By Samantha Luseno, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Engagement Officer Published in The Standard Newspaper on 4th December 2020 Mining activities while extremely lucrative for mining companies and investors alike, predominantly take place in drought prone areas and could have devastating…
By Samantha Luseno, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Engagement Officer, KCSPOG Published in the Standard Newspaper on 20th November 2020 An often-forgotten link is the role that water plays in the attainment of current and future energy sector development goals. Globally,…
By Samantha Luseno, Resource Mobilization and Partnership Engagement Officer-KCSPOG Published in the Standard Newspaper on Friday 13th November 2020 Since the discovery of commercially viable oil reserves in Turkana County the government through the implementing entities have adapted to mitigate…
By Samantha Luseno-Resource Mobilization and Partnership Engagement Officer Published on Standard Newspaper on 2nd October 2020 In 2012, post discovery of oil in Kenya, famous cartoonist GADO published a cartoon in one of the daily’s with the Mwananchi in Turkana…
By Samantha Luseno, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Engagement Officer Oil and gas was discovered in South Lokichar, Turkana-Kenya in 2012, with the immediate promise of contribution to the national economy. Estimates in 2019 put projected revenue for the sector at…
By Charles Wanguhu, Platform Coordinator Kenya’s Oil and Gas sector has been dealt its fair share of blows. Crude oil prices dropped to a record low, as a result of decreased demand occasioned by COVID-19 mitigation measures. In addition, due…
Ms Blessing Hungwe an Artisanal Miner from Zimbabwe making a presentation at the Investing in African Mining Indaba on behalf of the Alternative Mining Indaba. Image courtesy of Mining Indaba In February 2020 Oil, gas and mining African government ministers,…
Differing views on the route the crude oil export pipeline from South Lokichar in northwestern Kenya to the Indian Ocean shoreline should take, could strain relations between the government, Total and other partners…..Continue reading→
KCSPOG is pleased to announce that we are now the Publish What You Pay Kenya Coalition. We are now part of an illustrious family of transparency fighters, united in their quest for an open and accountable extractive sector through campaigns,…
We the Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas having reviewed the state of development of the country’s emerging oil and gas industry, having understood the benefits and dangers that come with oil and gas production, aware that the country’s preparedness…