Public sector Hathazari Peking Power Plant (HPPP) was fined of Tk.10 lakh for alleged pollution of the water of Halda River recently through dumping effluents of the plant. Department of Environment, Chittagong announced this penalty to HPPP for polluting and destroying the fish spawn in the only fish breeding centre of South Asia in current season .

Japan is likely to invest $ 400 million in private sector of Bangladesh to increase capacity in the energy sector. An agreement between the government and the Japanese private sector will be signed soon in this regard while another $ 300 million investment will be added to the initial investment in the second phase, said concerned officials on Tuesday.

Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in south-western Alaska’s copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The report, while not directly addressing it, is a potential blow to the massive Pebble copper and gold mine operation proposed by an international alliance of mining interests, and opposed by environmentalists and local native groups.

BANGLADESH has been identified as one of the countries to be worst affected by climate change for global atmospheric pollution caused by the rich and developed countries. From this recognition has also come promises from these countries that they would lend substantial resources to Bangladesh as compensation. The challenge for Bangladesh would be to liaison with the donor countries and organisations to obtain these resources free of cost and use the same in time to optimise benefits.

Boston-based Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia has observed that India must consult with co-riparian countries for any project on shared rivers.
The Alliance formed in 1993, came up with the remarks at a meeting held recently at MIT, Cambridge, USA to discuss India's recently revived River Linking Project, according to a message received here.

ICDDR,B is spreading its technical know-how to African countries to help them overcome tropical diseases.
Two doctors of the organization who are also experts in cholera management, returned home on Wednrsday after a two-week visit to the Horn of African countries-including Somalia and Kenya.
They trained more than 50 health professionals there including doctors and nurses, in cholera case management.

With growing cost of diesel based irrigation to crops in the field, the government has taken an innovative step to irrigate fields with solar run pumps. Such a pump has been set up at Mirjapur under Godagari upazila of the Rajshahi district on Wednesday for the first time in the region aimed at boosting farm production.
Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board set up the pump on experimental basis by spending around Taka 40 lakh with joint initiative of South Korea and Government of Bangladesh.

An innovative program in Bangladesh that caused unusually large reductions in child malnutrition will be made known at an event featuring experts from the poverty-fighting organization CARE and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said a CARE press release issued in Washington DC yesterday.

Public land grabbing is on the rise. So also the government vigilance often brings the culprits to book. The Directorate of Environment (DoE) on Thursday realized Taka 40 lakh from 'Hallmark Group', an industrial company, for their alleged involvement in land grabbing and illegal earth filing in suburban Savar after hours of the judgment. Director of DoE Mohammad Munir Chowdhury fined the hallmark group and asked to stop the illegal earth filling work. Following the directive, the group stopped their illegal work and the DoE realized the full fine money.

3rd International Conference on Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries will be held on 10-12 February 2013 at Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladeh.
The WasteSafe 2011, 2nd International Conference on Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries was held in Khulna, Bangladesh, 13-15 February 2011. The conference was jointly organized by Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh; Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany; University of Padova, Italy, International Waste Working Group (IWWG) and ORBIT Association.