Kelp Blue receives green light from EIA for giant kelp farm in Namibia
The Dutch aquaculture company Kelp Blue, founded in 2020 by Daniel Hooft, received the green light last week from the Namibian Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) agency for its giant kelp mega-farm project off the coast of the port town of Lüderitz, Namibia.
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▪ Kelp Blue receives green light from EIA for giant kelp farm in Namibia
▪ The Dutch aquaculture company Kelp Blue, founded in 2020 by Daniel Hooft, received the green light last week from the Namibian Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) agency for its giant kelp mega-farm project off the coast of the port town of Lüderitz, Namibia.
▪ https://www.africabusinessplus.com/en/807235/kelp-blue-receives-green-light-from-eia-for-giant-kelp-farm-in-namibia/
The $60 million project—a world first—is financed by the Namibian investment fund Eos Capital and Climate Fund Managers (owned by the Dutch bank FMO and the South African group Sanlam). It will focus on cultivating giant kelp seaweed on a submerged 800 ha structure. The idea is to harvest the canopy of this “submarine forest”.
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