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Norochcholai coal power plant work launch this month
Wednesday, 3 May 2006 - 7:54 AM SL Time
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Work on the Norochcholai coal power plant will be launched this month as a matter of national priority to overcome the current energy crisis, Power and Energy Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne said.
He was addressing a meeting at Norochcholai on April 29 following an observation tour during which he met 74 families to be resettled in another location to make way for the coal power project to educate them on the compensation payments and added benefits that would accrue to them after resettlement.
The Minister said it is imperative for the Government to set up coal power plants if it was to provide low cost electricity to its people.
Earlier people of Puttalam were misled by the racketeer oil mafia which spread false rumours to drive fear in to their minds about the proposed coal power plant. Now fears entertained by the people about the coal power plant have been totally cleared following the recent tour of China made by their representatives to study the feasibility of such plants set up there, he said.
Seneviratne said according to current predictions, the country is due to face a grave energy crisis in 2010. `Kukule ganga with a capacity of 80 megawatts is the only major hydro-electricity project we have added to the national grid so far since 1994.
There is a 10 per cent increase in the annual demand for electricity in this country and 150 megawatts had to be added to the national grid annually to cater to their demand. We would not have encountered any energy crisis if this coal power plant was set up in 1994`, the Minister said.
Seneviratne also inaugurated work on the widening and extension of the approach to the proposed power plant and the Daluwa worksite of the new housing scheme which would accommodate the 74 families displaced from Norochcholai during the tour.
CEB Chairman Chula Delgoda, Provincial Fisheries and Rural Development Minister Victor Anthony and Ministry Media Secretary Harsha B. Abeykoon accompanied the Minister during the tour.
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3 May 2006 02:39:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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Good job MR, you have achieved something that was impossible under other administrations.
thank god we have a good leader like you
this power plant is 20 years over due |
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