{"id":3615,"date":"2019-07-08T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T08:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"coal-plant-will-harm-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/08\/coal-plant-will-harm-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Plant Will Harm Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By COLLINS ODOTE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya\u2019s legislative and policy documents are explicit in\ntheir recognition of the importance of coal as a source of energy in Kenya and\none of the key options for helping meet the country\u2019s energy needs. This is\ndespite the international contestations over the continued reliance on coal\ndespite its negative environmental effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is captured in the\nstatement that coal is a dirty source of energy. Supporters of coal on the\nother hand argue that it is possible to have clean coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the background\nagainst which the Lamu Coal Plant must be viewed. Following the issuance of an\nenvironmental impact assessment license by the National Environment Management\nAuthority, a coal power plant in Lamu was to be operationalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the plant has\nseen controversies throughout its life. Opposed by both residents of Lamu and\ncivil society, the debate was settled, at least for the time being by the\nNational Environmental Tribunal, which in a decision delivered on June 26, 2019\ncancelled the license by Nema to AMU Power Company Limited to establish and\noperate the plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya has over the last\nfew years been working on a strategy and process to increase its energy\nproduction capacity to meet the energy needs not just for present uses but also\nanticipated demand in the journey to increased industrialization. It has sought\nto expand its energy options to include not just coal but also nuclear sources\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/columnists\/Coal-plant-will-harm-environment\/4259356-5186514-i6js7s\/index.html\">read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By COLLINS ODOTE Kenya\u2019s legislative and policy documents are explicit in their recognition of the importance of coal as a source of energy in Kenya and one of the key&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}