Environmental Activists in Kenya Concerned over Billionaire's Planned Oil Refinery
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Will Kenya become Africa's next major energy hub? Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is planning a huge refinery. It could change fuel supply, trade and economic growth.
Nigerian entrepreneur Aliko Dangote is planning to build a refinery in Kenya. Resistance is growing on Lamu.
Environmental activists in Kenya concerned over billionaire’s planned oil refinery
Billionaire Aliko Dangote's choice of Lamu, Kenya, for his oil refinery project, estimated to cost $17 billion, has elicited mixed reactions, with environmental activists warning of its potential risks to the local ecosystem and the community's livelihoods, while the government is playing up its economic benefits. The Nigerian business tycoon's decision to locate the refinery in Lamu, follows months of speculation about whether the project will …
The Nigerian oil magnate Aliko Dangote wants to build refineries across Africa. A few days ago, Kenya finalized an agreement with the Dangote Group to establish a mega-refinery on the Lamu archipelago. A UNESCO-listed site that local ecologists intend to defend.
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