Probir Bidhan: A Journo's Diary

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Category: Noise Pollution

  • 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…

  • DoE defends approval of EIA for Sundarbans coal plant

    The Department of Environment (DoE) gave the EIA green signal after eight revisions and imposing a number of conditions to protect the World Heritage Site, declared by the Unesco, and river Pashur which is a sweet-water dolphin sanctuary. The final environmental clearance for the project would be given after implementation of the project “only if…

  • 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…

  • Impacts of brickfields neglected, still!

    We are so constrained a people, situationally and conditionally, that we tend to ignore many implied ills for a single apparent gain. Such an issue is the ever-expanding “brick-making industry”, given the fact that brick appears to be an essential item in this era of urbanisation and industrialisation. But, unfortunately, many consequential problems have arisen…

  • হায় ফুলবাড়ি! তোমার কপালে কি কেবল দু:খ লেখা?

    [slideshow]এই বিষয়ে লেখা ঠিক আগের ব্লগটিতে আশংকা করেছিলাম “এসব কর্মকান্ড প্রতিহত করতে চাইলে জনগনের উপর আবার খড়গহস্ত হবে বর্তমানে শেখ হাসিনার তত্বাবধানে থাকা পেটোয়া বাহিনী!” হ্যাঁ, তাই হয়েছে আজ। ফুলবাড়িতে স্থানীয়দের জনসভা বানচালে সরকার ১৪৪ ধারা দিয়েছে। আমি ধিক্কার জানাই। এশিয়া এনার্জিকে আবার উন্মুক্ত খনি খননকাজে সহযোগিতা করার সিদ্ধান্ত বাস্তবায়নের পূর্বে মাননীয় প্রধানমন্ত্রী আপনার উচিত…

  • 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…

  • ফুলবাড়িঃ শুধু প্রতিশ্রুতিভঙ্গ নয়, এটা লুটপাট

    উন্মুক্ত কয়লা খনি ও এশিয়া এনার্জিকে বাংলাদেশ থেকে তাড়ানোসহ ৬দফা দাবিতে আগস্ট মাসজুড়ে আন্দোলনের এক পর্যায়ে ২৬ তারিখে আইনশৃঙ্খলা বাহিনী গুলি চালায় আন্দোলনকারীদের উপর যাদের মধ্যে এলাকার ছেলে-মেয়ে-বুড়ো সবার পাশাপাশি সারা দেশ থেকে সমব্যাথীরাও ছিলেন। আমিন, সালেকিন ও তরিকুল প্রাণ হারালেন। তখনকার বিএনপি-জামায়াত জোট সরকার সমঝোতায় আসতে রাজী হলো ৩০ তারিখে। রাজশাহীর মেয়র মিজানুর রহমান…

  • 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…

  • Stop Hill Cutting Now, Save the Nature for Future

    Down with the hills! The Daily Star September 8, 2012 Hill cutting continues unabated despite ban  Though Bangladesh is prominently a plain land, its Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Rangamati, Khagrachhari, Bandarban and Sylhet have hilly areas with forests and rich biodiversity. These areas are full of natural resources fulfilling needs of the people and other living…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ফুটপাত উচ্ছেদঃ এ এক ঐতিহাসিক সিদ্ধান্ত, তবে সুখের ও আশংকার

    আজ সকালে ঢাকায় কি কি ঘটতে পারে তার একটা ধারনাসূলভ ফিরিস্তি দাঁড় করানোর চেষ্টা করিঃ * রাস্তার দুপাশে অনেক ভাঙাচোরা দোকানপাট দেখা যাবে; * ভ্যান-ঠ্যালাগাড়ি বা কাঁধে নিয়ে হকাররা মালামাল সরাবে; * রাজনৈতিক-সামাজিক ও দাতব্য সংগঠনগুলোসহ ফুটপাত দখল করা সবাই তাদের ঘরগুলো সরিয়ে নিবে; * রাস্তাঘাটে-ফুটপাতে রাগী মুডে প্রচুর পুলিশ মোতায়েন থাকবে; * রাস্তায় গাড়ির…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Shipbreaking saves iron, steel imports, say industrialists

    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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