EL Molo: The Last People of The Lake
Green energy projects are threatening the livelihoods of communities on the shores of Lake Turkana, as local communities are being dispossessed of their land due to the expanding wind farm.
Around the world, indigenous communities continue to battle for their rights. Whilst land dispossesion has occured for centuries in the name of deforestation, mining, and other resource extraction, the push for renewable energies has led to the continuation of an old injustice under the guise of a new system…
This participatory video shares the struggle of Indigenous communities in Kenya coping with the effects of an underway project taking advantage of the abundance of renewable energy sources in the region: Africa's largest wind farm.
The aim is to raise the alarm to global actors and green energy donors and a call to action to support the El-Molo community in protecting their lands from the profits of one of the world's largest renewable energy projects.
If the transition to renewable energy is not a just transition, then it’s no transition at all but rather a continuation of exploitative systems.
Read more on the struggle between indigenous land rights and renewable energy infrastructures in our article here.
Learn more about Renewable Energy Projects and the Rights of Marginalised/Indigenous Communities in Kenya through the IWGIA report.
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