{"id":132519,"date":"2022-05-05T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T10:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/young-people-are-key-to-creating-an-environment-of-peace-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:51:54","slug":"fmo-visited-communities-in-sendou-bargny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/fr\/fmo-visited-communities-in-sendou-bargny\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal impacted communities in Bargny say no to FMO and call for a just transition to renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 27th, our partners in Sendou\/Bargny reiterated their opposition to the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank (FMO), one of the financiers of the controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/bargnyproject.com\/en\">coal power plant project in Senegal<\/a>. The other financing partners are the African Development Bank (AFDB), the West-African Development Bank (BOAD), and the Banking Company of West Africa (CBAO).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-132522 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/afrika-vuka\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/05\/Picture4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2022\/05\/Picture4.jpg 353w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2022\/05\/Picture4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2022\/05\/Picture4-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting in 2014, the project has stood still for almost two years due to an irreconcilable shareholder conflict. Under a new ownership structure, the commercial operation date was reached in October 2018, unfortunately, the plant experienced technical difficulties and operated intermittently only for a few weeks in the first half of 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-132521 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/afrika-vuka\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/05\/Picture5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2022\/05\/Picture5.jpg 371w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2022\/05\/Picture5-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2022\/05\/Picture5-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In December 2019, the government through the Minister of Environment announced to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=08ZO67f57-g&amp;t=2104s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">change the coal power plant into a gas power plant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> but the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bargnyproject.com\/en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">coal impacted communities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are afraid of suffering the same consequences and they are calling for a just transition to renewable energy. You can help them by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fr.afrikavuka.org\/avcaravan-bargny\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tweeting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> their demands to call President Macky Sall to stop the Sendou\/Bargny coal plant project and put Senegal on the track of 100% renewables instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-132523 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/afrika-vuka\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/05\/Picture6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2022\/05\/Picture6.jpg 273w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2022\/05\/Picture6-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>By Daouda Gueye, R\u00e9seau des Associations pour la Protection de l\u2019Environnement (RAPEN)<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 27th, our partners in Sendou\/Bargny reiterated their opposition to the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank (FMO), one of the financiers of the controversial coal power plant project in Senegal.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":132521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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