From b5145dfe88dfd5eb96b0b3522f3d32c8bd36cf87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lanny Forrest Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:11:03 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Add 'Kenyans Fear Dakatcha Woodlands Biofuel Expansion' --- ...ns-Fear-Dakatcha-Woodlands-Biofuel-Expansion.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Kenyans-Fear-Dakatcha-Woodlands-Biofuel-Expansion.md diff --git a/Kenyans-Fear-Dakatcha-Woodlands-Biofuel-Expansion.md b/Kenyans-Fear-Dakatcha-Woodlands-Biofuel-Expansion.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..11d1ecf --- /dev/null +++ b/Kenyans-Fear-Dakatcha-Woodlands-Biofuel-Expansion.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +
Kenyans fear Dakatcha Woodlands [biofuel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159346/mission-newenergy-delivers-maiden-biodiesel-production-to-global-oil-major-24476.html) growth
+
23 March 2011
+
By Will Ross
+
BBC News, Dakatcha
+
Being in the shade of a tree beside his thatched mud hut in in Kenya's Dakatcha Woodlands, Joshua Kahindi Pekeshe is bold.
+
"We are not going to let this land go even if it implies shedding blood," he informed the BBC.
+
"Land is extremely crucial to us. We farm and get our livelihood from it. On this land we bury our dead."
+
He is among the numerous people opposed to the creation of a large [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) plantation in the location, about an hour's drive inland from the coastal town of Malindi.
+
It is an arid location and home to some 20,000 individuals as well as internationally threatened animal and bird types.
+
Ambitious objectives
+
An Italian company has actually asked the authorities for permission to rent 50,000 hectares there to grow [jatropha curcas](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy), whose seeds are rich in oil that can be turned into bio-diesel.
+
This plant, originally from South America, has long been grown in Africa as a hedge to stay out animals - goats stay well away as it is [harmful](https://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/shares/asx-mbt/mission-newenergy-limited/share-price). The location affected is community land which is being kept in trust by the [local council](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb).
+
Kenya [jatropha curcas](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) Energy Ltd is 100%-owned by the Milan-based Nuove Iniziative Industriali SRL.
+
It has actually rented practically a million hectares in Africa \ No newline at end of file