Phulbari’s fertile farmlands are Bangladesh’s rice bowl. (Photo courtesy of JACSES)
British company GCM Resources was dealt a serious blow today as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreed to consider complaints regarding severe human rights violations associated with the company’s planned coal mine in Bangladesh.
GCM wants to open a massive open-pit coal mine in Phulbari in the north-west of Bangladesh, displacing up to 220,000 people and threatening the Sundarbans, one of the world’s largest remaining mangrove forests and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
See http://www.wdm.org.uk/news/uk-government-accepts-complaint-over-gcm-resources’-bangladesh-coal-mine.