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Global Coal Management (GCM), a UK company, is planning an open-cast mining project near Phulbari in north-west Bangladesh.
More than 40,000 people face resettlement, and thousands more are at risk from a reduced or contaminated water supply. The loss of land also threatens to decrease food security in the area.
This mine is opposed by local people as it will have devastating impacts that would last for generations to come. One protest ended in the death of three people.
Zakir Kibria, an activist from Bangadesh, has asked the World Development Movement to help the Bangladeshi people oppose this mine.
Zakir Kibria, Bangladesh activist
The poorest people of Bangladesh will suffer at the hands of a start up UK corporation, who want to mine our land and destroy our environment for profit. Phulbari communities gave a verdict written in blood that they do not want the mine. Please campaign with the people of Phulbari to stop it
Zakir has asked us to challenge GCM, and its shareholders (many of whom are British), and demand that they pull out of this disastrous coal mine project before it destroys any more lives.
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