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Post by fyi on Jul 5, 2012 10:06:12 GMT 3
the character of Ochilo is not new. the Prime Minister and the Minister for Energy should act and act quick before everything gets rotten..word has it that the absence of Mr. David Otwoma has left everything at stand still. There is nothing going on absolutely They should in fact make a courtesy call to the NEPC offices and ask about those ladies who are sleeping with them. Word has it that he is never at his office. He is mostly travelling and squandering tax payers money for nothing. Why did he give the most experienced nuclear scientist a compulsory leave? and now wants to implicate him of the offence of absence at work simply because their earlier charges could not hold water? where in the world is the PM and the Minister? they should stop talking and begin walking their talk asap. or else this will be a big scandal which will taint their image in the coming campaigns.
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Post by kasuku on Jul 7, 2012 13:03:53 GMT 3
And why is the media quiet on this obviously milking cow. There is absolutely no serious attempt at bringing Nuclear power to Kenya. If Raila doesn't stop it now. He will answer to it later when they have eaten enough and called the project off on grounds of not sustainable. What we all moraly already know already. If that money, now wasted on milking the cow called "Nuclear power-plant project of kenya", Kenya could subsidize renewable energy projects, we would come faster to Clean energy technology than talking about it will ever do. Meanwhile the worlds future High Technology, "renewable energy technology" keeps on expanding, while we look and keep on wasting money on corruption. __________ Siemens to Tackle Wind-Power Doldrums With Gas Boost Option Siemens AG (SIE) plans to introduce technology in 2015 that will allow wind-turbine electricity to be converted into gas, giving wind farms an alternative revenue stream when the grid is fully charged. The electrolyser, a soccer-field sized plant that converts power into storable hydrogen, is in the testing phase, said Michael Weinhold, chief technology officer of Siemens’ energy businesses. It promises to overcome the challenge of how to harness fluctuating electricity output from wind farms, especially at night when demand is at its lowest. Siemens, based in Munich, allots 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) annually to devising new technology for the energy industry. Wind farms have suffered commercially because power can’t be stored on a large scale. By contrast, the converted hydrogen can be stored by feeding it into the gas grid. “The main problem today is the mismatch of renewable power generation and demand,” Weinhold said in an interview. “If we can offer solutions to solve that, we have a business case.” While Germany subsidizes renewable energy, there’s no reimbursement when supply exceeds demand. Prices on the European Energy (CNE) Exchange have on occasion turned negative, implying wind farms pay to offload output. Europe’s largest economy has about half a gigawatt of offshore wind-power connected to the grid, and aims for a 20-fold increase to 10 gigawatts by 2020 after turning away from nuclear power. Electrolysers may appeal to utilities or financial investors seeking to profit from fluctuating electricity prices, Weinhold said. For Siemens, it’s part of a plan to boost revenue from energy equipment by more than 40 percent. Siemens booked 203 million euros in charges in its most recent quarter at its power-transmission division amid delays connecting offshore wind parks to the power grid. “We believe storage will make economic sense if more and more renewable power comes on-line and depresses power prices during peak supply times, a trend we will already witness this year,” Weinhold said. “We are currently testing the technology with customers, and it’s at the brink of being commercially viable.” To contact the editor responsible for this story: Benedikt Kammel at bkammel@bloomberg.net. www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-13/siemens-to-tackle-wind-power-doldrums-with-gas-boost-option.html
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Post by podp on Jul 13, 2012 8:29:26 GMT 3
Slowly but surely as the sun rises we are becoming bolder when dealing with the 'uta do what' merchants of impunity. We had 'Its Our Turn to Eat' and soon we will have 'Peeling Back the Mask'. After considerable experience with our country, Kenya situated strategically in our region, East Africa, sharing lots of culture, and political landscape we have started narrating our story that has long needed telling about Africa's failure to come to grips with the tyranny of corruption. Corruption is everywhere, the 1st world i.e. USA, Western Europe, Japana etc. and the emerging Tiger giants i.e. China, Soth Korea, Singapore etc. What differentiates us is they take percieved corrupt persons to face their judiciary as the story below says. When will start dealing with our lords of impunity in the same way so that we approach the realization of Vision 2030? www.world-nuclear-news.org/C_KHNP_corruption_arrests_1206121.html'Corruption' arrests in South Korea 12 July 2012 Prosecutors have arrested 22 people as they investigate alleged widespread corruption surrounding Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power's (KHNP's) procurement processes. An investigation began in September 2011 after a tip-off from a citizen in Ulsan, who reported that he may have witnessed bribery. This led to the arrest on 24 March this year of one KHNP employee and further investigation has now unveiled what prosecutors called 'a wide range of corruption and irregularity'. The problem stretched from head office to the power plant, throughout the procurement process in which utility officials liaised with companies through professional brokers. Prosecutors said that one supplier submitted an inflated price for work related to man-machine interface systems. A purchaser was then bribed KRW80 million ($69,000) to accept this as a standard price. One KHNP employee involved in this had personal business interests in the supplier, while a senior official was bribed to remain silent. Another example detailed by the prosecutor concerned a supplier using single-clip ties to secure insulation within a nuclear power plant's containment building, whereas a double-clip tie should have been used. Over 3 years and six months, the company paid a plant employee a substantial sum to keep quiet. Other examples of alleged wrongdoing included a KHNP worker who was paid to remove small nuclear power plant components and pass them on so that a company could copy them. Another gained KRW100 million ($86,000) from insider trading of shares in suppliers. And the suppliers themselves were said to have colluded over electronic bidding processes. For their part, brokers also engaged in bribery when registering companies to bid for contracts. The investigation has so far identified 22 individuals and nine companies that it accuses of exchanging some KRW2.2 billion ($1.9 million) in bribes. Reports in South Korean media indicate several more people could be indicted as the investigation continues. Ulsan prosecutors underlined that corruption related to a nuclear power plant was made more serious by the potential implications for safety and for that reason heavier punishments could be expected. KHNP is the operator of South Korea's 23 nuclear power reactors, which between them produce about one third of the country's electricity.
