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Bangladesh: PowerChina’s Teesta River plan criticised for lack of transparency, exclusion of public input, and environmental concerns
Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) and Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) have urged the government to ensure full transparency, public disclosure of information, and an independent assessment before implementing the proposed Teesta River Restoration "mega project" by Chinese company PowerChina.
"PowerChina first proposed the Teesta project in 2016 [...]" However, the project's feasibility study and pre-development project proposal (PDPP) were kept confidential [...].
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited PowerChina to respond, it did not.