Tanzania: Power comes at a price
2 June 2009 | Neville Meena
Songo Songo Island is the site of Tanzania’s largest natural gas reserves. This gas is piped 250 km away to be converted to low-cost electricity in the capital Dar es Salaam. But local people in the district of Kilwa surrounding the gas fields have no access to this power. And they are frustrated at being held back by their costly and unreliable supplies.
Neville Meena reports.
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- An oil rig in the Niger delta. On the other side of the continent, in Tanzania, people are complaining that they're not getting access to their own sources of energy / Jacob Silberberg - Panos Pictures
Neville Charles Meena lives in Tanzania, working for the Tanzanian ITV.
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