Hi Artie,,,cant seem to open the link on the Kenyan post. Im trying to confirm that they are in hiding. The translation of your other post gives an interesting insight into some of the obstacles facing a resolution. Thanks for posting.
English translation;
When I was in Addis Ababa last week , I met some of Tullow Oil's employees at their office there. I asked, including how it went with drilling in northern Kenya, the area called Turkana . Tullow Oil cooperates with Lundin company Africa Oil and manages the actual drilling .
They sighed deeply when I asked the question . They explained that the locals put into huge problems. Every day, sat there a group of people - mostly men - and blocked the area where the drilling rig stands . I asked understood why.
They want the job , I was told . The majority of them can not read or write. They can not drive, do not operate your equipment , do not do any work that requires some form of training or education.
This reflects the situation they are in. Turkana is Kenya's perhaps most backward province in all respects. It 's dry , it's hot and the only thing that can survive there without modern conveniences are Turkana people. I became acquainted with them when I spent three weeks in Turkana in 2001 and made ??a film for SVT.
Turkana people are experts in survival, and to manage goats and camels. But unfortunately lacks virtually all the qualifications needed to work with oil exploration.
My informants at Tullow told that many of Turkana men were armed with spears and hand weapons. The geologist I spoke to said that it was only a matter of time before something serious happens.
On Saturday, October 26 , it happened . Around 2000 turkanamän invaded the drill site , destroyed the machinery and threatened Tullow's employees to life. The attackers were led by two Kenyan MPs from the region who probably saw a chance of scoring points in local people's eyes . " We support their struggle for the job ... "
Of the approximately 1,700 employees who worked there were nearly 900 local employees , employees with very basic operations , and in most cases as a pure gesture of goodwill towards them. But it was not enough for turkana activists . They demanded that all on-site would be from the district. All , all the way up to the highest responsible engineer .
Tullow has now suspended its exploration which obviously delays the Kenyan project by becoming an oil nation .
See this as a cautionary tale serves to balance the general demonization of oil companies in Africa.
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