DRC natural resources press review of Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The Minister of Petroleum , Crispin Atama Tabe Mogodi , opened on Tuesday at the Centre for Social Action ( CEPAS ) in Gombe , Kinshasa , the training seminar on the gas in the Democratic Republic Congo for managers and experts of his ministry , informs the Congolese news Agency (ACP ) . Atama Minister invited the participants to take advantage of the 4 days of work , from 10 to 13 December 2013 , to find ways and means to enable the DRC to ensure exploration and also optimum utilization of gas, because our country is lagging behind in this area compared to other countries in the region and elsewhere in this matter. He hoped that this session will lead to a practical training focused on different issues to be addressed including: "exploitation of methane gas , lakes high in dissolved gas , degassing lakes Nyos in Cameroon and Monoun and as the solution for degassing the Gulf of Kabuno North Kivu , the gas distribution networks , monitoring of a lake and gas markets in the world and the opportunities for the DRC "

To end the deficit of electric power , the General of quarries and mines ( Gécamines ) will soon build their own power plant to Lwena 540 km northeast of Lubumbashi , announces Prosperité who said that the production project of electricity , according to studies, will produce 500 megawatts of coal -based , will be carried out on own funds of Gécamines .

Potentiel announces a standoff that has been initiated between the authorities of a department of the Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism and agro- environmental and rural civil society of Congo ( Socearuco ) on the organization of a national workshop NGO members of the World environment Fund ( gEF ) of the DRC. The newspaper said the standoff is due to the way in which Fem asked the Socearuco , National Focal Point Fem - Ong of this institution in the DRC, in collaboration with the operational focal point directed by an official of the Department of Ministry of the Environment does not want to hear about this workshop .