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'CG has no right to sign deal on oil, gas resources'

Staff Correspondent
The caretaker government (CG) has no right to sign any deal on oil and gas resources of the country keeping people in the dark during the state of emergency, said the leaders of National Committee to Protect Oil. Gas. Mineral Resources, Electricity and Port yesterday.
At a press conference at Mukti Bhaban auditorium in the city, they also threatened to sue the government if it takes any steps to violate the Phulbari Agreement that rejects open pit mining at Phulbari coal mine and demands expulsion of the oil company Asia Energy.
.Alleging that evil efforts are going on to handover the natural resources of the country to foreign companies, the National Committee leaders said it would
launch countrywide mass-contact programme on July 26 to protest such efforts.
"We will also go for protest rallies in the city on July 31 if the government does not clarify its position," said the National Committee Member-Secretary Anu Muhammad.
' In fresh moves, foreign companies, consultants and some bureaucrats are trying to establish their occupation on Bangladesh's mineral resources in the offshore. The government, which is busy in holding the national election in December and who has short time in hand, is also trying to sign export-oriented deals with the US and Irish companies," he added.
In a written statement, he said gas resources of the country is not under the control of the people and
the country is going through a number of crises in power sector due to various PSCs (production sharing contracts) signed during the 1990s.
"Bangladesh now incurs a loss of Tk 1500 crore annually for these PSCs, which also caused destruction of gas worth thousands of crores of taka, which have not been compensated." said Anu Muhammad, economics teacher of Jahangirnagar University.
The government is also trying to incorporate open pit mining method in the coal policy allowing scopes for the foreign companies to establish their occupation on Bangladesh's coal, he said.
On the other hand. Asia Energy is engaged in various evil efforts in the northern parts of the country and is trying to create their collaborators, Anu Muhammad
said, adding, it is trying to file false cases against those who protested Asia Energy's Phulbari project.
"Why the present government is cooperating with Asia Energy when an expert committee cancelled the Phulbari Project, people also rejected it and an elected government signed an agreement promising cancellation of the deal with the company?" he posed a question.
"The government should immediately stop all ill motives to handover oil and gas resources of the offshore, leaving the nautical area unprotected," the economist said.
India is also daring to explore oil and gas in the Bangladesh part of Bay of Bengal, as the-government did not demarcate Bangladesh's area, he said demanding a halt to Indian move in the Bay.