Staff Reporter
Experts at a seminar in the city said there is no scope for densely populated country like Bangladesh to examine or experiment with coal extraction.
The 100 to 200 metres of soft sand on the upper layer of all coal deposit could not protect the open pit landslides. As a result, severe landslide could take place in and around the coalmines anytime, they said.
In the open pit system, environmental degradation will reach unbearable level causing serious hazards to human life, they added. [Read more]