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July 31, 2020. Bangladesh's minister of power, energy and mineral resources, Nasrul Hamid, surprised energy watchers recently when he said the country is planning to "review" all but three of 29 planned coal plants. "We are keeping the three coal-fired power plants that are under construction. At present, we are aiming for [40 to 41 ...
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Short Url. Police in Bangladesh are investigating the deaths of a British father and son while on holiday in the South Asian country, the BBC reported. Rofikul Islam, 51, and his son Mahiqul, 16 ...
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The maximum observed subsidence having a noticeable areal extent due to Northern Upper Panels (NUP) and Southern Lower Panels (SLP) at the Barapukuria longwall coal mine is 5.8 m and 4.2 m ...
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June 25, 2020 On May 25, a barge carrying 800-900 tonnes of fly ash from West Bengal to Bangladesh sank in the Hatania-Doania River at the edge of the Sundarbans. Fly ash is the toxic residue left after coal is burnt.
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Bangladesh. The arsenic poisoning in groundwater was first reported by the Department of Public Health Engineering from the district of Chapai Nawabganj in 1993 ... Mining-related (coal mining) arsenic contamination is being affected in 74 countries across the world. Petroleum-related arsenic has affected 17 countries in the world.
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According to the WHO, the levels of arsenic have contributed to thelargest mass poisoning in history, affecting an estimated30-35 million people in Bangladesh. Exposure to arsenic can cause cancer and severely damage many integral systems in the human body. Arsenic has been shown to be the cause of death for 1 out of every 5 people in Bangladesh.
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Dec 15, 2021Barapukuria coal power plant: the curse of fly ash and water scarcity In the Dinajpur province of northern Bangladesh, the Barapukuria coal power plant has casted devastation on local communities and ecosystems for decades. The Barapukuria coal power plant looms over East Dudhipur village, spreading its toxic pollution in all directions.
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Mining has a great impact on soil heavy metal and metalloid load in some parts of Bangladesh. Coal, coal ash, and coal- fired boilers have great impacts on environmental Pb. Soil from the coal mine affected farmland at Barapukuria, Dinajpur, was shown to contain excess Pb at a level of 433 ± 5.66 mg/kg . Some other important sources for soil ...
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Bangladesh has planned for establishing several coal fired power plants, which threaten mercury poisoning, in collaboration with India, Japan, China and other private investors mostly on shores of Bay of Bengal - from Bagherhat in the east to Maheskhali in the south-west. ... Emission from the coal-fired power plant is on average 60 ppm on ...
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Objectives: Approximately 10 000 people die from suicide annually in Bangladesh, many from pesticide poisoning. We aimed to estimate financial costs to patients and health services of treating patients with self-poisoning. Methods: Data on direct costs to families, sources of funds for treatment and family wealth were collected prospectively over a one-month period in 2016 at the tertiary ...
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The Fight to Stop a Giant Coal Plant From Poisoning 'The Lungs of South Asia' Sultana Kamal leads a coalition of environmental groups fighting to keep the governments of Bangladesh and India from building a giant coalfired power plant next to a vast wild estuary called the Sundarbans. By Ben Arnoldy | July 17, 2018
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Coal-tar related poisoning has been reported in farm animals and pets. Coal tar contains 3 toxins: phenol, cresol, and pitch. Phenol is the most important toxin in coal-tar products. Cresols are used as disinfectants and are readily absorbed through the skin. Cats are especially sensitive to both phenol and cresol.
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Mar 10, 2015The government seeks to produce 20,000 megawatts of cheap coal-fired power by the year 2021. But 50% of power generated by Rampal is destined for India, while Bangladesh's citizens and ...
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A British dad and son found dead alongside unconscious family members in Bangladesh may have been murdered with poison, according to local police sources.. Police broke into a flat in the city of ...
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These wells are the key reason for the prevalence of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh, as "currently over 90 percent of Bangladeshi households obtain their drinking water from roughly 10 million tube wells" (Stahl, 2015). Many measures have been taken to alleviate the problem of widespread poisoning since its emergence.
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The effects of the faults and the dyke in the calculation were negligible. Future subsidence was predicted by considering 30 m extraction of the thick coal seam as 15.7-17.5 m in NUP and 8.7-10.5 m in SLP. The vulnerable areas demarcated considering the tilt angle and extensile strain might extend up to the coal mine office area and some villages.
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4.2.1 Classification of Endemic Arsenic Poisoning. Endemic arsenic poisoning is classified into two types including drinking water type and coal-burning type. The former is induced by the consumption of arsenic-contaminated drinking water, whereas the latter is due to the use of coal which is the arsenic-rich fuel for cooking, heating, or drying food.
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Jan 29, 2022Photo: JICA Bangladesh. Japan should stop funding the construction of a coal-fired power plant cluster in Bangladesh as the emissions it produces will accelerate global warming and put the low-lying country at greater risk of climate-change impacts, youth activists said on Friday. Japanese trading house Sumitomo, along with Toshiba and IHI ...
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It has been called the largest mass poisoning in history. After wells were drilled in Bangladesh and the rest of the Indian subcontinent in the 1970s, millions of people have been exposed to arsenic in drinking water. When leached into water from surrounding rocks and soil, the metal can—at high concentrations—cause skin lesions, cancer ...
