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Samuel Ndunda aims at Indian house crows at Serena Beach Hotel, Mombasa. INSET: Indian house crows search for food. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
At Serena Beach Hotel and Spa in north Coast, we find Samuel Ndunda, 52, armed with a catapult to scare away birds.
Ndunda is among three people employed solely to scare away Indian house crows, a preying bird that wreaks havoc at the Coast.
The workers chase the black and grey necked birds that hover around the hotel lawn looking for food.
“They are a real nuisance. They grab food from plates. They excrete all over as they fly from one spot to another,” he said.
High-End Hotel Shut Down by NEMA
National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) Green Point office in Isiolo.
National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) has shut down a posh hotel in Nanyuki for failing to acquire an effluent discharge certificate, a mandatory environmental license.
The hotel, which is located at the foothills of Mount Kenya, Nanyuki, moved to court seeking to bar the agency from arresting or preferring criminal charges against the hotel, its agents, or employees over the issue.
However, the hotel suffered a blow in court after Justice Mary Oundo ruled that the hotel had prematurely moved forward with the judicial review, subverting provisions of the Environment Management and Coordination Act (EMCA) and the Fair Administrative Action Act.
SEZ one-stop clearance shops plan suffers hitch
Wednesday December 16 2020
By JOHN MUTUA
Summary
Parliament said that the Ministry of Trade did not show proof that it carried out public participation on the regulations that provided for the establishment of the one-stop shops under the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Regulations 2020.
Kenya’s bid to woo investors through one-stop shops for clearing foreign and local investors at special economic zones (SEZs) has suffered a hitch after Parliament shot down the regulations.
Parliament said that the Ministry of Trade did not show proof that it carried out public participation on the regulations that provided for the establishment of the one-stop shops under the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Regulations 2020.
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Sunday December 13 2020
Civil society activists visit an oil well in Bunyoro sub-region recently. Tilenga Oil Project which is being implemented in Buliisa and Nwoya districts faces numerous hurdles ranging from legal suits, contestations from locals to environmental concerns. PHOTO | FRANCIS MUGERWA
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Uganda’s multi-million dollar Tilenga Oil Project which is being implemented in Buliisa and Nwoya districts faces numerous hurdles ranging from legal suits, contestation from locals to environmental concerns.
Under the project, government plans to build a central processing facility (CPF) with capacity to process 190,000 barrels of oil and 700,000 barrels of total liquid per day.
The project entails drilling 200 water injector wells, 196 oil producer wells, two polymer pilot wells and 28 reference wells which will be drilled on 31 well-pads.