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Title: | Lake Kivu's Methane Gas: Natural Risk, or Source of Energy and Political Security |
Author: | Doevenspeck, Martin |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Afrika Spectrum |
Volume: | 42 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 95-110 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) Rwanda |
Subjects: | natural gas energy policy lakes Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government |
Abstract: | This article examines methane gas extraction from Lake Kivu in the context of the sensitive geopolitical situation in the central African region. It first analyses the current energy crisis in Rwanda and the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as well as its political implications. Next, it sketches the origin of methane gas in Lake Kivu and the risks associated with the presence of dissolved gases in water, as illustrated by the deadly gas outburst of Lake Nyos in Cameroon in 1986. A description of current methane gas extraction projects in Rwanda and international initiatives promoting common energy projects in the Great Lakes Region, is followed by a discussion of the potentials, problems and risks of methane gas exploitation in a postcolonial environment. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |