Coal, Capital and Conflicts The Rampal power plant in Bangladesh, the protection of the Sundarbans and

VOLUME 49 Coal, Capital and Conflicts The Rampal power plant in Bangladesh, the protection of the Sundarbans and the role of German companies A study by Dieter Reinhardt Published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation COAL, CAPITAL AND CONFLICTS PUBLICATION SERIES ON ECOLOGY VOLUME 49 Coal, Capital and Conflicts The Rampal power plant in Bangladesh, the protection of the Sundarbans and the role of Germa. [...] 16 Coal, Capital and Conflicts The Rampal power plant in Bangladesh, the protection of the Sundarbans and the role of German companies Announcement of a renewed review of planned coal power plant projects In mid-2020, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Bangladesh announced that the government would once again review the planned construction of 26 coal power plants that had not yet rec. [...] One energy hub is located in the neighboring districts of Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar in the southeast of the country, the second is in the northeast in the district of Dinajpur, and the third is located on the southwestern coast in close proximity to the Sundarbans mangrove forests in the three districts of Patuakhali, Borguna and Khulna (Jahangir 2018, Sarwaruddin 2018, Khan/Byron 2015). [...] 20 Coal, Capital and Conflicts The Rampal power plant in Bangladesh, the protection of the Sundarbans and the role of German companies Oldendorff Carriers GmbH & Co KG, which is one of the largest container shipping companies in the world, and Lahmeyer International GmbH are involved in the Payra coal power plant and associated Payra deep-water port in the district of Patuakhali, which were largel. [...] 38 Coal, Capital and Conflicts The Rampal power plant in Bangladesh, the protection of the Sundarbans and the role of German companies 6 The Rampal coal power plant: Criticism and protests in Bangladesh Criticism of the Rampal coal power plant Rampal plays a special role in the controversy within Bangladesh about the construc- tion of coal power plants – a debate that has been going on for more th.