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    "id": 765236,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baya",
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion for the following facts: One, climate change is something that has affected the world in many ways, but when policies are drawn they need to address specific things. One of the things that you noticed if you followed the presidential elections in the United States of America is that climate change became one of the greatest talking points. And the current President of the USA disputed issues surrounding climate change. We, as Africans and as Kenyans, have always borrowed heavily what comes from the West and America. But Americans themselves doubt some things about climate change. Today in Kenya, Turkana has discovered a lot of oil. Carbon oils will definitely emit a lot of gases out there. How does a policy like the one that we have mitigate climate change when it allows the people of Turkana to get their oil and the money that comes with it? Policies, especially on climate change, have been known to muzzle mining and exploration of oils. So if we sit here today as Parliament and budget a policy framework on climate change, which has not taken care of the fact that it is now in Kenya that we are discovering hydrocarbons… Lamu which is in the coast is in the process of discovering hydrocarbons and mining in the ocean. Today a framework like this might impede the exploration of those oils, because it says we are moving to green energy. How has the ministry, therefore, looked at this policy vis-à-vis the new discoveries that we are making that are going to affect the people of Lamu who have been poor for many years and are now in the process of discovering oil? If you mine oil and gas from the ocean you will be told you are polluting the environment and it is not allowed, therefore shut up and go away. 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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