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Post by b6k on Jul 13, 2012 10:13:49 GMT 3
Slowly but surely as the sun rises we are becoming bolder when dealing with the 'uta do what' merchants of impunity. We had 'Its Our Turn to Eat' and soon we will have 'Peeling Back the Mask'. After considerable experience with our country, Kenya situated strategically in our region, East Africa, sharing lots of culture, and political landscape we have started narrating our story that has long needed telling about Africa's failure to come to grips with the tyranny of corruption. Corruption is everywhere, the 1st world i.e. USA, Western Europe, Japana etc. and the emerging Tiger giants i.e. China, Soth Korea, Singapore etc. What differentiates us is they take percieved corrupt persons to face their judiciary as the story below says. When will start dealing with our lords of impunity in the same way so that we approach the realization of Vision 2030? Podp, now you can see why some of us have concerns about KE going nuclear. It's one thing to purchase the wrong equipment for a wee hydro-dam in one of our numerous silted rivers, & a totally different ballgame when you shortchange a nuclear power plant. The very same PM who has proved time & again that those around him are reeking to high heaven under corrupt deals is the one pushing for a nuclear powered KE. That should be enough to get anyone thinking twice about us going down that route.....
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Post by podp on Jul 15, 2012 20:33:45 GMT 3
b6k,
Usually and I am yet to know of a single country where it was different, nuclear energy programme, is a collective attainment.
So please if it is only the PM who is pro nuclear and say the President is not then it is a non starter. The most important stakeholders, though, are citizens of the county where the nuclear power plant(s) will be located. Capabilities which is a sum of capacities (people) and competencies (technology know how and why) follow.
Recently, for example in Lithuania it was 70 for and 2 against; Belarus when their Cabinet voted it was something like 84 for and 5 against; Britain it was 86% for and 14% against. In all those cases even if the person of Prime Minister, President etc was the champion what mattered was the population not an individual.
So if you are Kenyan and as b6k you do not support nuclear and the number of b6k is around 50% then the programme will not fly. So I would beseech you to not tag the nuclear programme on any one individual because there is no history of an individual being the reason a country took up nuclear but rather the citizens needs.
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Post by b6k on Jul 15, 2012 20:56:06 GMT 3
b6k, Usually and I am yet to know of a single country where it was different, nuclear energy programme, is a collective attainment. So please if it is only the PM who is pro nuclear and say the President is not then it is a non starter. The most important stakeholders, though, are citizens of the county where the nuclear power plant(s) will be located. Capabilities which is a sum of capacities (people) and competencies (technology know how and why) follow. Recently, for example in Lithuania it was 70 for and 2 against; Belarus when their Cabinet voted it was something like 84 for and 5 against; Britain it was 86% for and 14% against. In all those cases even if the person of Prime Minister, President etc was the champion what mattered was the population not an individual. So if you are Kenyan and as b6k you do not support nuclear and the number of b6k is around 50% then the programme will not fly. So I would beseech you to not tag the nuclear programme on any one individual because there is no history of an individual being the reason a country took up nuclear but rather the citizens needs. Podp, let us not sweat the small stuff. That the PM pushes the nuclear question is without a doubt. If indeed Kibaki himself is also pro-nuclear then we really have a reason to be collectively worried. Having both halves of the loaf collectively shortchanging nuclear facilities is a recipe for disaster that b6k & all other Kenyans need not risk.
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Post by podp on Jul 16, 2012 15:59:04 GMT 3
More energy expenditures are needed as the country's thirst for energy goes up....the more the merrier Energy firm buys Sh5bn rigs from China www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Energy+firm+buys+Sh5bn+rigs+from+China+/-/1006/1454816/-/ele2hm/-/index.htmlShe noted that a rig costs about Sh2.5 billion ($30 million). The Menengai project has a potential of producing 1,600MW and the first phase of the project is expected to produce 400MW while the second phase will produce 800MW. Drilling of the first well started on February last year and was completed in May 2011. Four wells have been completed so far and are discharging steam capable of producing 24MW, while three others are undergoing tests. At least four modular power plants will be built at the Menengai site by 2016. Nine local and international firms have expressed interest to build the power plants. The Menengai project is one of the Vision 2030 flagship projects, and is expected to accelerate the harvesting of geothermal power.
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Post by podp on Jul 17, 2012 20:06:13 GMT 3
b6k, You wrote 'That the PM pushes the nuclear question is without a doubt. Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=6228&page=13#ixzz20tqfmm7mWell in MMs book pages 175 to 177 he has something. Here we go 'The nepotism, cronyism and plain irresponsibility defies reason, logic or commonsense...I tried to remind Raila repeatedly, of those solemn undertakings to the people of Kenya. I openly challenged the decision to appoint his older brother Oburu...Ass Minister Finance....cousin Jakoyo as chief whip, sister Akinyi to diplomatic post in Los Angeles and Achieng to chair the Railway Workers pension Board....cousin Carey Onyango as Permanent Secretary of Regional Development, Elkanah Odembo (Jakoyo's brother-in-law) as Kenya's Ambassador to the USA, his cousin Paul Gondi as executive chairman of the Geothermal Development Company; another cousin from Sakwa in S. Nyanza, Ochillo Ayacko, as the executive chairman of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project...another cousin from Sakwa, Bondo, Joe Ager as a senior officer of Kenya Power Lighting Company..... The list goes on and on....Peeling Back the Mask
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Post by fyi on Jul 18, 2012 8:19:13 GMT 3
podp, you see, the book just confirms my ealier contribution that the pm is not serious about this nuclear energy thing. infact it confirms that he may be an impersonation of the umbrella body of the merchants of impunity in the nuclear project. the pm knows very well that NEPC is in the wrong hands of leadership and yet he is still mum till now.unless he tells us that he is a slow thinker, or a slow actor. are there no better leaders to appoint? no scientist to lead the project? there is no nuclear project in the entire world thats being led by a person of such a background as in the case of kenya. and more so a leader who is eager to get rid of the right people in the project such as the highly respected nuclear scientist David Otwoma who is also well known worldwide. how would you appoint a person of legal background to lead such a sensitive project? this is the typical african felony that continues to astound the western countries - chosing the wrong people to lead the right organization- impunity.
