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Bangladesh sticks with coal power plant project despite major backlash
2016-02-17 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Bangladesh, regarded by many as the nation most vulnerable to the impacts of global climate change, is on track to construct two coal-fired power plants that critics say are dangerously close to the worlds largest single tract of mangrove forest called the Sundarbans. A major driver behind these new power power plants is to increase electricity resources for Bangladeshs 157 million people and achieve its goal of becoming a middle-income country by 2021. Currently, the country produces 8,000 megawatts...
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