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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "the initial five years of production they need to stimulate the pressure so that oil can come out. When you are exploiting oil, you have two wells. There is the well that you dig and get the oil and there is the other second well that pushes water so that the natural pressure is increased and the oil is extracted easily. For the first five years of having the injection well, the one that pushes water as opposed to the production well, 330,000 barrels of water per day will be required. I am talking about the resource called natural water. One barrel of water is 163,000 litres. Tullow Africa, Total Energies and Project Oil Kenya will need 53 million litres of water per day for five years so that they can exploit that oil. That water is a resource that will come from that county. The people who live there were using that water. There is a whole biodiversity ecosystem that exists there. That ecosystem is going to suffer. Who is going to compensate the people of Turkana for the water? We are not talking about the oil. This Bill says let us look at the sharing of benefits between the natural resource exploiters, the owners of those resources – that is the local communities - the county governments and the national Government. This is a very important Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, when these oil companies come to mine in an area that has been found with oil, they do a signature bonus. It is like a commitment signature. They pay as much as US$100 million. That is billions in Kenya shillings. These are monies that must go towards compensating resources like water that is found there even before they start the actual extraction of the mine. We have to start giving the people of Kenya that money and not just in Tana River County or other places, but in places where natural resources are found. When natural resource exploiters come to invest, they must pay something to the communities that are there. This Bill is coming to change the way Kenya has been operating. Lake Bogoria is a natural resource. There are researchers who extract some enzymes from Lake Bogoria three times a month and those enzymes are used for creating detergents to clean the high-quality jeans that we wear. The local community that lives around Lake Bogoria get nothing out of that resource. The national Government, I dare say, gets nothing. The natural resource exploiter walks away with everything. The people know what is happening and nothing is being done."
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