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Stop Rampal Power Station project in Bangladesh and save wild life

Submitted on Saturday 30th July 2016

Rejected on Tuesday 2nd August 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Stop Rampal Power Station project in Bangladesh and save wild life

Petition Details

This project will cause a massive disaster on wild life of Sundarban(home of Royal Bengal tiger and many more)

Additional Information

The Rampal power station (Bengali: রামপাল বিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র) is a proposed 1320 megawatt coal-fired power station at Rampal Upazila of Bagerhat District in Khulna, Bangladesh. It is a joint partnership between India's state owned National Thermal Power Corporation and Bangladesh Power Development Board. The joint venture company is known as Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company (BIFPC).The proposed project, on an area of over 1834 acres of land, is situated 14 kilometres north of the world's largest mangrove forest Sundarbans which is a UNESCO world heritage site. It will be the country's largest power plant.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

The UK Government is not responsible for energy policy in Bangladesh. You may wish to start another petition asking the UK Government to call on the authorities in Bangladesh to abandon this project.

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