Thursday, August 11, 2016 11:21:14 AM
Efforts by local firms to block oil exploration in six wells in Northern Kenya have failed.
It has emerged that the case, which had been filed by Interstate Petroleum Company, seeking to quash oil exploration permit for block 10BA, 10BB, 11A, 11B, 12A and 13T will now not proceed. The permit had been issued by the Energy ministry.
The Court of Appeal in its verdict noted the firm had filed a similar case, which had been dismissed by the High Court.
Intestate had filed a Judicial Review case on December 16, 2010 before Justice Martha Koome, claiming that the Energy Permanent Secretary used the information given to him to issue permits to other firms, thus denying them an opportunity to explore oil.
The court heard that Intestate found some substance, believed to be oil in the process of drilling water in Turkana. But the judge dismissed the case.
Another case was subsequently filed by Moses Kengara and Edward Onyancha, and this time the complaint was that the PS and the firms that had been given the permit had defrauded and expropriated Intestate’s secrets contained in the chemical analysis report founded on oil samples within the six blocks.
This time the High Court, on March 5, 2013, allowed the two to proceed with the case, which sparked an appeal filed by Africa Oil Turkana Ltd (previously Turkana Drilling Consortium Ltd), Africa Oil Corporation and Africa Oil Kenya BV (previously Lundin Kenya B.V).
In the appeal, Judges Festus Azangalala, Gatembu Kairu and Agnes Murgor ruled that filing another suit was an abuse of the court process.
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Firm loses bid to block oil exploration in six wells
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