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On sustainability, think about trees and water pipes Thursday May 13 2021 Summary Circular economy and sustainability are buzzwords synonymous with globetrotting NGO executives and professors whose high sounding lectures saturate the atmosphere in the ivory towers that are the world’s institutions of higher learning. Recurring hunger in many parts of the developing world, water stress, unpredictable rainfall patterns, loss of biodiversity and threats posed by climate change are forcing governments to rethink policies. Circular economy and sustainability are buzzwords synonymous with globetr...

THE STANDARD By Peter Theuri | March 11th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Residents of Mukinyai Village by the sides of a deep pool at a quarry where three children aged 15 and below from one family drowned in on December 12, 2020. [Photo: Kennedy Gachuhi, Standard] Human beings blast their way into the earth’s crust to look for minerals with an aim of making a fortune and living comfortable lives. But sometimes, the earth is not too friendly to those who seek its precious resources. Instances of mines collapsing and burying treasure hunters inside them are not rare. Other times, the miners, a...

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 ho...

Blow for Nanyuki hotel in licence row with Nema Thursday January 14 2021 By JOSEPH WANGUI Summary The hotel, Misty Mountain Lodge at the foothills of Mount Kenya, also wanted the court to restrain Nema from arresting or preferring any criminal proceedings against it, its agents, servants or employees over the issue. But Justice Mary Oundo ruled that the hotel initiated the judicial review proceedings prematurely and in violation of the provisions of the Environment Management and Coordination Act (EMCA) and the Fair Administrative Action Act. A holiday hotel in Nanyuki has lost its bid to sto...

THE STANDARD By Peter Theuri | January 14th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 A residential building near Nairobi Dam that was earmarked for demolition in 2018. [File, Standard]   In 2018, numerous house owners in Nairobi were sweating over the possibility of their property being demolished. A report by the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) dated June 26, 2018 said the government had earmarked buildings sitting on riparian land, which were to be flattened. Authorities warned that the crackdown would affect about 4,000 buildings that were deemed to interfere with the hydrological an...