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Barapukuria Coal Mine Company Yet To Restart Coal Mine Production
Resumption of production at Barapukuria coal mine remains uncertain as the latest efforts of Forest and Environment State Minister Mostafizur Rahman Fizar failed to resolve the issues of compensation to landslide victims and retrenchment of Bangladeshi miners of Barapukuria Coal Mine Company Ltd (BCMCL).
Barapukuria Coal Mine Company To Export 200,000 tonnes Coal Mine Exploration Result
Authorities have shelved a proposal to export 200,000 tonnes of high quality and expensive coal by the Barapukuria Coal Mine Company Ltd (BCMCL) and asked it to go for local market sale first.
Sources say frustrated by a lack of interest in local buyers, who prefer cheaper but environmentally hazardous coal from India, BCMCL sought permission [...]
Coal Mining Exploration System of Friendliness Environment
Asia Energy proposed to extract about 10-15 million tons of coal from Phulbari coal field adopting open-pit mining from final depth of 250 to 300 meters by removing 4400 million tons of overburden (rock, sand, mud, soil) covering an area of about 5.2 sqkm throughout the life of the mine i.e. 36 to 38 years. [...]
State-owned power, coal cos at loggerheads over price fixation
The state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and the Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) are in dispute over fixation of coal prices and its extraction.
The BPDB is demanding adequate supply of coal from the Barapukuria coal mine to run the country’s lone coal-fired 250-mega watt (MW) Barapukuria Power Plant.
The BCMCL, on the other hand, [...]
Bangladesh holds huge intact coal energy
According to the National Energy Policy 2004, country’’s total coal reserve is 2527 million tons in four fields–492 million tons recoverable from the reserves.
As uncertainty clouds the mining of county’’s abundant wealth of coal, government has missed a deadline for doubling the current volume of power by generating an additional 4,000 megawatts of electricity under [...]
