[Stoves] News: Nigeria cookstoves project

Thu Feb 16 13:43:12 CST 2017

Teddy:

N464 was around $3 when the project was announced, and that might have been
just "all in" price for bulk delivery of the "clean stoves" by the
contractor for stoves supplies. I don't know if they were supposed to be
given away at that price to final consumers. The supplier may be innocent,
i.e., may not be in a position to meet the contract conditions.

That's what happens when prices and exchange rates change, outrageous
promises are made, procurement bids are foolishly written and contracts
written improperly. Any or all of such factors, and I am sure not rare in
the world of "improved stoves" public procurement. Someone on the list can
fill us in on the horror stories from other countries.

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But rest assured, once ISO TC-285 gives us a list of Tier 4 stoves and
manufacturers, a brigade of implementation science experts at GACC, NIH,
CDC, 10 universities, Global LPG Partnership, and some think-tank, is ready
to roll and meet the SDG targets. See Implementation Science to Accelerate
Clean Cooking for Public Health <https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/ehp1018/>.

They suggest that "*near exclusive, community-wide use of clean fuels is
needed to meet the PM2.5 guideline and to maximize health benefits (Johnson
and Chiang 2015)*" and speak of ".*.choosing among clean fuels or
combinations (e.g., LPG, biogas, alcohol, electricity, solar, tier 4 indoor
emissions biomass stoves) and technologies that represent the best option
for any given setting.*."

What indoor emission regulations for cookstoves may be enforced to achieve
compliance with daily average exposure guideline for ALL PM2.5 is anybody's
guess. (GACC and WHO only speak of "clean" cookstoves, not clean air,
indoor or outdoor.)

But members of this list may say goodbye to solid biomass stoves that fall
below Tier 4. WHO's "Interim Targets" in the 2014 Indoor Air Quality
Guidelines: Household Fuel Combustion were a red herring, a ruse.

The WHO 2014 Interim Target for PM2.5 fell around Tier 3 of 2012 IWA, which
in turn was generated on the basis of VITA WBT 4.1.2 and some air volume
and flow model, referenced only in the EPA then-pending work on new
residential wood heaters in the US. How EPA's "box model" there got
transmuted into some indoor air circulation model for cookstoves in
developing countries is a mystery.)

Obviously these expers are clearly biased toward LPG, biogas, alcohol,
electricity, solar until Tier 4 stoves come up. (Don't be fooled by
"technologies that represent the best option for any given setting"; they
have shown no interest yet in defining a "setting",.)

ISO is nowhere near done yet but do you see a progression here? From 2012
to 2014 to 2016? At this rate by 2018 all implementation scientists will
declare that no solid fuels can save lives. In obedience to Kirk Smith, who
claims there is as yet no "truly health protective" stove using biomass, no
matter what the baseline or projected baseline of air quality, nutritional
and health status, fuel chemistry. (I disagree with him on this point.)

Nigeria redux. Haiti redux. India redux. Stories of stoves.

Nikhil

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Nikhil,
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> Thanks, I saw this the other day (they keep a good social media account at
> https://twitter.com/4lowthemoney?lang=en) am I right to understand that
> the unit cost of each stove is about a dollar and half?* ''**the contract
> was at a unit cost of N464.00'' *wow!
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> Thanks for sharing, hope allswell in your neck of the woods.
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> Teddy
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> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Teddy:
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>> I see you raised some concern about a Nigeria project back in 2015. Here
>> something more:
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>> Reps to investigate Jonathan’s N9 billion ‘Clean Stove Project’
>> <http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/221460-reps-investigate-jonathans-n9-billion-clean-stove-project.html> Premium
>> Times, 24 January 2017.
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>> Says, "contract for the supply of 20 million units of clean stove and
>> wonder bags under the clean stove scheme for rural women. .. the
>> contract was at a unit cost of N464.00, amounting to about N9.287 billion."
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>> At the then-exchange rate, that was around US$60 m.
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>> Seems as if the allegation is that only 750,000 stoves were delivered for
>> distribution, not that all $60 m went missing.
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>> It is noteworthy, though, that "The committees would also determine
>> whether or not the clean stoves and wonder bags project had assisted in
>> eradicating desertification in Nigeria."
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>> Fat promises? Irrational exuberance is an old disease of the "stove
>> sector". Another example - Partnership Cooks Up New Solution to Poverty
>> and Climate Change
>> <http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/partnership-cooks-up-new-solution-to-poverty-and-climate-change-116779303.html> 23
>> Feb 2011. Envirofit claimed, "Clean cookstoves are the most viable
>> solution to Indoor Air Pollution (IAP), the toxic smoke that claims one
>> life every 16 seconds in the developing world. The partners aim to deliver
>> two million improved cookstoves to Nigerian households over the next seven
>> years."
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>> It's nearly six years into that seven-year dream, but I don't see
>> anything on Envirofit website about Nigeria sales, just an office address.
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>> So much for the carbon credit gung ho-ism of C-Quest Capital.
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>> Nigeria is a "Focus Country" for GACC, whose Nigeria webpage
>> <http://cleancookstoves.org/country-profiles/focus-countries/3-nigeria.html> shows activities
>> so far limited to small grants.
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>> Follow-the-Money has a new audio post on Facebook -
>> https://soundcloud.com/follow-the-money-129876762/followthem
>> oney-discusses-women-cookstoves.
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>> Naira devaluation has changed cooking economics suddenly
>> http://tribuneonlineng.com/residents-stop-cooking-g
>> as-resort-coal-stoves-kano/
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>> Nikhil
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>> *From: *Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com>
>>> *Sent: *Thursday, June 4, 2015 13:03
>>> *To: *Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
>>> *Reply To: *Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
>>> *Subject: *Re: [Stoves] Regenerative Capitalism (Jock Gill)
>>>
>>> By the way have any of you been following the progress of the 9.2billion
>>> Nira stove distribution project that is ongoing in Nigeria - (some amazing
>>> photos here from this excellent NGO (Aptly named 'Follow the Money' -
>>> https://www.facebook.com/followthemoneyng).
>>>
>>> It seems to be generating quite alot of controversy -
>>>  http://www.punchng.com/opinion/the-fraud-called-clean-cookstoves/
>>> <http://www.punchng.com/opinion/the-fraud-called-clean-cookstoves/> and
>>> also Nigeria: How Graft Stalled Distribution of N9.3 Billion Clean Cook
>>> Stoves <http://allafrica.com/stories/201505201261.html> about why, how
>>> and which stoves will be distributed.
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>>> It seems that in this case the voices of 750,000 cooks are not as well
>>> heard as the voice of a certain Mrs Lawrencia Laraba-Mallam
>>> (Min. Environment).
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where all this cash came from?
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>>> Best regards,
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>>> Teddy
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