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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "companies in India on solar system and turbines, and with development of such technologies in our country, we can increase production of renewable energy. On carbon credits and grassland conservation, which is another source of renewable energy, we can be moving to a greener environment for purposes of using renewable energy. Carbon credits are being experimented in my home area along the Kyulu Hills using the forest and grassland. With those carbon credits, we can get very good sources of renewable energy. It has so many advantages; which include not polluting the air and environment. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is also production and use of gasohol and biodiesel. Clause 74 is quite detailed on how we can come up with those renewable sources of energy. Geothermal is important and Clause 76 of the Bill talks about it. It places un-extracted geothermal resources in the land under the national Government. It allows the Cabinet Secretary (CS) responsible to issue a licence for the extraction of geothermal resources. This is in accordance with Article 71 of the Constitution that we have just talked about in the previous Bill. That makes it very clear. Clause 90 of the Bill provides for the establishment of a renewable energy feed-in tariff system. This, among other things, will be nice for catalysing the generation of electricity through renewable energy sources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. That is what I meant when I talked of not polluting the environment - by lessening reliance on non-renewable energy resources. Clause 90 of the Bill has explained that in detail. I invite Members to look into it. Clause 93 all the way to Clause 95 is about licences and permits. Under Clause 9 of the Bill that we have just concluded, we argued about the point in which an investor is given a licence or a permit, and whether we should get approval from Parliament. I invite Members to look at these clauses because they talk about the licences that need to be undertaken. It provides that a person who seeks to undertake the petroleum business shall acquire a licence, permit or certificate from the licensing authority and requires that the licensing authority keeps the register of all licences and permits granted. Clause 121 of the Bill provides for the regulation of downstream petroleum. It talks about imposing a duty on every county government to designate or provide a place or places exclusively reserved for the parking of petroleum tankers. That is because of the sensitivity as those are inflammable products. It places the county government with the responsibility of reserving designated parking for petroleum tankers. Part VI of the Bill provides that there are many actions to be taken on licences and permits. You may be denied or given a licence with a penalty and that a person aggrieved by the action of the authority may appeal to the Energy and Petroleum Tribunal. That tribunal has qualified members. I cannot locate that now but I have read about it. Some of the members of the tribunal are appointed by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). On offences and fines, we have had a lot of vandalism of energy products, specifically electricity products. Protection of electricity meters and cables is well explained in Clause 183. Clause 43 of the Bill explains those offences and fines. What is important to note is that those offences have been categorised as economic crimes. Surely, if you sabotage the energy sector, you are as well sabotaging the economy of this country. Therefore, these offences have been categorised as economic crimes so as to deter and minimise cases of rampant vandalism of critical services in this country."
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