Peril and promise: Gas from ‘killer lake’ powers Rwanda
On Lake Kivu, lying between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the KivuWatt company extracts gas from the lake's waters for electricity. PHOTO | AFP
What you need to know:
Thousands of years of volcanic activity has caused a massive accumulation of methane and carbon dioxide to dissolve in the depths of Kivu - enough to prove monumentally destructive in the rare event they were released.
