Source: Climate Change News By Lou Del Bello in Nairobi Kenya risks busting its climate target with a Chinese-backed coal power plant in the middle of a sensitive coastal ecosystem. Local communities are set to lodge an appeal against the environmental permit on Monday, fearing its impact on fishing and tourism.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Too poor to buy land where they grew up on Kenya’s palm-fringed southern coast, Sylvester Jefua and his wife migrated 300 kms northwards to Witu Forest, where they felled seven acres of trees and built a mud and thatch house for their family. Ten years later,
Save Lamu, Lamu On 6th December 2016, Save Lamu and its partners held protests in objection to the Energy Regulatory Commission holding a public hearing on the Lamu Coal Power Plant at a venue that is not only inaccessible and unsafe for members of Save Lamu…Read more
Photos of the protest and press conference held by Save Lamu on December 6th, 2016 after the Energy Regulation Commission (ERC) had chosen an inaccessible and unsafe venue for its public hearing in objection to the Lamu Coal Power Plant.
By Prince Papa, 350.org The public hearing between Save Lamu, the local county Government, Amu Power and NEMA that was planned to take place on December 6th didn’t finally happen as scheduled. Save Lamu activists and supporters organized an alternative public hearing in Lamu after the Energy Regulation Commission (ERC) had
The Mipakani Project is an open-access knowledge base covering the Lamu-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor and other development initiatives in northern Kenya and bordering countries. Since the Lamu coal plant is proposed to be constructed within the LAPSSET port area in Lamu, the Mipakani website is resourceful to track the
Source: Business Daily Africa The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has rejected the application for a power generation license for the Sh200 billion coal plant that was set to be set up at the Kwasasi area in Lamu. The regulatory body has halted the licencing process until objections to establishment of
Source: Business Daily Africa Global environmental organisations have opposed Kenya’s plan to construct its first coal-fired power plant in Lamu over environmental concerns even as the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on Wednesday backed the project. Switzerland-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) expressed reservations warning of likely health risks to the people
The National Environmental Tribunal (NET) Stop order of the proposed Lamu Coal plant addressed to Amu Power. Download the letter here
Source: The Star The Energy Regulatory Commission has rescinded a power generation license for a Sh200 billion coal plant in Lamu county. Amu Power – a consortium of Gulf Energy and Centum Investment – was to be set up in Kwasasi. On Monday, the ERC sent a letter to Amu