RE: Phulbari open pit mining promotion!25 Nov 2025 23:28
From Bangladesh Facebook, this is a discussion about Phulbari Coal, and open pit mining, (sorry if already posted) this and other articles are very much blaming the Indian Government to why Phulbari was never given the green light. If you look and translate many of the comments in the link, you can see that the attitude towards Phulbari has very much changed, and now most are almost shouting for Phulbari to be mined….
A couple of comments, just taken from the first half dozen posted, but obviously you can look at more yourselves …..
“This project needs to be implemented quickly.”
“Now let's take the initiative again.”
“Alhamdulillah, please act quickly.”
https://www.facebook.com/share/17gjdG3bYY/
Why there is no initiative to lifting from South Asia's largest $83 billion coal store in one black shade! What was the main reason for India's objection? The coal which could make Bangladesh is the best in the electricity sector!
The asset which will be close to 4 times the total foreign currency reserve in Bangladesh. Dinajpur's Phulbari, where there is a potential resource, large stock of coal. 1994 Australian company BHP found huge coal mine in Phulbari.
The total stock of 572 million tonnes of coal, for which it became the largest coal field in South Asia. Then researchers said, lifting coal from this mine every day would be possible to satisfy the country's fuel demand from thoughtless for 50 years.
Bangladesh could have become energy exporter in this region if Phulbari could be implemented in a state, it said Al Monitor in one of their reports. But even after 30 years, it was not possible, the only objection of India.
India its water level in North Bengal and West Bengal
He objects to openly lifting coal in a rumor that will go down. And experts are saying there is no possibility, this is just a political excuse to hold Bangladesh back.
Geologists in Bangladesh say the water level of Fulbari coal mining does not go to India's border in any way. This has no scientific base, plus it can be said it's an arrangement.
The power of 9 coal-based power plants in Bangladesh is 9820 MW. And the coal demand of electricity plants are met in imported coal for this electricity generation. Every year, the import of coal in Bangladesh is 10-15 million tonnes of coal.
And this coal is worth around $5 billion, and these power plants sometimes, due to the dollar crisis, the failure to import coal. Yet a huge coal mine is sleeping under the soil of the country, which if India was not obstructed in lifting, Bangladesh could have been an energy exporter.
Mahamudur Rahman, the fuel advisor to the then BNP government on 26 August 2006, announced to start coal lifting from Phulbari. Right after this, India shakes the leftists of our civilians. Then the coal lifting is closed, the agreement is cancelled.
Although it's been almost a decade since the movement, our coal resources are still covering us with clapping. They say I am ready to s
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