National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas calls for new law banning gas export

Dhaka, BANGLADESH (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) – The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Port Saturday renewed its demand for enacting a law banning the export of the country’s energy resources.

“A law has to be enacted scraping the model PSC 2008 to ban gas export,” Prof Anu Mohammad told the national convention of the Committee at the city’s Engineers Institution.

Thousands of leaders and activists of the National Committee from different parts of the country joined the convention held with its convener Engineer Sheikh Muhammad Shahidullah in the chair.

They also stood in solemn silence for one minute and placed wreaths commemorating those killed during the Phulbari Movement in 2006.

The meeting was told that the government is trying to go on looting spree in the name of exploring gas in the bay and destroy the ecological system with open-pit coal mining.

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