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Post by b6k on Jul 18, 2012 8:36:52 GMT 3
b6k, You wrote 'That the PM pushes the nuclear question is without a doubt. Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=6228&page=13#ixzz20tqfmm7mWell in MMs book pages 175 to 177 he has something. Here we go 'The nepotism, cronyism and plain irresponsibility defies reason, logic or commonsense...I tried to remind Raila repeatedly, of those solemn undertakings to the people of Kenya. I openly challenged the decision to appoint his older brother Oburu...Ass Minister Finance....cousin Jakoyo as chief whip, sister Akinyi to diplomatic post in Los Angeles and Achieng to chair the Railway Workers pension Board....cousin Carey Onyango as Permanent Secretary of Regional Development, Elkanah Odembo (Jakoyo's brother-in-law) as Kenya's Ambassador to the USA, his cousin Paul Gondi as executive chairman of the Geothermal Development Company; another cousin from Sakwa in S. Nyanza, Ochillo Ayacko, as the executive chairman of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project...another cousin from Sakwa, Bondo, Joe Ager as a senior officer of Kenya Power Lighting Company..... The list goes on and on....Peeling Back the Mask Podp, & that still doesn't send alarm bells ringing for you? FYI has a point. Nuclear energy is being considered not because it is good for the country but because it provides another lucrative avenue to "eat". I still think because of the dangers involved in embracing this technology it is best to give it as wide a berth as possible until our tendency to "eat" as Kenyans is better kept in check. The list of cronyism & nepotism you've highlighted above doesn't give me much hope that Raila will be the right leader to bring this culture of eating to an end.
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Post by podp on Jul 18, 2012 9:24:21 GMT 3
b6k,
On nuclear energy it is always important for its accomplishment to avoid trying to attribute its success and/or failure to an individual. My reason for posting just one side of the leadership was not to focus on an individual.
Please as much as it is in vogue to isolate individuals, like the PM and make them friends and/or enemies of nuclear development, that is taking the simplistic route. Nevertheless it is very serious not to consider the leadership (whether the PM, President, Civil Society etc.) position. It is important we cuddle criticism for that is the only way we can build a credible and a leadership that enjoys legitimacy from the people including those who do not agree with their ideas they may front. Kenya, my brother needs to move on, and we all are relevant and especially new entrants into the leadership arena. That is why it would be better to embrace new technologies including nuclear that may propel us forward rather than shun them because some individuals fronting them, like PM in your case and President for others, we find them unpalatable.
Make noise about his (PM, President, etc) style and MM in Peeling Back the Mask page 176 notes that the personalization of power is largely responsible for the Big Man syndrome and the vicious abuse of power, the tyranny and pillage of public resources that occur. It is better to note that all leaders including Raila should be shamed if as MM says 'Raila's hiring of his family members, relatives and village mates would be one of the worst kinds of nepotism I would ever encounter in my life, and in many ways, a harbinger for worse things to come'. Like you MM focuses on Raila as if we would not have a country without Raila! So what should we do on development of nuclear? Wait until Raila is off stage?
Smell the coffee and let us deal with impunity without shying from advancement, or you think if we return to stone age we will have dealt with the likes of Raila once and for all? Nuclear energy development is a system not an 'important' cog like one individual called Raila you are more keen to associate it with. Modern nuclear power plants may last in excess of 80 years producing electricity. If we could be all alive for another 100 years do you think Raila would matter? Move on as Kenya surely will with or without many of us as individuals.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 18, 2012 21:08:23 GMT 3
b6k, (...) Make noise about his (PM, President, etc) style and MM in Peeling Back the Mask page 176 notes that the personalization of power is largely responsible for the Big Man syndrome and the vicious abuse of power, the tyranny and pillage of public resources that occur. It is better to note that all leaders including Raila should be shamed if as MM says 'Raila's hiring of his family members, relatives and village mates would be one of the worst kinds of nepotism I would ever encounter in my life, and in many ways, a harbinger for worse things to come'. (...) Where is Podipo, the Jukwaaist who has confessed to have been re-reading Fanon reloaded? Okay Podp, this would be a good moment to educate us on why the petit-bourgeoisie, as a comprador ruling class and elite, whether from MK, Kavirondo Gulf, Nandi Hills, or cattle-rustling Ankole turned revenue-rustling treasury-looters in Kampala, are doomed to the practice of primitive accumulation, and as such, are predestined to aggravate the contradictions of their societies, by yet authorizing more variants by their ineptitude and corruption. Nepotism being a very powerful instrument in their rule and feeding frenzy! (I could not refind the thread where you so roundly criticized the mentality and limitations of the middle-class. This class now, as otishotish puts it, dredging Miguna's swamp to deflect his sting and neutralize his venom. PS: By the way that 'ngege', was it from the 'source' or from a city-by fish-pond?
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Post by podp on Jul 19, 2012 11:36:08 GMT 3
Jakaswaga,
Please refer to past notes or google Relative Opacity: A New Translation of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth*Mission Betrayed or Fulfilled?
