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CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO KENYA WU PENG INVITES DECOALONIZE MEMBERS FOR A MEETING TELLS THEM, HE PERSONALLY DOES NOT SUPPORT COAL PLANTS
In an extra ordinary move, the Chinese ambassador to Kenya Wu Peng invited members of the deCOALonize campaign to discuss the controversial Lamu Coal Power plant just two days after a land mark ruling that put the controversial project to a stop. The Ambassador assured the deCOALonize team that, “It has been and always will…
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LAMU AND KITUI COMMUNITIES PARTICIPATE IN A PEACEFUL MARCH PROTESTING THE MULTI-BILLION KILLER PROJECT
Story by Save Lamu/ Khadija Juma A time will come where the nation will be more important than individuals, the Lamu and Kitui communities are saying NO to the killer project, which as a result will come with alot of environmental destructions including climate change; it is therefore high time Kenya thinks of going green…
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THE POISON PLANT
Story by Save Lamu/Khadija Juma “I am not of today my child, I am from long ago. I saw the world smiling and laughing, today the world is crying” Such are the words of Mahmoud Hamid popularly known as Tike who is 84+ years old. He says them as he stares blankly at nothing in…
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SAVE LAMU WRITES AGAIN TO ICBC AND CHINESE EMBASSY ABOUT THE LAMU COAL PLANT
From the previous times we wrote to ICBC, and there was no response, this time we wrote again to them and the Chinese Embassy starting in 2019 February. The letters express the concerns of the Lamu community on the proposed Lamu Coal power plant. ICBC is the majority financier of the project. We ask for…
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NET DELAYS JUDGEMENT ON ESIA LICENCE
Written by Khadija Juma/Save Lamu The National Environmental Tribunal on 8th May postponed the Lamu coal case saying the judgement is not ready yet and that there are still pending issues which will come on the 24th of June 2019. Speaking during the proceedings at the Reinsurance plaza in Nairobi, the Chairman of the tribunal…