Can't turn the clock back6 Jun 2023 22:07
I don't even want to think of what "should have been" had they gone along with the full plan at phulbari.
6000 mw, all produced on site from an open pit mine, that would have supplied all the fuel for about 40 years.. No imports, no debt, everything contained under one umbrella and financed by the final price of the power produced, and that power would not only have been guaranteed, it would have been the cheapest they could ever have hoped for, and the prices would have been fixed and not subject to any world fluctuations.
There would have been no need for Rampal, no need for Payra, and no need for Godda,... All of this output could have been covered from one, self sufficient plant, all in house, and all free of any fx drain.
... It was a win, win, win for Bangladesh and they have slung it all away, with a scattergun array of power plants that have cost fortunes to build and that they now cannot afford to run.
.. Interest charges, Capacity charges, and Import bills will bankrupt the country and still Hasina tries to blame everything and everybody, other than her governments policies.
. Too late now to build those 6000 mgw plants at phulbari, but the coal is still there and must be used if Bangladesh is ever to get out from their financial nightmare.
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. When will somebody in Bangladesh dare to say Phulbari.
Will Hasina finally do a u turn before the next election, admitting she has made a huge mistake, and risk losing power..... or will she try to bluff it out and hope she wins another term, and then do the u turn she knows she has to do.
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