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Article: Kenya: 'Green' Bamburi to switch to biomass energy.
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- March 20, 2008
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Byline: Mamta03
Bamburi Cement Group is turning to biomass to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The cement maker, one of the largest consumers of energy in the region, says it will cut emissions in Kenya and Uganda by 132,000 tonnes by 2010, through the use of biomass from coffee, rice and coconut husks to fire its kilns.
Bernard Osawa, the group s business manager in charge of alternative fuels, says this will be achieved through greater use of biomass instead of coal to fire kilns used in breaking down limestone during the cement-making process.
The biomass will include wood from the company s own plantations as well as coffee, rice ...