
The Committee, as soon as it visited several coal mines in Germany in 2010, but it was moved for fear of public unrest, sources in the Committee and the Division of energy it should visit Barapukuria.
Different permission groups, environmentalists, energy experts, and the National Committee for the protection of oil, gas, makes natural resources, and had ports for for a long time against open pit, out of fear that it would displace hundreds of thousands of people from their homes destroy fertile farmland and the u-Bahn water table and in many other ways to environmental damage.
The immediate past BNP-led Government favours open pit method but movement in the face of the uprising of the indigenous in the three fires of border guards were killed, then it known as the Bangladesh rifles, suspended on 26 August 2006.
The people were against plans to extract coal from Phulbari with open-pit mining method by the Asia energy, the later its name in global coal management or the GCM change demonstrates.
Then had opposition leader in Parliament, Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister is now their support for the people's movement at a rally in Phulbari extends the Government in 2006 after the BNP led an agreement with the movement organizers, the National Committee for the protection of oil, gas, minerals, makes and ports.
She had asked the BNP-led Government on all conditions of the transaction.
The most important conditions of the transaction have been suspension Asia energy mine coal project at Phulbari, ban on open-pit mining in the country, so that none extracts foreign company for coal extraction and export of coal.
Wednesday the decision of the Standing Committee the Government followed from moving coal extraction to public opinions for open-pit mining which is located in the northern districts to create particularly the Phulbari coal mine, and develop a mining town in Dinajpur, near the coal deposits of Phulbari and Barapukuria.
As part of the movement, the Parliamentary Committee on the power, energy and minerals Ministry members, Secretary of State for Home Affairs visited Secretary of State for power and energy, and the Prime Minister's Adviser on energy, along with senior officials, the involvement of experts, some areas in Cologne and Hamburg in Germany in October 2010 to see the impact of the mine.
After people revolt found face down and open the Asia energy a number of professionals such as teachers, politicians and journalists after Germany to support for the Phulbari project to drums.
The journey of Subid Ali Bhuiyan and Secretary of State for energy Mohammad Enamul Huq, see her reports to the Prime Minister, recommend the environmentally controversial open pit method.
A U.S. diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks in December 2010, said that energy consultant of the Prime Minister had assured Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, the United States, support for the Phulbari-coal project of the Asia energy through the parliamentary process drums, after the U.S. Government, the project again under pressure diplomats.
After it, the State oil, gas and mineral resources Corporation Petrobangla are five deposits of approximately 2500 million tonnes of high-quality coal in the three northern districts. The coal Phulbari, Barapukuria and Dighipara are in Dinajpur.
It was estimated that there are 572 million tons of coal in the Phulbari deposit at a depth of 150 metres up to 240 meters and the Barapukuria deposit 390 tons of coal in the depth of 119 m up to 506 meters.
Since 2005 extract of Barapukuria coal mining company Ltd, a subsidiary of the Petrobangla from the Barapukuria deposit coal.
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