Magurchara Blowout in Bangladesh: Environmental and Human Rights Issues
Article from: OGEL 1 (2003), in Roundup of Articles
Summary
Bangladesh has been endowed with large potential reserves of natural gas that made it important to world energy markets. The country has already been identified to be the hub of energy in the South Asian region. Bangladesh adopted a number of policies since the beginning of 1990s to facilitate the expansion of the private sector and increase the inflow of foreign investments in the energy sector. Due to the growing interests of the Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in the energy sector of Bangladesh there had been ‘tremendous optimism over Bangladesh’s economic future.’ Bangladesh looked ...