Energy Bangla

Oil Firms Rolls Back Gas Prices

2012-05-16 10:30:08

Local oil companies have slashed prices of petroleum products starting May 13 to reflect the continued softening of prices in the international oil market. Unioil Petroleum Philippines rolled back prices of diesel by P1.65 a liter and of premium gasoline by P1.50 a liter. Eastern Petroleum, meanwhile, is cutting prices of diesel by P1.70 a liter, premium gasoline by P1.60 read more

Govt Approves 8 Climate Change Projects

2012-05-16 10:31:31

The government has approved eight projects, involving Tk 117.61 crore to tackle the adverse impacts of the changing climate. A meeting of the Climate Change Trust Board under the Environment and Forests Ministry approved the projects. Environment and Forests Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud chaired the meeting held at his ministry on May 15. Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, read more

Curious Case Sagar : Runi Murder Case Part 2

2012-05-16 20:35:38

Engr. Khondkar Abdus Saleque It is almost 100 days since two popular media personalities Golam Mostafa Sarwar (Sagar) News Editor of Machranga Television and his wife Meherunessa Runi were brutally murdered in their bed room in the heart of Dhaka City. The only survivor their 6 years old son Megh lost the most precious possession of his life. Parents of Sagar and Runi lost th read more

Solar Power Plant in Sunderbans sets up model Precedent

2012-05-14 19:52:59

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), in collaboration with the Centre for Appropriate Technology Incorporated (CAT) and Projects Australia is setting up a solar power station in the Rajat Jubilee village in Sunderban area of West Bengal. Talking to media persons, WWF official Anurag Danda, said they took up this task to address the power woes of the villagers. "Sustain read more

Regional Conference on Energy Cooperation held in Dhaka

2012-05-12 21:02:42

A two-day conference on regional energy cooperation was held in Dhaka with a call for strengthening collaboration among the South and South East Asian nations to address their energy crisis through utilising the potentials. Speaking at the inaugural session on May 9 as the chief guest, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader urged the energy experts in the region to find out a read more

Tullow Seeks Buyers to Divest all Asian Assets

2012-05-12 21:20:27

The UK's Tullow Oil is planning to divest all its Asian assets and focus on its core African and Atlantic Margin operations, a company source told Platts recently. Platts is a provider of energy and metals information and a source of benchmark price assessments in the physical energy markets. Tullow has begun seeking out buyers for its Asian assets, which are located in B read more

PDB owes Tk 3686 cr to SCBs

2012-05-11 18:21:24

The debt ridden Power DevelopmentBoard (PDB) has stopped purchasing electricity from the quick rental powerplants due to financial crisis resulting in further aggravation of power crisisin the country. As of March this year, PDB'soutstanding loan reached Tk 3686.05 crore payable to four state-owned commercialbanks (SCBs)-- Sonali, Janata, Agrani and Rupali, according to B read more

JS Body for Realizing Outstanding Power Bills

2012-05-10 17:07:07

The parliamentary standing committee on public accounts in a meeting May 9 discussed the audit objections raised by the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Dhaka Electricity Supply Authority and Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) for the financial year 2000-2001 and 2002-2003. The committee recommended the authorities concerned to inform it about thr read more

3 Furnace Oil-based pvt Power Plants Get Cabinet nod

2012-05-09 18:01:31

The cabinet committee on purchase recently approved three furnace oil-based private power plants having a total generation capacity of 150 megawatt. Proposal for appointment of a consultant for another project under Indian $1 billion Line of Credit was also approved at the meeting held at the Secretariat with Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the chair. Of the Independent Po read more

LDCs need Fund for Climate Adaptation

2012-05-09 18:09:36

Environment and Forests Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on May 8 called upon European leaders to give priority to adaptation in allocating green climate funds for least developed countries (LDCs) like Bangladesh affected by climate change. “Immediate allocation of funds is needed to implement the adaptation programme to the countries representing the Alliance of Small Island read more