Tengratila Blowouts: Victims start 3-day fresh agitation (Bangladesh)

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Sun. August 13, 2006

People of villages in and around Tengratila gas filed began a 3-day fresh agitation yesterday to press their 6-point demand including payment of compensation for damage of property by blowouts during drilling by Canadian company Niko ...

Speakers at the rally said the environment and ecology of the area have been badly damaged by a the blowouts on January 7 and June 24 last year due to negligence by the drilling company ...

The Canadian company has been trying to evade payment of compensation money to affected villagers by shifting the blame on the government. No conspiracy or tricks of Niko will be able to deprive the affected people of their just demands, they said.

The 6-point demand includes immediate payment of Tk 84 crore in compensation for environmental loss, proper compensation to the 611 families affected by the blowouts, employment for locals in the gas field work, establishment of a gas-based 50 MW power plant near Tengratila, steps for supply of safe water to affected villages, establishment of a health complex in the area and inclusion of 28 affected families who were earlier dropped 'intentionally' from the compensation list ...

http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/08/13/d608130702103.htm


Tengratila gas field blows up again
By Staff Reporter
Fri, 24 Jun 2005, 13:18:00

A devastating fire engulfed the Tengratila gas field in Sunamganj again in the early hours of Friday, five months after the north-eastern gas field was severely ravaged by a blaze ...

Officials said fire continued to spread. engulfing most parts of the gas field complex despite heavy rains. They cautioned that fire might take a serious turn if it could reach complex's nearby reserve of 7,000 liters of diesel.

The fire engulfed the adjacent areas as gas was leaking out from a number of cracks that developed during the January explosion.

They also declared an area of one kilometer radius as danger zone asking the local people to move to safe places.. Police cordoned the danger area ...

http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/31/19478