'Leaked document casts shadow over Tanzania's bright gas extraction outlook'
by Pernille Baerendtsen
Summary:
No one knows for sure how much gas there is in Tanzania, but estimate-based
expectations of gas exploration in Tanzania are soaringly high, upgrading the
country's predicted economic growth rate.
There is growing dissatisfaction with the way the Tanzanian government handles
natural resources contracts and communicates information about them to
citizens.
Unless publicly scrutinized, decision makers in government remain free to make
whatever decisions they choose, unencumbered by any need to protect the public
interest.
The recent Statoil agreement may well have cost Tanzania several billion
dollars; yet it appears no-one is trying to hold those responsible to account.
This latest affair gives rise to further public mistrust.
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http://naiforum.org/2014/08/leaked-document-casts-shadow-over-tanzanias-bright-gas-extraction-outlook/
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