The government through its sole petroleum
development company (TPDC) has started to connect gas users to be supplied in industries
and individual houses in various places in the country. The deputy minister of
Energy Subira Mgalu has informed the parliament today that, currently most
people are using the liquefied gas which is being imported by private traders into
the country. The minister was responding to the question during questions and
answer session in Parliament today as earlier raised by a legislator Zainabu Mndolwa
(CUF) who wanted to know the extent to which Tanzania is using its own gas.
Kawe
legislator (Chadema) Halima Mdee gestures as she makes a point in Parliament
The
deputy minister said that, the gas project is going on in the country under the
Japanese assistance through its development agency (JICA) and that about Tshs.
140 million has been set aside for the use of the gas in the country. The
deputy minister also responded a supplementary question raised by Kawe
legislator (Chadema) Halima Mdee who wanted to know why government is embarking
on the construction of the Stigler Gorge while the project for Mtwara gas is
not complete. Responding to the question, the minister noted that, as the
country is championing the industrialization drive, i]t need to have an
abundant megawatts of the electricity to be supplied and the excess megawatts
be sold outside.
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