$7,000,000,000.00 should have brought quite a few generators or aaa batteries. There are quite a few criminals and corrupt individuals around...apparently.
Well, other than the U.S. tax payer, but screw those guys.
Or did they ever say that in the first place?
But Hillary can install 500 million solar panels.
Someone I know who has worked on utilities projects on the continent of Africa has told me that as fast as they can erect poles and cable each day, the next moring the poles and cable are stolen without a trace. Local police to guard the projects only seem to make it worse. If they work round the clock, the section out of view, say two miles back will be gone.
I thought his half brother still lived in a mud hut with no electricity or water? ( assumed the poverty of hs relatives was why the Won skipped a home visit and the photo ops that would have shown his failure to help his own “ family”)
That was nothing- wait until the African potentates start getting checks from the UN ( actually the US taxpayers) in the name of climate change reparations.....
What makes the author think it was such an abject failure? Weren't their cronies in the green energy businesses enriched?
They failed because Kenyans are siphoning off the oil from transformers and selling to street vendors to use as cooking oil... It lasts longer than regular oil.
Kenyan power companies have been facing difficulties keeping the lights on even in areas that are connected to the electrical grid, as vandals have reportedly been stealing oil from electrical transformers to sell to chefs as cooking oil.
According to Yahoo News, electrical transformers are no great difficulty for determined thieves, who are willing to climb 20-foot poles to get to the transformers and siphon off the oil that powers them. They can then sell the oil for about $12 per liter to chefs at cooking stands who use it to fry food. The oil reportedly looks just like regular cooking oil, but it lasts much longer. It is not exactly edible, though, as the transformer oil contains toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which have been illegal in the U.S. since 1979. But still, chefs are using the stolen oil to make chips and other fried foods.
Dr. Esther Maina, a biochemist at Nairobi University, told Yahoo News that, “Consumption of PCB-laden chips poses a health risk to Kenyans in a country where health services are already underfunded and doctors are in short supply.”
At a loss for a way to combat the problem, Kenya Power is reportedly considering switching to transformers that don’t use oil. The oil-free transformers are much more expensive, but might last longer if no one is trying to pry them off poles to get at their oil.
http://www.thedailymeal.com/thieves-kenya-steal-electrical-transformer-oil-cooking/122814
Well, sure it failed miserably if you were expecting some results for spending seven billion dollars.
Let’s use a different metric. Let’s look at how happy this made Chris Matthews. We’ll call it the See How It Tingles scale.
So, on the SH*IT scale, how tingly did Chris Matthews get over this program?
I think Chris would get really tingly over this. I think it would be running down his leg....the tingles, not the SH*IT. Though that does happen at times.
So, always remember, when Obama does some stupid crap (and that’s an hourly phenomenon) bring it over to the Chris Matthews See How It Tingles scale and see just how much SH*IT Obama has put out this time.
If there’s a big pile by the shoe of Chris Matthews, then you know it was a good one.
“Even after the households in our study had paid in full for their electricity connections, it took seven months on average for electricity to flow for the first time. Once connected, households experience regular blackouts — sometimes lasting days or weeks — due to a shortage of maintenance staff and materials.”
Yes, billions of American tax dollars wasted in another African boondoggle to make the share the wealth crowd feel good about themselves. And the result? Another colossal failure. After all, it is Africa.
Copper thieves are not mentioned.
I've no doubt there will be failure and waste but it's just lazy reporting to attribute longstanding problems to this effort.
And the grassroots soldiers on: http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=96827
Nothing quite like shoveling billions into ooga booga kleptocracies to advance the agenda, eh?
Kenya’s a corrupt African country. I’m sure some people associated with the project made out like bandits....