ক্যাটাগরি Water Pollution
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SWATCH OF NO GROUND: Bangladesh’s mysterious submarine canyon
Formed over 125,000 years ago from the Ganges River systemHome to Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Bryde’s whalesAdventurous tourists want easy access to the site This feature was published in Dhaka Tribune on February 24, 2024. In 2021, the people were surprised as to whether there were whales in the Bay of Bengal as they discovered a…
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Sundarbans Oil Spill: Is Bangladesh capable of facing disasters?
Now Dolphins started dying after the Sundarbans oil spill. Fishes, birds, crabs are already dying. Next are the deer and tigers, and what not! However, it’s no big deal for this government and the administration of 2014 Bangladesh! Its minister says the oil spill will not harm the forest much! They are building two 1320MW coal-run power plants – despite knowing…
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High Court may act now for Rampal
The High Court on Tuesday will hear for the second day a public interest litigation four lawyers have filed against a massive coal-run power plant in Bangladesh coastal district Bagerhat and construction of an anchorage for unloading coal in the reserve forest area. The plant site has 1834 acres on the bank of a river…
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Callousness over Rampal power plant, and cruelty
They started work on awarding India a job of building and operating coal power plants back in early 2010 – soon after the prime minister signed a 55-point joint communique with Manmohan Singh including the one involving power sector cooperation. No protests were there about the agreements until early 2011 when the PDB held a…
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Is Bangladesh on the right path centring environment?
The government is moving ahead with its priority on the climate change issues. Though climate change is a slow process, we’ve already been experiencing the impacts. The efforts taken now for adaptation and mitigation would be better for the country in the future only if those are executed properly. Bangladesh in the last couple of…
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Tanneries in Dhaka: No more menace please!
Probir K Sarker & Abu Bakar Siddique Published in Dhaka Tribune on June 5; bottom has latest development When tanneries were initially allowed to operate in the Hazaribagh area, at the western part of the capital, close to Turag river, no planning had taken place. Now, the number of tanneries exceed 200, over the last six decades,…
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Nuclear power plants: Bangladesh and global
Bangladesh plans to produce 2000MW of electricity by 2023 and another 4000MW by 2030; the plan for setting up the country’s first-ever nuclear power plant was initiated in 1961; The estimated cost of the proposed plant at Rooppur in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna district is set $1.5-2bn; The first phase (1000MW) of the project will…
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শ্রমিকের অধিকারঃ আন্দোলন বনাম দালালী
শ্রমিকশ্রেনীর জন্য কি করেছে আনু মুহাম্মদ-টাইপ নেতারা? এরা তো বাল-ছাল, খালি পারে ভাষন দিতে। এই টাইপ একটা প্রশ্ন ছিল একজন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় শিক্ষার্থীর। আমার এই পরিচিত বালকটি যেটা মুখ ফস্কে বলতে পারেনি তা হলো, ‘একটা শ্রমিককে তো চাকরী দিতে পারলো না’… যার টাকা আছে, সে টাকা বানাতে সেটা খাটাবে, তার দরকার শ্রমিক আর সেই গরীব-অর্ধশিক্ষিত-চাষাদের ঠিকভাবে কাজে…
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Tree-felling needs to be controlled
Deforestation has become a grave concern these days for the Bangladesh environmentalists who are monitoring the trend and also the rate of change in climate and at the same time, its adverse impacts. Even though there are laws, the smugglers with the help of influential individuals and forest officials have been robbing the forests in…
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Who is to stop these polluters?
Highly polluting brickfields are still operating unabated across the country including on the outskirts of Dhaka posing serious health risks in this dry season, harming the nature and damaging arable land. Most of these conventional chimneys are baking bricks round the clock burning wood, tyres and low-quality coal. Replacing the chimneys with improved modern ones…
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New booster in Russia-Bangladesh relations?
