A look at some of the major issues surrounding the building of the ‘Lamu Coal Power station’ in Kenya. It points to a broader question: should countries press ahead with heavily polluting coal power or do the costs outweigh the benefits in the long run?
“Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It’s a pseudonym for ‘no coal,’” the CEO of Murray Energy, the country’s largest privately held coal-mining company, told E&E News. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), also called carbon capture and storage, is the process of trapping carbon dioxide
Friday 14th July, 2017 | Laico Regency, Nairobi | 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm | Free Entry The Government of Kenya in conjunction with a private partner has proposed to construct a 1,050 Megawatt coal-fired power plant in Kwasasi, Lamu County. Given the magnitude of
Besides politics, never before has a matter elicited so much emotion and opposition in the county as the proposed 1050MW initiative. Locals and a number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have petitioned the Government to stop the construction of the Lamu coal plant, citing harmful environmental
atika nchi ya Kenya,kiwanda cha kaa jiwe kilichopendekezwa Lamu,kinatoa tishia la haraka kwa moja wapo wa eneo la asili na utamaduni kuu duniani na kupinga Maelewano ya Tabia Nchi ya Paris Lakini UNESCO,mwili wa kimataifa unaohusika na ulinzi wa maeneo haya,ina nguvu ya kufanya zaidi!
A first-of-its-kind “clean coal” power plant that utility owner Southern Co. spent years constructing in Mississippi may end up burning no coal at all — and instead just run like a natural gas generator. After years of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns,
The controversial Lamu coal plant could kill at least 1,600 people through dangerous pollutants and leave thousands more with life-threatening illnesses, one witness told the Environment Tribunal yesterday. He said the proposed plant’s Environment and Social Impact Assessment omits the impact of the pollutants on
Stemming from the latest conflicts around South Africa’s pending nuclear power expansion programme, said to be one of the largest government tenders in post-Apartheid South Africa, welcome news has arrived from Kenya’s Save Lamu community-based campaign and the deCOALonize movement opposing the development of a 1
The Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Regional Development, Prof. Judi Wakhungu stated that coal isn’t clean contrary to previous government position and claims by the project proponents, Amu Power. Those arguing against environmentalists opposing the projects have always maintained that the project will use clean coal technologies
This week, an important meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee came to an underwhelming end; thousands of people across the world were hoping the Committee, in its 41st session just concluded in Poland, would live up to