Kenya coal in the media: 2021
Kenya coal coverage
1 min readMar 30, 2021
- An overview of the Lamu coal plant situation is published on ChinaDialogue.org.cn: “Kenyan coal project shows why Chinese investors need to take environmental risks seriously” (March 2021)
- From Save Lamu partner AJWS: Town Criers and Hand-Stitched Masks: How an AJWS Grantee Halted COVID-19 in Kenya’s Lamu Island (January 2021) (note: Covid is not quite halted in Lamu)
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- Extensive Vice article on Sendou coal plant turned potential coal mine, with references to African Development Bank consideration of support for Lamu coal plant
- As You Sow filed a shareholder proposal regarding General Electric’s adherence to the criteria of the Net Zero Indicator.
- Sustainable Energy Answer to Global Warming
- How ‘energy transition’ will impact Kenya this decade
- Star (Kenya) Why the Switch to Solar is Dead on Arrival
- Switch to Solar Not Dead on Arrival
- Epra races to strangle solar use
- CNN (10 December 2020): Activists are fighting for a renewable future in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chinese coal projects threaten to dirty those plans
- CGTN (7 December 2020): Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed set to meet Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta — “The two leaders will also visit Lamu in the coastal region of Kenya, where they will inspect the ongoing construction of the new Lamu Port, an anchor project of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor”
