‘No harmful deal with foreign cos on offshore drilling’

‘No harmful deal with foreign cos on offshore drilling’
Oil, gas protection committee holds protest programmes in districts, demands Dr Tamim’s removal
Star National Desk

National Oil, Gas Protection Committee forms a human chain in front of Dinajpur Press Club yesterday demanding cancellation of a proposal to lease offshore blocks to multinational companies for drilling. Photo: STAR

Leaders [...]

Prices of bulk power go up by 16pc

Prices of bulk power go up by 16pc
Tariff for consumers unchanged for now

-The daily Star

Average bulk power tariff has been increased by 16 percent to Tk 2.37 per kilowatt, to be effective from tomorrow, which is Tk 2.04 right now.
The latest power tariff adjustment is the first by Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) since its [...]

Coal Childs from Bangladesh to India!

ET Report

Sources said, trafficked Bangladeshi children are engaged inextracting coal from coalmines in Meghalaya and that coal with high sulpher is exported to Bangladesh. While quality coal is lying underground unused in Bangladesh.
 

Bangladeshi children and adolescents are rampantly used as child labour and in prostitution at different places in India. This horrifying picture has been [...]

ADB now prescribes downward adjustment of oil prices

R Akter

 
 

While inflation continues to remain as a major challenge for Bangladesh economy, political disruptions in the run-up to the general elections expected in December could also pose significant risks, the Manila-based Asian Development Bank cautioned in its Asian Development Outlook 2008. Bangladesh may consider downward adjustment of domestic fuel oil prices if global crude [...]

154 CNG-run autos detained, 425 cases filed

154 CNG-run autos detained, 425 cases filed

 

Sarwaruddin Ahmed, Chittagong
Traffic Department of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) started its drive afresh to oust the meter-less CNG-run auto-rickshaws from the city streets from Sunday last week as deadline for compliance of tariff-meter expired on the previous day.
Though the Traffic Department of the CMP took the same step [...]

BCSIR scientists produce petroleum from organic waste

ET Report
Scientists of the Bangladesh Council for Scientific and Industrial Research have produced petroleum from degradable organic waste that ushered in a new hope among the people of the energy-starved country.
A five-member team, headed by Dr Yunus Miah, produced the petroleum at the BCSIR laboratory on an experimental basis in April last at a nominal [...]

PDB expansion project in Ctg division shelved

-Sarwaruddin Ahmed, Chittagong
A Power Development Board (PDB) project worth Tk.117 crores for bringing new areas of different Upazilas of Chittagong region under electrification and improvement of the present system of power supply have been shelved for lack of manpower for about three months.
The project titled ‘Emergency Rehabilitation and Expansion of Urban area and Power Distribution [...]

Cairn Energy gets nod to hire compressors

R Akter
The state-run oil and gas corporation Petrobangla on has approved UK-based Cairn Energy’s proposal to hire two compressors spending $4.5 million to continue gas production at Sangu gas field for two years beyond 2009. The company earlier projected that gas supply from Sangu would come down to around 20 million cubic feet per day [...]

Conoco Phillips, Tullow selection now depends on CA’s consent

R Akter
The cabinet committee on purchase, headed by finance adviser Mirza Azizul Islam, on Tuesday decided that the power and energy ministry would take the decision on the selection of US ConocoPhillips for eight deep-sea blocks and Irish Tullow Oil for a shallow sea-block for hydrocarbon exploration and production.
The energy division placed the proposal before [...]

The Carbon Conspiracy

-From Probe Magazine

In the name of carbon trading, developed countries are offering developing countries paltry handouts to keep development in check while they go ahead in leaps and bounds
 
A PROBE report
 
Climate change is on us. Ardent environmentalists and hardened skeptics alike are ready to admit this. It is a reality that has caught global attention [...]