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Banshkhali power station (In December 2013, [[S . Alam), also known as Group]] of Bangladesh signed an agreement in Dhaka with China's SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction Corporation to build a 1320 MW coal plant in Chittagong. The ''Chittagong power station'Daily Star''reported, is "Officials said the new company would sign a proposed 1,224separate agreement with state-megawatt (MW) coal plant in Chittagongrun Power Development Board, Bangladesh. The project which will be built by [[SEPCOIII]] Electric Power Construction Corporationmandate the joint venture to complete the construction work in 45 months."<ref name=Star>[http://www.thedailystar.net/s-alam-group-teams-up-with-chinese-firm-for-coal-power-plant-3212 "S Alam Group teams up with Chinese firm for coal power plant,"] The Daily Star, December 20, 2013</ref> It is not clear from the report whether the project will be a formal joint venture involving the Bangladesh Power Development Board, or whether the "joint venture" refers to the agreement signed between S Alam Group and SEPCOIII. On February 16, 2016, the government of Bangladesh approved the deal and set a price to purchase electricity from the group at a rate of BDT 6.61 per unit. The group started to acquire 600 acres of land for this plant. According to Bangladesh's The Daily Star: "Surprisingly, all these steps were taken without any Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and public consultation. There was no environmental clearance." The project was reported to be 2 x 612 MW.<ref name=am>Anu Muhammad, [http://www.thedailystar.net/op-ed/politics/scrap-projects-destruction-1207177 "Scrap projects of destruction,"] The Daily Star, April 11, 2016</ref>
==[[Bangladesh and coal|Bangladesh]]==
===[[Banshkhali power station (S Alam)]]===
Two Chinese firms -- SEPCOIII Electric Power and HTG -- are financing US$1.75 billion of the the plants' estimated US$2.4 billion cost.<Ref name=pen>[http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/asia/377197/four-killed-at-anti-china-power-plant-protest-in-bangladesh "Four killed an anti-China power plant protest in Bangladesh,"] The Peninsula, April 5, 2016</ref>
