Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 78528,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/78528/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 254,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
    },
    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The hon. Member for Lamu West was concerned about the high cost of energy and wanted to know when we will go nuclear. We have a very comprehensive programme on green energy, which includes nuclear energy. We are not just looking at nuclear energy. We are looking at others like geothermal, wind, solar and bio fuels in order to not only reduce the cost of energy, but also to go the route of clean energy. We are now very concerned about global warming and environmental degradation as a result of burning of fossil fuels. We have a nuclear programme and we are trying to collaborate with the Governments of France and Korea in our nuclear programme. Shortly, we will begin the process of recruiting manpower for training, because we need to develop the capacity to handle nuclear energy. In this programme, we have planned to save our generation capacity. When this Government came to power three years ago, our total capacity was 1,200 megawatts. We have since increased it by 300 megawatts, and we intend to double it by the year 2012. It is not only the Government that is involved. We are encouraging the private sector to invest heavily in that field. That is because the field is now fairly liberalized."
}