Book on oil and gas for Parliament

Page 14, July 3, 2010
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah

KUMASI Institute for Technology and Environment (KITE,) a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has presented copies of two books on the emerging oil and gas industry to Parliament.
The books, Oil and Gas Terminologies and Ghana’s Emerging Petroleum Industry: What Stakeholders Need to Know, are meant to educate Members of Parliament (MPs) to enable them to be abreast of issues about the industry.
The Director of KITE, Mr Ishmael Edjekumhene, said as architects of the country’s laws, MPs need to come to terms with issues in the emerging industry so that the country have the requisite laws to make the oil and gas beneficial rather than a curse.
The Deputy Majority Leader, Mr Rashid Pelpuo, who received 300 copies each of the two books, thanked the NGO for its gesture and expressed the hope that the MPs and staff of Parliament would read them to have more knowledge about the industry.
For his part, the Minority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, said there was the need for Ghanaians to gain more knowledge about the industry so that Ghana would not commit some of the mistakes that other oil-rich countries had committed.