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Aug 6, 2022A woman has become the latest family member of a British family of five on holiday in Bangladesh to die from a suspected poisoning. Samira Islam, 20, died on Friday after she was discovered ...
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Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant may have to buy coal at $150 per ton. The price of coal from the Barapukuria Coal Mine Company Ltd (BCMCL) may rise again, this time by 5%, as the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources has decided to renew a six-year contract with Chinese company XMC-CMC Consortium. The price of coal per ton, including ...
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Aug 23, 2021Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant may have to buy coal at $150 per ton. The price of coal from the Barapukuria Coal Mine Company Ltd (BCMCL) may rise again, this time by 5%, as the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources has decided to renew a six-year contract with Chinese company XMC-CMC Consortium. The price of coal per ton, including ...
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This coal plant, known as the Orion-Dhaka project, would burn coal just a few miles outside Dhaka, poisoning the air and water of 17 million people. While it remains unclear if the Orion-Dhaka project will move forward without U.S. financing, Ex-Im Bank's withdrawal represents an important victory for protecting people and the climate.
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Selection of investigation site. A typical endemic area of arsenic poisoning was selected with respect to the requirements that (1) coal burning is a popular case in people's normal daily life, (2) the resulting coal-burning arsenic leads to arsenicosis or liver damage, and (3) the availability of patients is not difficult for investigation purposes.
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Feb 2, 2021Moreover, data available on arsenic exposure in Bangladesh show that up to 75 million folks in the country are at potential risk of arsenic contamination (Safiuddin and Karim, 3). On the other hand, the total population in regions where some wells are known to be contaminated in Bangladesh is between 35 and 77 million (Smith et al. 1096).
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The pollution by naturally occurring arsenic of alluvial Ganges aquifers, which are used for the public water supply in Bangladesh and West Bengal, has been discussed by Nickson et al. 1. We agree ...
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Mercury poisoning (also known as mercurialism, hydrargyria, Hunter-Russell syndrome, or acrodynia when affecting children) is a disease caused by exposure to mercury or its toxic compounds. Mercury is a cumulative heavy metal poison which occurs in its elemental form, inorganically as salts, or organically as organ mercury compounds; the three ...
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Sep 27, 2020BEIJING, - Sixteen workers died and one is in a critical condition after being trapped underground in a coal mine in southwest China on Sunday, reported state broadcaster CCTV. A conveyor belt caught fire in the early hours of the morning, state news agency Xinhua cited the government as saying, which produced dangerous levels of carbon monoxide.
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The latest announcement of China that it will not build new coal-based power plants abroad will not have any immediate impact in Bangladesh as some of the country's biggest coal-fired power plants are already under construction, mostly with finance from China. Bangladesh is currently building coal power plants with a total capacity of 8,000 ...
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Kerosene Poisoning is the accidental or intentional intake of the compound. The intake may be through swallowing kerosene The condition is diagnosed based upon the clinical history, combination of signs and symptoms, and additional tests (that may include, in some cases, radiological studies and laboratory tests) Note:
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Acute arsenic poisoning is associated initially with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and severe diarrhoea. ... hydrogen liberated from coal fires and from gas for lighting combined with arsenic in the Paris green used in wallpaper to form arsine, a toxic gas. ... McArthur J, Burgess W, et al. Arsenic poisoning of Bangladesh groundwater ...
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Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh has now become an epidemic, effecting between 85-125 million people. So how did it get this bad? The main reason is because the organization that was responsible for digging wells around the country failed to pay attention to properly testing the groundwater, and for a long time didn't even test for arsenic!
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The level of arsenic allowed in drinking water has been set at 0.01 mg/l by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, the maximum permissible limit of arsenic in drinking water of Bangladesh ...
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Traditionally, handmade gold jewelry played a very important role in the cultural heritage of Bangladesh. Goldsmiths still are partially using ancient manufacturing process with coal fire, candle flame blowing, and nitric and sulfuric acid treatments. Such process leads to the contamination of workp .
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Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh has been called one of the largest mass poisonings in human history, expected to cause 10 percent of all future adult deaths in the impoverished nation of 130 million. ... Coal ash is composed of particles that measure between one and 10 microns in diameter, much smaller than a 100-micron-diameter human hair ...
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In 2020, Hawaii's Legislature passed a law banning the use of coal for energy production at the start of 2023. Hawaii has mandated a transition to 100% renewable energy by 2045, and was the first ...
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"Chemical effluents from the industries are poisoning the fish, and ships are constantly entering the Sundarbans." ... India, the 'big brother neighbour', is heavily involved in coal developments in Bangladesh, with Indian state-owned company NTPC being a main industry player for the Rampal project, and India's Export Import Bank ...
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Groundwater, which is collected through tubewells (TW) and for this reason known as tubewell water is the primary source of safe drinking water for 97% of rural inhabitants in Bangladesh (UNICEF 2021).However, the increased use of groundwater resources, natural processes like leaching and weathering, and anthropogenic inputs including mining and industrial activities have seriously endangered ...
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