Lamu, Kenya: Big Victory Keeping Coal in the Ground
7/2/19
ELAW Bulletin
ELAW Bulletin
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| Lamu, Kenya. Photo: Karl Ragnar Gjertsen, Wikimedia Commons |
We are thrilled to announce a major victory for communities and the global climate!
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| Lamu, Kenya. Photo: Karl Ragnar Gjertsen, Wikimedia Commons |
We are thrilled to announce a major victory for communities and the global climate!
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| Katiba Institute tweets today: "Our lawyers are meeting with the Lamu Community to explain the High Court Judgment on LAPSSET." See: @katibainstitute |
Mohamed Ali Baadi v. Attorney General, Petition No. 22 of 2012 (April 30, 2018)
High Court of Kenya at Malindi
This case arises out of the Lamu Port-South Sudan Ethiopia-Transport Corridor project (LAPSSET), a large-scale transportation and infrastructure scheme with many individual components, including a railway, oil pipelines, oil refineries, tourism development, and a 32-berth port at Manda Bay in Lamu, Kenya.
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| Community members protest proposed coal-fired power plant. Photo: www.savelamu.org |
Friends of Lake Turkana Trust v. Attorney General, ELC Suit No. 825 of 2012 (May 19, 2014)
Environment and Land Court (Nairobi)
