Petitions

R.E: Petition to the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development to protect artisanal salt miners being displaced from Lake Katwe

Greetings from Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) and over 5,000 artisanal salt miners including women, youth, the elderly and others who work at Lake Katwe in Kasese district.

AFIEGO is a registered public policy research and advocacy organisation one of whose main objectives is to promote environmental conservation and community rights in the extractives sector.

The over 5,000 Katwe artisanal salt miners that are co-signatory to this letter live in Katwe-Kabatoro Town Council in Kasese district. They make a living through sustainably mining for salt from Lake Katwe.

Total, CNOOC and others’ activities under the Tilenga, Kingfisher and EACOP oil projects are gravely impacting or stand to gravely impact food security, water access, biodiversity and environmental conservation, tourism, fisheries and other income-generating activities.

The mitigation measures that Total and CNOOC have provided under the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) reports for the above projects are inadequate. Moreover, we know that in Africa, oil companies rarely implement their proposed mitigation measures. Instead,they engage in the worst environmental and human rights abuses.

PETITION TO THE MINISTER OF ENERGY TO DESIST FROM LICENCING OUT
NGAJI OIL BLOCK IN THE SECOND LICENCING ROUND DUE IN MAY 2019

On April 26, 2019, the coalition bringing together civil society organisations (CSOs) and members
of Kasese women and youth clean energy clubs held a meeting at the office of Africa Institute for
Energy Governance (AFIEGO) in Kasese.

The objective of the meeting was to discuss the fact that the Minister of Energy and Mineral
Development, Hon. Irene Muloni, informed the country that Uganda will launch a second licensing
round for oil blocks on May 8, 2019.