The Russian experts claim that the third generation technology has the capacity to stay fine in earthquake, tsunami and wartime. MoU done for a pre-feasibility study over the 2000MW Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. Well, this project is underway in Pabna, revived a couple of years ago, initiated in 1967. The Russian govt will give $500…
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Objection! Punish the housing and real estate demons Ashiyan & Bashundhara!
Realtors have warned Rajuk not to interfere in its ongoing fair in Dhaka, means there could be some unauthorised plots/apartments sold in the fair like the previous days. I was very disappointed to read the story in Wednesday morning. Last year, the High Court declared 77 such schemes “illegal” and some of those are very…
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Bangladesh’s real estate and housing firms big polluters
Realtors real violators L-R: Filling low-lying wetlands and destroying aquatic life and ecology. Not following the directives related to the surroundings of a site including keeping open space. Photo: STAR (left), writer (right) Published in The Daily Star on November 10, 12 Even though the Department of Environment ‘DoE’ and Rajuk have been penalizing real…
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Top firms polluting much
[slideshow] Pollution in Savar area When the local businesses are growing fast, it’s alarming to witness that many renowned companies have been ignoring environmental rules. These incidents are recently being revealed thanks to the enforcement drives by the Department of Environment (DoE), led by a director, Mohammad Munir Chowdhury. This man must be applauded, though…
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Relocation of industries a must to make Dhaka City liveable
Published in: The Daily Star August 23, 2012 The number of industries in Dhaka is huge, and it is ever-increasing while causing serious pollution to water, air and land of the densely-populated capital. Although there are quite a few designated industrial areas in Dhaka, many industries have been set up in different other areas too, cashing…
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Let’s save the environment, Earth
Left: Denudation of forests goes on unabated. Right: River water remains polluted to the extreme. The Daily Star/Environment August 4, 2012 Amid growing industrialisation and pressure of increasing population, and consequent massive pollution due to gross violation of environmental rules, the government has cut this year the budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Environment and…
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Business, protection of environment equally important
Ship-breaking: Still considered a hazardous polluter The Daily Star June 30, 2012 It was audacious, but at the same time a logical sequel of irregularities by government officials, to see major business leaders of the steel mills, re-rolling mills, plastic factories and brickfields demanding that they be relieved from being penalized for polluting the environment.…
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Rio+20 roundup, and Bangladesh
Is ‘green economy’ the answer? The Daily Star June 17, 2012 The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) must take decisive action on population and consumption regardless of political taboos or it will struggle to tackle the alarming decline of the global environment. The warning came from the world’s leading scientific academies on Thursday. “The…
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Buriganga must live amid industrial development and urbanisation
Save the lifeline from going deadly and dying L-R: The pitch black water tells the tale of the river’s extreme pollution. Indiscriminate dumping of solid waste not only pollutes the river but desperately shrinks its flow. Probir Kumar Sarker The Daily Star June 9, 2012 Millions of people living and working on the Buriganga and…
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Save Savar from further environmental degradation
L-R: Brickfields in Ashulia burn firewood and emit carbon in the air. Discharge from industrial establishment at Bank Town polluting adjacent waterbody. Click for more photos The daily Star May 26, 2012 Environment Probir Kumar Sarker Over the recent years, Savar is experiencing immense pressure of new industrial, commercial and residential establishments. But most of…
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Guest birds avert JU sanctuary?
The lakes a year ago and at present. Photos: Monwar Hossain Tuhin/JU teacher & Palash Khan/The Daily Star Published on May 12, 2012 Environment The Daily Star The number of guest birds coming every year to Jahangirnagar University (JU) lakes since the eighties has been falling for the last few years in such a…
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Shipbreaking saves iron, steel imports, say industrialists
bdnews24.com Sep 3, 2009 Bangladesh’s shipbreaking industry, operating along the Chittagong coastline, and under fire for environmentally unsound practices including destruction of forests and coastal pollution, remains the only local source of raw materials for the country’s iron and metal industry, industrialists said Thursday. The breaking yards supplied over 1.5 million metric tonnes of scrap…
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