Otherwise this month the revision is on Autumn of the Patriarch. As a background, if it was Kenya, he is unwittingly installed in the seat of power by the groupies, mobs, sycophants and similar related ethnic bigots keen on rustling state coffers as the fifth dictator in fifty years, and then he stays there for the next hundred. He realizes that he has no choice but to stay in power because if he relaxes his hold, he will either be killed or detained a fourth time, or be banished forever to live a penniless, sad life, far away from his land. With every brutality he commits, such as the unceremonious sacking/dismissal of MM, he closes a door on reconciliation. Till ironically, by the time he reaches the autumn of his life, the power structure around (remember the Phobias and Manias before he succeeded to be President)) him wants him to stay, and hence and he lives his last years, lonely, surrounded by farm animals, detached from reality, watching the world on closed-circuit TV (showing him in his younger days opening party functions meeting Chinese, Americans etc. and making deals for himself and Kenya).
But this thread is on energy so maybe you will have to open something different we continue the debate in that different thread, please. Otherwise kasuku might be on my case.
PS: ...the ngege was a mutant. What you call GMO and I call biotechnology has produced a species that takes 3 months to mature (the one from the source takes 6 months), its tastier you do not need roiko additives hence boiled and takes longer to go bad... but again start a different thread please. Kasuku may strike and I have nowhere to run to.
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Post by podp on Jul 23, 2012 16:27:39 GMT 3
coal is cheapest followed by nuclear and then geothermal...read more www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Kibaki+to+launch+construction+of+Sh82bn+geothermal+plant/-/1006/1460118/-/rp9won/-/index.htmlKibaki to launch construction of Sh82bn geothermal plant President Kibaki will on Monday preside over the groundbreaking ceremony for a Sh82.5 billion geothermal power project, officially kicking off the construction of Kenya’s single largest green energy generation plant. The 280MW Olkaria geothermal project (artist’s version right) will encompass two plants, each having two units and generating a total of 140MW of electricity from geothermal sources. The project will be based in the Olkaria complex where two other geothermal plants – Olkaria I and Olkaria II – are located and is expected to cost $981 million, or Sh 82.5 billion. The country’s main power generator Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) reckons the project will be its greatest asset to move the country away from over-reliance on expensive hydro-generation, which is unpredictable given that it relies on the weather conditions. “This project is the most significant power project ever undertaken in our country’s history. It will raise our total capacity by 25 per cent at a go, pumping in 280MW of power in 2014,” KenGen managing director Eddy Njoroge said in an interview ahead of the groundbreaking ceremony. The plant will be the second- biggest infrastructure project after the multi-billion-shilling Lamu Port and the Lamu-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) corridor inaugurated by President Kibaki this year. KenGen says the contractors are already on site and have laid the groundwork for the construction expected to be completed in two years. The main plant will be constructed by a consortium of contractors including Japan’s Toyota Tsusho Corp and South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction. Sinopec of China is also on site, developing a steam field, the construction of a sub-station and transmission is in the hands of KEC of India while New Zealand’s Sinclair Knight Mertz. The power generation firm said it is finalising other preparatory stages including relocating families that will be displaced by the project. According to new timelines, local infrastructure and resettlement of people around the project that began last month should be completed by February 2013. The Olkaria complex is currently generating 15OMW of power. Once the 280MW project is complete in 2014, the area will be generating a total of 430MW of electricity, which is slightly more than 40 per cent of total generating capacity by KenGen. The plant is funded jointly by the Kenya Government, World Bank, Germany’s Development Bank KfW, European Investment Bank, Japan International Corporation Agency and French Development Agency, AFD and KenGen. It comes at a time when the country is grappling with a steady increase in power demand which has seen the reliance on independent power producers, most of whom who use expensive diesel generators. Kenya plans to add between 1913 MW and 2213MW to the national grid in the next three years. According to KenGen, this project will just be the first on its list. “Studies have confirmed a further 560MW potential in the Olkaria complex. This is our next focus after the 280MW project. Our plans are to have geothermal contribute above 50 per cent of our total electricity capacity in five years time, so that the country can avoid expensive modes of generation,” Mr Njoroge said. evanessintl•2 days ago a good move to greener energy resources and to achieve and meet 2030 economical goals ,with this and turkana project kenya will not need ethiopia supply becasue it will be cheaper to have of own ..these 3 multibillions projects will trigers the greatest economicals strings within kenyan state and surroundings and if and i mean if and i pray we get a good leadership kenya will be a gold tiger of africa before 2030 Kibaki please start a water desalination plant along the coast before you retire and get rid of RVR, get us an electric train all the way from Mombasa to malaba. kibet Nyongi•2 days ago− It is to my dismay that most investers are foreigners but I firmly believe that we can also share the cost through citizen shareholding and not allowing the government dominance on the energy sector as it has been in the past. Those people displaced should share the profits from the project despite the compensation for the displacement. The foreign investers are there fo short term and it is high time that we realize the private citizen involvement. Many people have their lives dream and history in the areas they lost to these projects. In the past it has been real lousey relocating the diplaced. Please do justice to ensure a better life for them through a trasparent and generous compensation. I would like to urge the ministry of energy to expand on use and exploration of natural gas. I belief a better country achieve more when self sufficient yet generous to those willing to share in sacrifice. Kibet Nyongi mwangi kamau•2 days ago One billion dollars for a paltry 280MW. Who is fooling who on the issue of the cheapness of geothermal power? At that price we can get 1000MW of power from coal and hence increase our capacity by 100% at one go. The green agenda is western propaganda designed to divest the little resources that income poor countries like ours can muster from tried and tested energy sources like coal. Here's a fun fact for everyone; China uses coal to service 80% of its energy requirements....
