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IMPACTS OF COAL MINE AND THERMAL POWER PLANT IN AND AROUND BARAPUKURIA MINE AREA: A STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS
By: Md. Nazir Hossain, Shitangsu Kumar Paul
Key Words: Thermal power plant, Environmental impacts, Socio-economic impacts, Barapukuria, Bangladesh.
JLES-Vol-9-No-P-73-84-, December 2014
AbstractThe objective of the present study is to explore the environmental and socio-economic impacts of coal mine and coal based thermal power plant in and around Barapukuria. The samples of coal, water and soil were analysed using standard methods. Besides, data on socio- economic impacts was collected through a questionnaire survey which was conducted on 228 out of 526 households of four affected villages. The present study found that coal mine and thermal power plant have brought some environmental and socio-economic challenges to the Barapukuria and adjacent areas related to soil, water and air pollution, fly ash and solid waste, subsidence of land and livelihood insecurity of inhabitants. Heavy metal, organic carbon, exchangeable cations of coal water treated in the farmland soil suggest that coal mining deteriorated the surrounding water and soil quality. Besides, some physicochemical properties were investigated on coal fly ash of BTPP. The present study also found that the inhabitants of adjacent area of the coal mine and power plant are facing critical difficulties in their daily livelihood due to environmental pollution, requisition of homesteads and agricultural land, land subsidence, and wall cracking etc. are believed with adverse impacts of coal mine and thermal power plant. Transformation of occupation from farming to non-farming activities due to losses of agricultural land is another conspicuous change in local people’s livelihood. This study recommends that advance technologies and sustainable measures must have to consider to control and mitigate the adverse impacts of coal mine and thermal power plant to the adjacent area of Barapukuria.
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Md. Nazir Hossain, Shitangsu Kumar Paul
IMPACTS OF COAL MINE AND THERMAL POWER PLANT IN AND AROUND BARAPUKURIA MINE AREA: A STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS
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