The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, ports and power enforced a six-hour road and rail blockade at Phulbari in Dinajpur, demanding implementation of its seven-point demands including compensation for Aman crops near …
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Villagers rally against GCM Resources and open pit mining in Bangladesh
Last updated: Apr 4, 2011
Mangrove Action Project says stop Phulbari coal mine
Last updated: Mar 24, 2011
London-listed GCM Resources’ Phulbari Coal Mine Project would establish one of the world’s largest open pit coal mines in northwest Bangladesh, forcibly displacing as many as 130,000 people, including more than 2,200 indigenous households. Mangrove …
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Cultural Survival Launches Campaign to Halt Coal Mine in Bangladesh
Last updated: Feb 9, 2011
February 9, 2011
Media Contacts:
Paula Palmer, Director, Global Response Program, Cultural Survival, 00 1 303 444-0306, paula@cs.org
Joanna Levitt, Executive Director, International Accountability Project, 00 1 415-659-0555, joanna@accountabilityproject.org
Rumana Hashem, International Correspondent of the …
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GCM continues to push Phulbari mine: take action now
Last updated: Feb 3, 2011
GCM claims negotiations with Bangladesh Government
GCM Resources, previously known as Asia Energy, has claimed that it is negotiating coal extraction from Phulbari with the government. “GCM is ready to move the Phulbari Project forward …
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Wikileaks on Bangladesh, GCM and government collaboration
Last updated: Jan 11, 2011
A WikiLeaked cable from US embassy, Dhaka shows that Moriarty urged Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, the prime minister’s energy adviser, to authorise coal mining in Phulbari, saying that ‘open-pit mining seemed the best way forward’ (Guardian, December …
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WikiLeaks cables: US pushed for reopening of Bangladesh coal mine
Last updated: Dec 22, 2010
US Ambassador urged country’s energy adviser to approve plans by London-based GCM Resources, despite mine being closed in 2006 after violent protests.
See http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-cables-us-bangladesh-coal-mine.…
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Coal protests around the world
Last updated: Dec 8, 2010
Demonstration outside GCM Resources AGM against Phulbari Mine in Bangladesh
A demonstration was held on 6 December outside the London AGM of GCM Resources against the open-cast coal mine project proposal in Phulbari, in the north …
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News on Phulbari
Last updated: Nov 19, 2010
In the Phulbari area of Northwest Bangladesh, communities have come together to raise their voices against the proposed Phulbari Coal Project, which threatens to turn this fertile agricultural region into an open-pit coal mine. If …
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Marching against GCM Resources
Last updated: Nov 4, 2010
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HUMAN CHAIN TO PROTEST OPEN-PIT MINING IN PHULBARI
LONDON, 30 October 2010 – A human chain forming event has been observed in Altab Ali Park in East London on the 29th October 2010 …
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Bangladeshi Citizens March against Coal
Last updated: Oct 29, 2010
It’s almost five years since civil society organisations, joined by local Indigenous and settler communities, tried to halt the opening of Bangladesh’s biggest-ever mine, the Phulbari coal project, managed by UK-listed GCM Resources. Last …
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Bangladesh: protests against GCM Resources subsidiary Asia Energy
Last updated: Aug 27, 2010
London-based GCM Resources is still hoping that subsidiary Asia Energy can open an opencast mine at Phulbari in Bangladesh. But there is still strong opposition.
Oil-gas body wants Phulbari deal implemented
The national committee to …
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Extract coal in Bangladesh regardless of damages: Selim
Last updated: Jun 26, 2010
An MP from Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, has spoken out strongly in favour of coal extraction regardless of any environmental damage it may cause.
The senior leader also criticised those protesting …
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