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Post by podp on Aug 10, 2012 14:46:26 GMT 3
Should we not save the resources for ourselves. When we start looking for energy and are not able to do with solar energy we shall end up creating coal powered stations, if we let our coal go already then we are in big trouble as we shall be paying an importation price for it. T he above is by a commentor at www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Man+behind+Chinese+firm+in+Sh3+4tr+Mui+coal+mines+/-/539550/1475750/-/9s84nyz/-/index.htmlMan behind Chinese firm in Sh3.4tr Mui coal mines When George Kariithi, a millionaire businessman, first got wind that the government had intentions of leasing out the multi-billion-shilling Mui Coal fields two years ago, he instantly sensed a lucrative business opportunity. It struck him that he could use his close connections with two Chinese friends and mining executives to bag the lucrative contract and he quickly arranged for a flight to China to meet Li Yuxin and Yang Wusheng. As an experienced hand in natural resources exploration, Mr Kariithi knew that his Chinese friends had at their disposal the technical expertise and financial muscle needed to win the lucrative tender. Using his company, Great Lakes Corporation, which he co-owns with a New Zealand national, Ian See, Mr Kariithi formed a consortium with Mr Yuxin and Mr Yusheng, the Fenxi Mining Industry Group. On August 24 last year, Mr Kariithi and his Chinese partners received communication from the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy, Patrick Nyoike, informing them that their consortium had won the concession to mine coal in the Mui basin’s blocks C and D. The two blocks are thought to have more than 400 million tonnes of coal reserves valued at Sh3.4 trillion ($40 billion), according to the Ministry of Energy estimates. Mr Kariithi, 58, a trained pharmacist and one of the lesser known Kenyan business magnates, had won one of the most hotly contested and lucrative Kenya government tenders ever, but controversy was soon to follow award of the contract. When the Business Daily caught up with him, he was preparing to leave for China to meet his business partners. He was concerned that negative publicity on the tendering process was “distracting people from the bigger picture,” and feared that the controversy would delay the start of the mining process and hold back economic benefits the local community and the country would derive from it. “We won the tender in an open process, and I’m willing to answer, as I should, all the questions that are arising, we have nothing to hide,” said Mr Kariithi. For history see also www.businessdailyafrica.com/Ministry+invites+firms+to+explore+more+coal+blocks+/-/539546/1426860/-/auar7h/-/index.html“The purpose of this exploration is to establish coal potential and delineate more coal blocks for concessioning,” the ministry said. These resources are expected to provide up to 2,400MW of electricity by 2030 as per the Least Cost Power Development Plan (LCPDP) 2011/2031. For history see also www.businessdailyafrica.com/Pre+qualified+firms+to+tender+for+coal+power+projects/-/539552/1204826/-/vifnf2z/-/index.htmlAt $0.0954 (Sh8.59) per kilowatt hour, coal is the fourth cheapest source of power after geothermal $0.084 (Sh7.56), nuclear $0.0684 (Sh6.16) and hydro $0.0383 kwh (Sh3.45 per kilowatthour. Wind costs 12 US cents (Sh10.8) per kilowatthour.
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Post by kasuku on Aug 11, 2012 11:51:55 GMT 3
More from the Toboa Ukweli folks:
More on the Rot in the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project
By the Toboa Ukweli team
The mismanagement of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project, with the controversial George Ochilo Ayako at the helm as the Executive Chairman threatens to scuttle the international goodwill that Kenya has enjoyed from such key partners as the International Atomic Energy Agency.
By banishing David Otwoma, the nuclear scientist seconded by the Public Service Commission to serve as Secretary to the Nuclear Electricity Project’s board, Mr. Ayako has effectively undermined the credibility of the KNEP in its attempts at resource mobilization. Below is an excerpt from an email dispatched from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency to officials of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project now working without the valuable and critical technical input from Mr. Otwoma:
From: x.xxxxxx [mailtox.xxxxxx@iaea.org] Sent: 22 June 2012 04:28 To: Boniface Kinyanjui; Winnie Ndubai
Subject: Concept for 2014-2015
Boniface&Winnie,
This is to inform you that what you presented as a concept for 2014/2015 cycle could not measure up of what is expected. There is now a window for you to rework on your conceptand submit the same by next week otherwise there will be nothing for Nuclear power. It maybe worth while to consider consulting David Otwoma as he is familiar on what is expected and has been a valuable local and international expert nuclear project formulations.
What was event from what you presented is that you did not understand how to link your current project with the next. In other words you are not sure what do to next after this project!!
Please urgently revert back to me if you are determined to do so. x.xxxxxxx
And in a veiled reference to the continued marginalization of David Otwoma the same official sent the following email:
From: x.xxxxxx <x.xxxxxxi@iaea.org> Date: Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:05 PM Subject: RE: Concept for 2014-15 cycle: KEN2005 To: bwwekesa@xxx.xx Cc: bkkinyanjui@xxxx.xxx To: Boniface Wekesa Wanyama P.O. BOX 30623-00100, National Council for Science and Technology, NAIROBI,Kenya.
Please if possible advise the formulators of the next CPN on Nuclear Energy accordingly as per our excellent discussions. We will be in Kenya and will welcome more deliberations with all, especially the Kenyan experts who are highly regarded here but unfortunately you ar under utilizing them. Best regards, x.xxxxxx
Our sources inform us that absence of Mr. Otwoma from the day to day running of the Nuclear Electricity Project seems to have had a negative financial and monetary impact on the activities of the project.
