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    "id": 503338,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "Madam Speaker. We have Madam Speaker, I am sorry! I never looked at that side. I did not know that the Chair had changed because I was addressing the House, but forgive me for that. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to say this is an important Bill because it addresses several issues that touch on humanity and environmental conservation in this country. Let me say that global warming and climate change are real. The temperatures of the globe are warming every year because of the Carbon (IV) Oxide which is emitted from factories, cars and all manufacturing plants. As a result, that carbon eats the Ozone Layer (O3) and then the sun’s rays penetrate through and heat the ground. However, because of that Carbon excretion, the heat that hits the ground from the sun cannot escape so it warms the globe. This Bill seeks to address that because if there is afforestation, reafforestation and conservation of the environment, we will address that because forests act as Carbon sinks. They absorb the CO2 in the atmosphere and that helps the globe not to warm up. I am appealing to all the legislators here to talk to their constituents to plant as many trees as possible so that they also benefit from the Carbon Credit. The world governments are giving money to those people who conserve the environment. The other issue that this Bill addresses is the sustainable harvesting and management of the environmental resources. Why sustainable? It is because there has been confusion on sand harvesting in areas where we come from. County governments and other governments are preventing unemployed youths from forming groups and harvesting sand. It is not a crime to harvest sand and you can make it very clear. You can build sand dams, sand is collected and you harvest. What is a crime is scooping all the sand from the river bed to the extent of leaving it bare. Sand harvesting is like grain and tree harvesting because it sort of grows and builds again so long as it is done in a sustainable manner –the word here hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker is “sustainable”. It has to be done in a sustainable way. And with that rider before I get back to the Bill, I just want to tell the Government not to interfere by trying to scuttle the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). The NGOs do a lot of work in trying to conserve and in teaching the communities how to sustainably benefit from the environment. The Government should not curb the resources that come to the NGOs. Those resources come to the NGOs to help communities harvest the resources that God has given to them sustainably. The Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act of 1999 was a very good Act. This Bill, apart from the additions, does not change the core part of that Act. It was very well crafted. It aligns it with the Constitution, makes it relevant and increases those other clauses that talk about county governments and the new structures that we have initiated with the new Constitution of Kenya, 2010. The Bill seems to address issues like mining, which were not very active in the country before. But now, Kenya has discovered fossil fuel, oil in Turkana, natural gas in Coast, coal and iron ore in Kitui and Kwale. Many other minerals have been discovered in this country. This Bill seeks to give The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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