RE: Hold up with Dev licence12 Mar 2024 15:24
Moreover, if you are to believe the soundbites, cheap onshore gas is viewed as being the driver of growth for the domestic economy and cheap fuel for the population, whereas the offshore LNG is seen as an export; though you might think the urgent need for foreign currency and particularly $US might focus their minds a little.
The never ending problem in Tanzania is politics and as has been seen in the past the likelihood that, during an election particularly, opposition forces will use the perceived "courting" of overseas companies to develope (or exploit) Tanzanian mineral wealth as a rod to beat the incumbent government with; the idea that the Tanzanian populace are being fleeced and their assets exploited by overseas companies with the connivance of a corrupt government.... that was how and why Magafuli was lauded by so many. With his perceived championing of the interests of the populace over the foreign insurgents - whilst, of course, lining his own and his acolytes pockets with large brown envelopes.