The conflict dynamic in post accord Chittagong Hill Tracts is at cross-road. The intensity of violent ethnic conflict has likely to be reduced since the signing of peace accord in 1997. However, the people in CHT are dealing with new dynamics of conflict which has caused less violent but protracted social tensions and conflicts. Natural resource conflict is becoming paramount dynamic of social conflict in CHT region. The CHT region is the only extensive hill area in Bangladesh. The region consists of 3 districts which are located in southeastern part of Bangladesh. The population of this region has historically been dominated by indigenous communities in Bangladesh. However, over the years significant numbers of Bengali people arrived and settled in many parts of this region. Overall the society of CHT has now both Bengali and Indigenous people. Recently CHT is the center point of resource conflict dynamic. The region has huge potentials of natural gas and oil. Some of the parts of CHT have important geological structures favorable for natural gas and oil. One such reservoir of huge amount of natural gas is ‘Semutang Gas Field’ in Khagrachari District of CHT region. Semutang is the only gas field so far located in CHT. I was discovered in 1960 by thenational oil company (Oil and Gas Development Corporation of the then Pakistan). Finally in 2008, the government took up the project to extract 6.570 million cubic feet gas per year from Semutang gas field. During the planning process, it was undertaken that the gas will be added to the national grid to provide supports to industrial sectors in port city Chittagong.
The local people in Khagrachari district reacted against the gas distribution policy in CHT. They demanded that gas shou...
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...low a comprehensive investigation in order to identify and map key references i.e. Constitution of Bangladesh, National Energy Policy, National Development Plan, socio-economic profile of the people in Khagrachari District in CHT. On the other hand Focus Group Discussion, Individual Observation and one-to-one interview will be conducted to prepare cases studies. The study will be both descriptive and explanatory in nature. Descriptive method will be used to identify what, when and where type questions which will try to find out the genesis and development of socioeconomic and political encapsulation of indigenous people in Bangladesh and its impacts on the planning and implementation of development plan in Bangladesh. The exploratory method will find out how and why indigenous people resist such policy and why can’t the conflict mediated in a win-win situation.
In the video “Fracking Hell: The Untold Story” by Link TV explains how natural gas has been a huge problem not only for the earth in general but for everyone and everything living in it. The video explains how North East of Pennsylvania is having difficulties to conserve a healthy environment and people. North East of Pennsylvania is the main sources to extract gas and send it throughout the United States for gasoline and so on. However, this action is wonderful for the cost of gas, but has a huge impact on the environment and the people living in Pennsylvania. A lot of people in this state are worried having health issues because everything is not usable is being thrown out to the rivers where they get their fresh water.
In conclusion, Oil impacted social change over time, which helped us grow as a society. If you took my proposal into consideration I would really appreciate it. My proposal is going to have all of the factors of Oil and how oil has change our state. After reading the documents that you have given me I was able to answer question “What story should be told”. As H.L hunt always said “money is just as way of keeping score”. - H.L
The documentary ‘Gasland” is a telling tale of the terrible consequences of natural gas mining in the US. The filmmaker, Josh Fox, travels around the country visiting different homes that are in very close proximity of natural gas drilling sites after receiving a $100,000 offer from a natural gas company to use his land as a drilling site . The film focuses on how the drilling sites not only leave ugly scars on the land, but also the horrendous health problems people get from drinking the contaminated groundwater.
Moreover, generalizing the treatment of indigenous people in Latin America the continuation of bad treatment and the type of lifestyle indigenous people live is still evident in different regions in the Latin America. However, the fact that the indigenous people are still urbanized or depend on their livelihood and livestock to survive still exist. Also, the extraction of resources by the government and government authorized officials still threatens the land right of the indigenous people. Moreover, the government and other NGO’s still lack in the implementation of the indigenous rights. Which also leads to the indigenous people to have minimum participation in political...
Americans also became concerned about the gas supply and the possibility of being unable to obtain gas. It was reported that drivers in America were lined up out in the streets for fear of not being able to get gas for their automobiles.
Natural gas extraction and consumption has risen over the past thirty years. Also known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking, a tremendous amount of uproar is being made in the environmental and political communities. Natural gas use is a great source of energy worldwide, only in America have we had a gold rush affect when it comes to extraction. Natural gas provides less dependence on foreign oil, less need for coal plants, and a more affordable energy source worldwide. There are many advantages to using natural gas but the way in which it is being extracted has caused many people to become sick. The detrimental environmental impacts caused by hydraulic fracturing continue to rise. Not to mention the political pull on big corporations and water quality standards. Currently in the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania and the Barnett shale in Texas, the air and water quality have diminished over the past years since drilling sites ran rampant. Natural gas is natural in terms of how it came to be, but not natural in how they extract it and the problems it is causing everyone involved. To make aware the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, environmental impacts, water quality and air emissions, must be considered.
