Coal, power and violent protest in Bangladesh
This was because the company, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), is building a 1,300MW coalfired power station in the Sundarbans, a giant mangrove forest that covers southern Bangladesh and which is a Unesco World Heritage site. The Sundarbans cover 40,000 hectares of Bangladesh at the delta created by the Ganges, Meghna and Brahmaputra rivers.