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Tanzanian Gas Bill Up for Debate

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Tanzania’s new bill aimed at guiding the development of the country’s natural gas industry will go before parliament for debate during March. The bill is one of six emergency bills that will be put before parliament.

The country has already published three separate policies on natural gas but has been taking its time in passing the legislation covering its hydrocarbon industry.

‘The government will unveil the Natural Gas Bill of 2015 in parliament under certificate of urgency this month,’ a senior official in the ministry of energy and minerals told Reuters. “We want the bill to be quickly debated by lawmakers and subsequently passed during the two-week parliament session that starts on Tuesday,”an official said in a Reuters report.


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