Chevron begins tree planting drive in Habiganj
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- 2 October, 2024
Chevron Bangladesh and Green Savers, an environmental organisation, jointly inaugurated a tree planting programme in the vicinity of Chevron Bangladesh’s Bibiyana Gas Plant in Habiganj as part of the comprehensive tree planting initiative across the country to protect biodiversity.
Chevron Bangladesh launched a five-year plantation program to transform the landscape around its gas plant. This initiative will see the planting of over 4,000 highquality saplings, including a variety of flowers, fruit trees, wood trees, and medicinal plants.
Chief guest of the programme Fardoush Anwar, director of the Sylhet divisional office of the Department of Environment, said, ‘This initiative from corporate responsibility to environmental protection deserves praise, said a press release.
Eric M Walker, president and managing director of Chevron Bangladesh, said in his speech, ‘Tree Plantation offsets carbon emissions and commits to a greener, healthier future.’
In his welcome speech, Ahsan Rony, founder of Green Savers, said if top corporate houses like Chevron take such planned and sustainable initiatives to build a green Bangladesh and protect the environment, the country will be greener.
Deputy director of Habiganj District Agricultural Extension Department, Md Nur E Alam Siddiquee, Nabiganj UNO Anupam Das Anup; upazila agriculture officer of Nabiganj Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni; Nabiganj Police OC Mohammad Kamal Hossain, corporate affairs director, Muhammad Imrul Kabir from Chevron Bangladesh, local UP chairman along with distinguished local persons and environmentalists of the area were present at the inaugural ceremony.
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