MUKUNI villagers have consented to the relocation of the US$400 million 300 megawatt Thermal Power Station to be built by Kanona Energy. And Chief Mukuni’s Prime Minister (Mwendambeli) Patrick Malake has praised Kanona Energy for starting to improve the villages’ water reticulation system by sinking solar powered boreholes and erecting 60,000 liters of water tanks in several zones of the chiefdom. The Kanona Energy Thermal and Solar Energy Farm brings energy generation projects in Mukuni village to four, after the Chinese’s Guoli’s 270 mw Thermal, and Sinohydro’s 150mw Solar Energy Farm. Speaking at the Kanona Energy’s Environmental Scoping Meeting held at Simukale Shrine on Thursday, Airwaves Consultant’s Josephat Sichula said the project was previously assessed and approved, but due to...

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