Of the allocated 200 Million last financial year (July 2011 to June 2012) a whopping 50 Million Kenya Shillings was taken back by Treasury presumably because the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project was unable to utilize this amount that had already been budgeted for before it was allocated. As you can see from the attached Excel file, more than half of the funds allocated for travel and training was spent by the Executive Chairman, raising audit concerns as these disbursements were not per the performance contract signed by the Secretary. Mr. Otwoma’s focus in requesting the money for travel and training was to have young, technical competent Kenyans with professional aspirations benefit from such support with the projected goal that after ten years it is this generation of Kenyans who would be in charge when the country was on the cusp of rolling out its nuclear program for peaceful economic activities. Other related audit queries had to do with the large expenditure used to pay the 13 Committee Members when they purported to meet (with some of these meetings totally outside the mandate of that committee).
In a case of grand coalition collusion in corrupt and unethical activities, the minister for energy who is from the PNU side seems to be in cahoots with the Executive Chairman, a former cabinet minister and an insider in the ODM party. Information at our disposal indicates that the minister appears to have handpicked 12 people from his back yard, including a potential in law to be placed under questionable circumstances within the Nuclear Electricity Project. A spouse of a senior manager at a state corporation under the aegis of the same ministry is among those irregularly deployed. The wife of an assistant minister who is a close ally to the minister in question is part of that tally giving rise to questions of probity within the new constitutional dispensation.
We know all these individuals by their full names and we have chosen to with hold their identities for now along with other sordid personal details not yet in the public domain.
Of the 40 opportunities given to Kenyans to study for six weeks at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University earlier this year, only 27 Kenyans eventually went as the Chairman was reported to be demanding kick backs. KIRDI coughed 1,500,000 kshs to send two people, Kenya Bureau of Standards a similar amount to send a man with his wife; Kenya Power too to sent the afore said spouse of the senior manager together with one technically competent person; Radiation Protection Board only sent one person while the officer at the other end feigned illness at last moment to keep the cash; KenGen paid but gave the Chairman to use at his discretion so he pocketed half and paid for a lady he is supposed to be very close to.He also rewarded the Human Resource Manager and the Financial manager for being obedient by letting them also go for the course even though the trip was meant for technical staff connected to nuclear electricity project.
Watch this space!
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Aug 11, 2012 12:29:05 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 11, 2012 12:37:30 GMT 3
Please record this things carefully. They form a body of evidence which we will use later to close our cases of summary executions in the blink of an eye --Said a french Jacobin as he heard of the latest episode of corruption in the aristocratic class.
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Post by podp on Aug 11, 2012 22:47:54 GMT 3
Please record this things carefully. They form a body of evidence which we will use later to close our cases of summary executions in the blink of an eye --Said a french Jacobin as he heard of the latest episode of corruption in the aristocratic class. www.the-star.co.ke/local/northeastern/89144-mp-ngilu-to-block-mui-miningWater minister Charity Kaluki Ngilu and Mutitu MP Kiema Kilonzo have received public approval from Mui Coal Basin residents to block a Chinese company from mining the mineral. During a whirlwind tour of the coal belt on Thursday, the duo addressed meetings at Karung’a, Mathuki, Mui, Miambani, Mutitu and Sombe markets. By a show of hands the residents gave them the go ahead to use all means including court action to block the coal mining unless locals get a 50-50 share of the accrued benefits with the investors. The two leaders have constantly shown open reservations over the awarding of the mining concession in Blocks C and D on the Mui basin. They said that their fears had been vindicated after it emerged that China’s Fenxi Industry Mining Company is fronted by powerful individuals. Although the meeting at Mui was interrupted by youths with occasional shouts of the Wiper Democratic Party slogans, those in attendance generally gave the duothe backing to block Fenxi from mining the coal. Security officers in two vehicles, led by the Mwingi police chief, Simon Birir trailed Ngilu and Kiema’s convoy to forestall any possible clash between the Ngilu team and the Wiper backers who were also on tow. Ngilu dismissed the aggressors as hopeless hirelings of Mwingi south MP David Musila. “The wealth of Kitui is the property of the Kitui people and woe to all those out to take advantage and disenfranchise the locals. Not an inch of the Kamba soil that contains the coal will go to anybody before it is properly negotiated. That will not happen under our watch,” ,” Ngilu said. Kilonzo said due diligence was not followed in awarding the concession.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 12:24:55 GMT 3
Plans to establish nuclear power plant challenged
SATURDAY, 11 AUGUST 2012 00:08 BY JILLO KADIDA HARMFUL? A nuclear power plant in Doel, Belgium. Photo/AFP Kenya’s dreams of establishing a nuclear power plant is facing its first hurdle after a man moved to court seeking to stop the government from going ahead with the project. Dr Josef Kipkemoi Kitur is opposing the plan to establish the nuclear plant by 2017 to become energy sufficient. He says the negative implications of having nuclear plant outweigh its positives and as a result the court should intervene and stop the process. Kitur’s main concern is devastating effect nuclear energy will have on environment.
In his view energy ministry is going about the business of establish nuclear plant without fully acknowledging and appreciating the greater risks involved in the nuclear energy. He wondered why Kenya chose to go for nuclear energy when many international communities are campaigning against it and withdrawing from it due to its negative environmental degradation.
Kitur says that the principle of sustainable development requires that economic and social development can be sustainable only if environment is protected from degradation. He notes that the fissile material and sources of ionizing radiation poses health, safety and environmental risks for very long time. “It is thus difficult to determine measures are necessary in order to protect generations adequately in the very remote and unpredictable future which Kenya as a developing country cannot cope and sustain,” he says.
Kenya in a bid to join the atomic energy user countries made its application to the international atomic energy agency and was approved. The government established nuclear electricity project committee which among other things is mandated to undertake extensive public awareness programs, review the energy policy to incorporate nuclear energy as one of the sources in the country.
This team was allocated $3 million (Sh252 million) for it to undertake its operations. And now Kitur is saying that the committee has embarked on the project without informing the public on the status and nature of undertakings. “No information so far has been forthcoming to the public from the committee. Information from the committee or the ministry is not available to the public.”
