The Lamu port is part of an ambitious transport corridor with the aim of integrating marginalised northern Kenya into the Kenyan economy and the nation.
The coal plant would be about 20km from Lamu town - a Unesco world heritage site.
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Amu Coal a Kenyan and Chinese consortium is set to build a coal plant in an area untouched by industrial development. The emissions alone will double the country’s energy sector’s CO2 emissions.
A proposed coal plant in Kenya would rely on imports for up to 10 years.
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