The Sh200 billion Lamu coal-fired power plant will cause massive environmental damages and deadly respiratory and other diseases, experts have warned. Health and environment experts warned the project will cause irreparable damages. They spoke at Laico Regency Hotel, Nairobi, on Friday during a public forum
Clean energy has become the buzzword for fighting the increasing threat posed by global warming. There is an urgent need to contain the rising temperatures before they increase by a fatal 2⁰C. Indeed, countries at the COP 21 in Paris, France put a ceiling to this
Chair Sam Bickersteth @SamBickersteth – CEO, Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) Speakers Neil Bird – Senior Research Fellow, ODI Shehnaaz Moussa – Director, SouthSouthNorth (SSN) Margaret Kamau – Independent strategic consultant Claire Monkhouse @monkhouseclaire – Manager, Sustainability and Climate Change, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) Description In December 2015,
Things are not looking good for the coal industry. In the latest blow to this fossil fuel, the world’s biggest coal company is closing a total of 37 mines. It seems that the rise of solar power is playing a major role in the decline
“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
we examine the main challenges of investing in the power industry in Kenya before reviewing the opportunities that are also available to investors. Challenges Power Infrastructure Kenya’s demand for electricity should rise at an annual average of 7.9% over the next decade. Despite Kenya’s positive
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,