Speakers at a recent program in Moulvibazar urged the government to take steps to use barren land instead of using haor land for installing solar power plants in the district.
they made the call at a roundtable held in the conference room of Moulvibazar deputy commissioner office, protesting against the initiative of installing solar power plant projects at Kawadighi, Hail Haor and Athangiri Puber Haor in the district.
they demand protection of the haor environment. Haor Raksha Andolan, Moulvibazar, a platform of environmental activists, arranged the event.
the discussants at the program said that the recent incidents of purchasing and selling of agricultural land in Kawadighi, Hail Haor and Athangiri Puber Haor and the initiative to set up solar power projects there raised concerns among the local residents.
they said that the work of a 10-megawatt solar power plant had already been completed at Athangiri Puber Haor and the efforts to set up a 25MW solar power plant in the same haor was under way.