Kitur also argues that the current power supply in Kenya by other sources including hydro, thermal and wind are able to sustain the demand. He also says the United Nations Environmental Programme cautioned Kenya against the establishment of nuclear power plant since it has other sustainable sources of energy that can meet her needs.
And as a result he wants the court to direct the government to pursue clean, renewable source of energy due to grave risk of nuclear disaster and environment impacts of nuclear energy production, waste management. Also sought is a declaration that the plan to establish nuclear power plant is not properly informed and its ill timed. www.the-star.co.ke/national/national/89118-plans-to-establish-nuclear-power-plant-challenged
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Post by kasuku on Aug 12, 2012 17:14:46 GMT 3
GO! Ngilu! Go! wamama
Kitui is the most - Raw material wise- richest county in Kenya. But if they let coal be plaudert by greedy people it will become a ghost county in a short time
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Post by podp on Aug 13, 2012 12:38:51 GMT 3
More from the Toboa Ukweli folks: More on the Rot in the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project By the Toboa Ukweli teamThe mismanagement of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project, with the controversial George Ochilo Ayako at the helm as the Executive Chairman threatens to scuttle the international goodwill that Kenya has enjoyed from such key partners as the International Atomic Energy Agency. By banishing David Otwoma, the nuclear scientist seconded by the Public Service Commission to serve as Secretary to the Nuclear Electricity Project’s board, Mr. Ayako has effectively undermined the credibility of the KNEP in its attempts at resource mobilization. Below is an excerpt from an email dispatched from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency to officials of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project now working without the valuable and critical technical input from Mr. Otwoma: From: x.xxxxxx [mailtox.xxxxxx@iaea.org] Sent: 22 June 2012 04:28 To: Boniface Kinyanjui; Winnie Ndubai
Subject: Concept for 2014-2015
Boniface&Winnie,
This is to inform you that what you presented as a concept for 2014/2015 cycle could not measure up of what is expected. There is now a window for you to rework on your conceptand submit the same by next week otherwise there will be nothing for Nuclear power. It maybe worth while to consider consulting David Otwoma as he is familiar on what is expected and has been a valuable local and international expert nuclear project formulations.
What was event from what you presented is that you did not understand how to link your current project with the next. In other words you are not sure what do to next after this project!!
Please urgently revert back to me if you are determined to do so. x.xxxxxxx
And in a veiled reference to the continued marginalization of David Otwoma the same official sent the following email:
From: x.xxxxxx <x.xxxxxxi@iaea.org> Date: Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:05 PM Subject: RE: Concept for 2014-15 cycle: KEN2005 To: bwwekesa@xxx.xx Cc: bkkinyanjui@xxxx.xxx To: Boniface Wekesa Wanyama P.O. BOX 30623-00100, National Council for Science and Technology, NAIROBI,Kenya.
Please if possible advise the formulators of the next CPN on Nuclear Energy accordingly as per our excellent discussions. We will be in Kenya and will welcome more deliberations with all, especially the Kenyan experts who are highly regarded here but unfortunately you ar under utilizing them. Best regards, x.xxxxxx
Our sources inform us that absence of Mr. Otwoma from the day to day running of the Nuclear Electricity Project seems to have had a negative financial and monetary impact on the activities of the project. Of the allocated 200 Million last financial year (July 2011 to June 2012) a whopping 50 Million Kenya Shillings was taken back by Treasury presumably because the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project was unable to utilize this amount that had already been budgeted for before it was allocated. As you can see from the attached Excel file, more than half of the funds allocated for travel and training was spent by the Executive Chairman, raising audit concerns as these disbursements were not per the performance contract signed by the Secretary. Mr. Otwoma’s focus in requesting the money for travel and training was to have young, technical competent Kenyans with professional aspirations benefit from such support with the projected goal that after ten years it is this generation of Kenyans who would be in charge when the country was on the cusp of rolling out its nuclear program for peaceful economic activities. Other related audit queries had to do with the large expenditure used to pay the 13 Committee Members when they purported to meet (with some of these meetings totally outside the mandate of that committee). In a case of grand coalition collusion in corrupt and unethical activities, the minister for energy who is from the PNU side seems to be in cahoots with the Executive Chairman, a former cabinet minister and an insider in the ODM party. Information at our disposal indicates that the minister appears to have handpicked 12 people from his back yard, including a potential in law to be placed under questionable circumstances within the Nuclear Electricity Project. A spouse of a senior manager at a state corporation under the aegis of the same ministry is among those irregularly deployed. The wife of an assistant minister who is a close ally to the minister in question is part of that tally giving rise to questions of probity within the new constitutional dispensation. We know all these individuals by their full names and we have chosen to with hold their identities for now along with other sordid personal details not yet in the public domain. Of the 40 opportunities given to Kenyans to study for six weeks at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University earlier this year, only 27 Kenyans eventually went as the Chairman was reported to be demanding kick backs. KIRDI coughed 1,500,000 kshs to send two people, Kenya Bureau of Standards a similar amount to send a man with his wife; Kenya Power too to sent the afore said spouse of the senior manager together with one technically competent person; Radiation Protection Board only sent one person while the officer at the other end feigned illness at last moment to keep the cash; KenGen paid but gave the Chairman to use at his discretion so he pocketed half and paid for a lady he is supposed to be very close to.He also rewarded the Human Resource Manager and the Financial manager for being obedient by letting them also go for the course even though the trip was meant for technical staff connected to nuclear electricity project. Watch this space! Stay tuned for more! www.standardmedia.co.ke/index.php?articleID=2000063953&story_title=Editorial-Cartoon-13.08.2012so we can replace NOCK with Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project on the cartoon 'Pondium of Shame'
