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Delbi Coal Mining Share Company, the only commercial producer of coal in Ethiopia, plans to extract up to 30 thousand tons from now through February 8, 2012 at an open pit mining field in Delbi area of Dedo Woreda in Jimma zone, about 400Km south west of Addis Ababa.
According to sources, it eventually plans to produce 200 thousand tons of coal annually. The company has extracted and sold more than 46 thousand tons since it began operating.
Preparation for the mining project is already underway, since the company purchased 39.2sqm of land for mineral exploration in May 2008.
The open pit mining will extract Sub-Bituminous Bitumen coal. They are also looking at other potential types of coal that could be obtained by mining underground.
According to the source, the company currently produces 4000 K Cal/Kg of crude (raw) coal but has plans in the future to refine it and go as far as 5000 K Cal/Kg and above.
Even though mining has short term consequences for the environment, the company has formed a conservation and safety section to study the impacts and report the effects to the Environment and Community Development unit at the Ministry of Mines.
Delbi Coal Mining has 55 employees out of which 22 are permanent. It supplies its coal to textile factories like Turkish owned Ayka Addis. Cement factories like Mesebo and Hung Shen in Modjo city. It also supplies to Tabor Ceramics Company and Ethio Bricks Company.
There are currently 17 foreign and local companies engaged in the exploration and surveying of coal in Ethiopia, although Delbi is the only one so far that has begun producing coal commercially.
The state owned Ethiopian Metal and Engineering Corporation has plans to undertake the construction of a fertilizer manufacturing plant that could also include coal use for electricity. It is expected to open at Yayu Wereda, Illubabor zone of the Oromia Regional State 600Km west of Addis Ababa.
According to the feasibility study undertaken by the China National Complete Plant Import and Export Corporation, COMPLANT, at a cost of 12 million birr, it is estimated that there exists over 100 million tons of coal in the Yayu area and this potential reserve can provide 300,000 tons of Urea, 20,000 tons of ethanol and 90MW of electric power annually. This would cost close to 730 million dollars based on the study period, which was 2008.
According to sources at the corporation, Delbi Coal Mining Share Company was formed initially as a Private Limited Company with 100 thousand birr capital and has since changed into a Share Company and its capital reached about 60 million birr.
It currently has six individual and company shareholders with Messebo Cement Factory being the largest. Ezana mining PLC and Oromia Agro-Processing and Industrial Group are the corporate shareholders.
The Ministry of Mines has so far granted 205 licenses to over 108 companies of which 159 are exploration licenses; 111 are foreign, 41 are joint ventures, and seven are local companies.
Among the 205 licenses are also 43 mining licenses, 21 of which are foreign 16 are joint venture and six are locally owned.
In the previous fiscal year Ethiopia earned about USD 500 million of revenue from the export of minerals.
Coal consists of carbonized vegetable matter, with four levels of quality; Peat, Lignite, Bituminous and Anthracite. The highest quality is Anthracite, which is measured in calories per kilogram.
While waiting in a long line for the taxi, I began reading a thick book when I noticed people staring at me. This is likely because we are not used to seeing people read anymore. In cafes you will see people staring at their phones or endlessly stirring your tea instead of reading. You may see people reading newspapers in the morning but only sporadically. How can we get more people interested in reading when, as I argued in my column last week schools are failing to promote reading and we do not see many local leaders and celebrities doing the same? There have been some literary successes, Teddy Afro recently used a book as inspiration for one of his popular songs and a recent banned historical book caused a buzz but there hasn’t been consistent evidence of reading culture in Ethiopia. Most contemporary Ethiopian writers are not able to make a living from their publications due to falling readership. We must figure out how to solve this problem for the next generation.
In a long line waiting for a taxi I was reading a thick book. Many people both in the line and walking by the road till the cows get home were gazing at me. It is not very common to read at such places in Ethiopia as far as my knowledge is concerned. One might ask why but they wouldn’t get a satisfactory answer to such a rhetorical question.
The actual answer lies in the hearts of every one of us. It is because we are not accustomed to reading at any place which is suitable to do so.
In café’s you will see more people repeatedly stirring their tea than reading. What would it take for them to spend half the time they take stirring their tea to read?
In the morning I see people reading magazines and newspapers but only sporadically. Can we say that is a reading culture? The answer for me is a litigious yes and no. Yes because they are at least reading something as time expenditure. However, you can predict that some of them are cornered to some specific newspaper or columns or when there is an issue that concerns them. Reading newspapers and magazines occasionally does not make one an ardent reader. We cannot dare say letter readers are readers. Memo readers are not readers. The ability to read doesn’t lead to a culture of reading although it is better than being illiterate.
Where shall we start nurturing reading culture? The journey of reading should start at home and then at school. In the last society piece I wrote for Capital I stated that most schools are failing to develop a culture of reading. How many of our teachers read books other than text books? How many of our students read? How many of our writers read other literary works? Do our journalists read? Do our celebrities ? How about our leaders and politicians? Parents? Sisters? Brothers? The list goes on.
Most of us here in Ethiopia, I observe, do not have a regular reading habit except reading social media articles and columns of some periodicals.
When the late Abraham Reta Alemu, a journalist and writer best known for his huge book collection, passed away an Amharic weekly said “a living library has burnt”. Prolific writer Baalu Girma. was an avid reader and this inspired many of his protagonists.
One of Baalu’s books Oromay was widely read when it was published but it was banned immediately. Surprisingly however, people continued to read at the expense of risking their lives. Another recent book was temporarily banned which only helped increase its readership and revenueDr.Fikre Tolossa`s book about the origin of the Oromo and AmharaThe young writer, Yismaeka Worku`s as well had a lot of readers when he published his novel Dertogada which was also translated into English. All three of these examples show that people will read when given a reason but motivating them to continue reading is challenging. Other books have not seen the same success.
From another angle it has been over sixty years since the prolific writer Haddis Alemayehu published Fikr Eske Mekabir. It has many readers from its first publishing to now. But a song by the vocalist Tewodros Kassahun this year swept the shelves of book stores because he included the characters in the song. Where have these readers been? Are they reading for the sake of reading or reading for the sake of the song?
The falling number of readers has led may contemporary writers to publish only a few copies of their books.
Reading newspapers and magazines alone can`t be a pillar for a visible reading culture. Reading books that are the flavor of the day is not a reading culture. Reading a “banned” book is not an indication of the existence of reading culture.
We need to do whatever it takes to develop a reading culture in Ethiopia for the sake of the next generation.
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