Rampal Power Plant Research Paper

Rampal Power Plant: Myths debunked

The power plant in Rampal in Khulna near Sundarbans is a major development for the country but for the protestors, it’s a threat to the Sundarbans environment and also for the people who live there. The commentators of Rampal are environmentalists, scientists, and experts. Firstly, an important fact pushed by advocates that Rampal is 14 KM far from Sundarbans which contravenes the preconditions saying projects must be outside a 25 KM radius from the outer periphery of an ecologically sensitive area. Secondly, the usage of ‘’Ultra super critical technology (USCT)’’ remains unclear. According to the EIA report Rampal will use ‘’Super Critical Technology (SCT)’’. Even if Rampal plant used USCT it wouldn’t be
As we can see that Tilai River is polluted and has black colored water due to contamination of power plant waste. Comparing to a small power plant of 250 Mw it has very low impact on environment but Rampal has the capacity of over 1300 MW which needs a very big coal power. Thus it makes a negative impact on the environment near Sundarbans. As we can imagine the threat that Rampal poses to Sundarbans there’s a lot of debate going on. But we can’t depend on misleading information’s. Therefore if Rampal power plant is safe and has no negative impact on mangrove forest then government should express the right information with prove so that we can assure the safety of Sundarbans and its environment. Rampal power plant might result at least 6 thousand. Deaths and low birth weights of 24 thousand babies during its 39 year life, a Greenpeace study said. It’s told that it will burn 4.9 million tons of coal every year and will be among the largest sources of air pollution in the country. The affected areas, due to wind patterns, would cover the entire eco systems, satkhira, Khulna and Dhaka districts in Bangladesh and ashoknagar, kalyanagar,
Exposure to these pollutants increases the risk of diseases such as stroke, lung cancer, heart and respiratory diseases in adults as well as respiratory symptoms in children. The plant would surely emit pollution but not as much as that could lead to damage claimed by greenspace. "Emission limits for Sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, dust and mercury, as specified in the tender documents, are five to 10 times higher than best regulatory practice and technical state-of-the-art emission levels," Greenpeace added The study said due to the high population density in the impact area and weak emission limits applied for the project, the estimated health impacts were 150 premature deaths and births of 600 low-weight babies per year. Greenpeace said the predicted number of premature deaths would drop to 50 a year if the much stricter new Indian standards were followed. In the state-of-the art emission scenario, the premature death