http://bicusa.org/en/Project.59.aspx The latest news on the Phulbari Coal Project from the Bank Information Center 10 http://www.infodev.org/images/infodev.gif http://bicusa.org/en/Project.59.aspx The Phulbari Coal Project threatens numerous dangers and potential damages, ranging from the degradation of a major agricultural region in Bangladesh to pollution of the world's largest wetlands. The project's Summary Environmental Impact Assessment, and its full Environmental and Social Impact Assessment are replete with vague assurances, issuing many promises of future mitigation measures. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.10979.aspx Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:34:44 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.10979.aspx Over 100 civil society groups from 31 countries are calling on financial backers to withdraw their support from the the controversial Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh. The project will displace over 200,000 people, impoverish farming households and cause immense environmental impacts in one of the most fertile regions of Bangladesh. Despite these factors, according to information available on its website, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) remains interested in financing the project after having distanced itself from it earlier this year. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3881.aspx Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3881.aspx The Director of the Asian Development Bank’s Private Sector Operations Department, Robert Bestani, notified the Bank’s Board of Directors last week that it will take the Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh out of the Bank’s funding pipeline. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3720.aspx Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:29:16 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3720.aspx Phulbari resistance groups produce first documentary video. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3647.aspx Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:09:47 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3647.aspx Civil society groups from South Asia are planning to boycott the Asian Development Bank's consultation meeting on its safeguards policy update, to be held in New Delhi, India tomorrow. The groups, from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh state that the ADB's consultation draft, released in October 2007, greatly dilutes the Bank's earlier policies on Environment (2002), Involuntary Resettlement (1995) and Indigenous Peoples (1998), and is opposed to indigenous peoples’ rights and subverts environmental considerations. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3643.aspx Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:04:40 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3643.aspx Citing violations of five of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) own policies, non-governmental organizations from around the world have petitioned the ADB to discontinue its pre-appraisal of the Phulbari Coal Project and remove it from the funding pipeline. http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3642.aspx Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:04:37 GMT http://bicusa.org/en/Article.3642.aspx