Throughout this situation of the gas blowouts that happened, all these stakeholders faced same problems, but affected in different ways. The residents of the community were the individuals who were affected the most due to lack of water that was discontinued after the blowout, but not only that due to their living condition it has also affected them in different ways. Mr. Sampson who faced a high volume of concerns from the Bangladesh residents and the
Pollution is a major problem for all of us. People need to recognize this situation so we can start making a difference to this problem. In order to start making a difference, the federal government should increase gasoline tax by one dollar a gallon. Fifty percent of this dollar will go towards public transportation, since passenger cars and trucks are a major contribution towards air pollution, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, E.P.A (10/4, http://www.epa.gov/autoemissions/emsns.html). Due to the expected increase after this is put forth, the remaining fifty percent of the dollar will go towards safety on these transits. When public transportation increases, air pollution will decrease, which will lessen the harmful health risks towards the environment.
Methane concentration is seventeen times higher in drinking water near facturing sites than normal wells. There are cases where the methane levels are too high in drinking water that people can set their tap water on fire. Contaminated well water is then used for drinking waters nearby cities and towns. “There have been over 1,000 documented cases of water contamination next to areas of gas drilling. Also cases of sensory, respiratory and neurological damage due to ingested contaminated water.” It is said that only a small amount of the fracturing fluid is recovered. Leaving the left behind chemicals evaporate and expose harmful chemicals into the atmosphere, creating contaminated air and climate changes due to the acid rain and ground level ozone.
Economic self-determination is possible with the available resources and Sami Parliament in three countries have formulated its own economic policy to develop the Sami society. The state responsibility is to provide means for financing autonomy for Sami people to ensure that the Sami will take equal benefits from those industrial activities in the Sami territories. Sami people has given employment rights in mining, gas and oil and fishing industry in the areas where Sami are living in the majority. The State must also provide extra financial resources to Sami representative and organizations.
At some point in everyone’s lives, we are affected by the rising gas prices in today’s economy. Natural gas is not a renewable resource, since there is a fixed amount of it trapped in the Earth. However, many people carry the misconception that there is a very limited amount of natural gas, and that we may use all of it up. This isn’t true. The gas shortages of the 1970's were prompted by the government’s lack of faith in the industry’s ability to discover and develop new reserves, not by lack of gas supply. The unfortunate impression left by the shortages of gas in the 1970's caused the people to believe that there was a small amount of gas left. On the contrary, the gas resource base is vast, and probably even larger than currently estimated. People are often confused by the difference in "proved reserves", those that could be economically produced with the current technology, and the total natural gas resource base.
The drastically increasing prices of fossil fuels and gasoline were making it harder for a middle income people to afford conventional vehicles in the near future. The gasoline is a natural resource which is reducing the supply of our reserves every second. In order to keep the fuel prices in control...
While some people blame ethnic favoritism for causing such a problem, some others believe the change in fuel prices has nothing to do with ethnicity. They believe that monopoly is the main cause of the problem because a few key players currently control a majority of the market in Afghanistan. Even though people consider monopoly and ethnicity as the two main factors, a lack of pr...
Although many efforts have been made to improve the standard of living in Bangladesh, the country still has many problems. The history of corruption and military intervention that has disrupted the development of the country can be seen everywhere. Even though enrollment in school has shown large improvement, drop out rates and the quality of that education are still dismal. The country has a very large population and with very low cost of labor, it should be growing at a rate similar to China, not slower than India. Bangladesh will encounter many new issues going forward as it transitions from a rural, to a more urban population. Infrastructure development will play a major role and is one of the largest problems facing Bangladesh today. In a country stricken with frequent cyclones, having strong infrastructure can make or break economic development.
“You are in a street where lights are reduced to pinpricks by a thick cloud of gas” (Sinha, P.273). This quote goes ahead to illustrate the way concentration of gas leak would be visible in the atmosphere. Carbon levels resulted from the process in the industry that leads to the release of this gas as a waste product. The United Carbide is a perfect example of such companies that Sinha integrated to represent this phenomenon. As the levels continue rising, there is an increase in global warming in the world. Subsequently, the plants get affected as well as some diseases affecting the eyes and skin begin to emerge. This can be translated by the strains that the people were going through in Bophal. When they sought to get the help, they were dismissed, and the company continued to