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Campaigners demand UK coal company withdraw support for destructive Bangladeshi mine

2008-12-16 | London, U.K.
By: International Accountability Project
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jen@accountabilityproject.org

2008-12-16 | London, U.K.
By: International Accountability Project
Contact:

jen@accountabilityproject.org

Bangladeshi activists, and campaigners from the London Mining Network and the World Development Movement are protesting outside UK coal company, Global Coal Management PLC's AGM today demanding an end to its destructive coal mining operation in Bangladesh. The meeting will be held at 10.00 a.m. at Sceptre Court, 40 Tower Hill, London EC3.

"Phulbari is a splendid example of a project that should not go ahead. The fact that it is being proposed by a London-based company and has been supported by the British Government's Department for International Development shows why we in London have to increase pressure on companies and government to act responsibly" said Richard Solly, Co-ordinator of the London Mining Network.

Murray Benham, Head of Campaigns at the World Development Movement said:


"Open cast mining will destroy the livelihoods of tens of thousands of  people.  We are here to demonstrate our opposition to this disgraceful project,  proposed by a British company, and supported by the British government. Such a scheme should have no place in 21st century energy production."

GCM Resources has been preparing the 6,000 hectare, open-cast coal mine in the northwest area of Bangladesh for over 3 years. Eighty percent of the land that would be taken for the project is agricultural land and would force the eviction, relocation and re-employment of at least 40,000 people and disrupt the water supply of a further 100,000 people.

“GCM does not have any lawful contract for mining coal in Phulbari,” said Professor Anu Muhammad, Member Secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources in Bangladesh. “Moreover, after the community’s unprecedented resistance against the Phulbari coal mine project, the government signed an agreement with the people to cancel all contracts with the company and to ban open-pit mining in the country. In Phulbari and in general throughout the country, people have issued a public verdict against the company; they have given their lives to resist the company because of the disastrous nature of this project.”

“The project’s Environmental and Social Impact Assessment is full of vague assurances,” said Roger Moody of Nostromo Research.

 “Land scarcity is a significant issue in this project,” said Jennifer Kalafut from the International Accountability Project. “The project would turn tens of thousands of farmers into landless wage laborers. GCM Resources has provided no meaningful analysis or plans on how to prevent the impoverishment of those who will be displaced.”

Notes to Editor

The GCM Resources plc AGM will be held at 10.00 a.m. on 16 December 2008 at the offices of Trowers & Hamlins LLP, Sceptre Court, 40 Tower Hill, London EC3N 4DX.

Nostromo Research and Bank Information Center,  Phulbari Coal: A Parlous Project, 12 November 2008, available at: www.londonminingnetwork.org.

International Accountability Project and Bank Information Center, Phulbari Coal Project: An Assessment of the Draft Resettlement Plan Prepared by GCM Resources, August 2008, available at: www.accountabilityproject.org/phulbari.

For more information, contact:

Kate Blagojevic, World Development Movement Press Officer, 020 7820 4900, 07711875345
Richard Solly, London Mining Network,  0792 9023214

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