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Post by fyi on Aug 16, 2012 18:50:53 GMT 3
I thought by now the Prime Minister would have acted promptly. Reliable sources inform us that there is nothing going on in the pre feasibility study. the inept director of technical affairs is actually joining the premier league of the executive chairman in traveling all around the world and squandering tax payers money, which is meant to facilitate the pre feasibility studies. Reliable sources also inform us that He is actually taking occupancy of the office of the nobel peace prize winner, Dr. David Otwoma, even with the nobel certificate hung on the walls of the doctor's office. This is impunity. He is even being referred to as the Secretary of the project without vetting. Other directors and managers seem not to be happy with this but they fear the executive chairman's admonishment. He is currently in the US. As soon as he is back, he will be visiting other countries such as France, S.korea, Austria etc. the sources also tell us that the team leader has no idea of how the pre feasibility studies should be done. He is currently confused and frustrated. The team that is supposed to be doing the studies are not receiving the facilitation needed because the money is being wired to the heavy allowances of Ochilo Ayacko and the Director of Technical Affairs. The assessors are not being paid their peanut allowances, why? all the money is being wired to the same allowances. Meanwhile, if you look at the draft energy bill, the said nuclear electricity corporation (was to be a board), has the CEO double up as the chair of the board. This is ridiculous. The secretary should either be a lawyer (where in the world), an engineer (what kind of engineer? crop engineer?, biometric engineer? crap), or any other nuclear related discipline-vague. this is just meant to suit their backgrounds. the acting secretary (the said director) who is also the chairman's tribesman wants to take over. So these guys from the same tribe as the prime minister want to take over everything in the project. Is this their time to eat? The PM knows everything. Yet you tell me He is a reformist..this is crap. The PM IS NOT A REFORMIST. They have shouldered the reformist, Nobel peace laureate, Dr. Otwoma, because they want to eat. And they are eating. Now they are under-utilizing him according to the above email. This is a shame. There is no Nuclear Electricity Project..This is an 'its our time to eat project'
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Post by podp on Aug 20, 2012 11:08:27 GMT 3
Despite the governance challenges outlined in what is happening at Nuclear Electricity Project in particular and Ministry of Energy in general Kenya will have to burn oil/gas, coal and go nuclear to meet the above 42,000 MW of electricity required by 2030. Or we shall remain cave men going on each other with machetes every 5 years. Below are snippets from 'Proposals for the incoming Government.' by Kenya Association of Manufacturers. Priority challenges for the next governments 1. Energy Security: Provision of aff ordable and suffi cient, reliable and clean energy to power industry and ensure energy supply security, quality and aff ordability. www.kam.co.ke/attachments/article/244/KAM%20Industrial%20Business%20Agenda.pdfIn Kenya, over 60% of generated energy into the national grid is used in manufacturing enterprises. Kenya currently generates about 1,400 MW. Additional capacity in the pipeline could increase this by 500MW in the next 3 years if projects are implemented on time. But this is not enough. It is prudent therefore that any energy policies that are proposed must be aligned to the industrialization policies as well as Kenya’s Vision 2030 if we are ever to unlock our overdependence on imported goods. It is estimated that Flagship projects outlined in Vision 2030 will require an estimated 42,700 MW, meaning we need a lot of investment to be energy secure. Kenya needs to create new 41,300MW of energy by 2030. And we need to look at all new sources, Our recommendations therefore include: d) The government should also incentivize private sector investments in least cost energy sector geothermal and other renewable. Today the private sector accounts for 15 percent of the power supply. It can be increased. The country should enhance exploitation of geothermal, solar, wind and biomass resources to supply at least 5,200 MW for domestic and institutional energy requirements by 2030. My recommendation 47,000 MW = 10,000 MW (geothermal) + 5,000 MW (coal) + 10,000 MW (oil/gas) + 10,000 MW (nuclear) + 6,000 MW (wind) + 2,000 MW (solar) + 3,000 MW (hydro) + 1,000 MW (biomass) And that will only have Kenya a middle level economy i.e. where South Africa is now! With apartheid reloaded! Can't we aim higher? Above 50,000 MW?
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Post by kasuku on Aug 20, 2012 18:01:58 GMT 3
If Germany can reach a new peak in solar energy in june 2012. “The solar panels between Flensburg and Berchtesgaden under largely clear skies have for the first time provided a total capacity of more than 20,000 megawatts”.
According to the International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies (IWR), that’s the equivalent of the output of more than 20 nuclear power plants.
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If Germany can make 20,000 megawatts of solar energy a day, Why wouldn’t Kenya build Nuclear power plants to get only 10,000 MW, when the dangers of such a plant is even uncontrollable in developed worlds who can’t control the unknown natural catastrophes.
podp, the nuclear plants being discussed for Kenya won’t be a Kenyan industry, but a foreign one: Foreigners who will use our land to make huge money and leave the poison on our grounds without care as they don’t leave there.
They won’t bother too much with keeping the waste from poisoning the mwananchi as it will cost a lot of money to safely deposit it.
They know that they will have a timeline of, let’s say 20 years to recover their investments and make profit probably without paying tax and milking the taxpayer dry at the same time. What is there for the country if we will not profit from that monster Plant? What will we do with it when the foreigners hand it back to the government?
Nuclear power plant era is over, but those who run them are looking for banana industries to make profits.
The Green renewable energies (Sun, Wind and oceanic) cost nothing and a country like Kenya can live very well from it without needing nuke.
The development is still growing. Meanwhile you can produce Gas from Solar and wind energy, which can be stored and reproduced to power again in the night or when there is less wind and sun. There is no way we can ignore solar energy anymore. It’s time a lobby comes out to fight this Nuke nonsense.
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