Kazakhstan’s President
Nursultan Nazarbayev has
ordered the construction of a new national gas pipeline stretching from
Kyzylorda in the south of Kazakhstan to the Kazakh capital, Astana.
"Only nine (of Kazakhstan’s) regions are currently gasified – mainly
in the western and southern regions, while the central and northern
regions of the country are still without gas. This makes it necessary to
build a gas pipeline,” Nazarbayev told a joint session of the Houses of
Parliament on March 5.
Gas production in the country has annually increased from 8 to 52
billion cubic meters since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, a
figure that will continue to grow on a yearly basis, according to
Nazarbayev.
Nazarbayev stressed that the Kazakh government must attract
investment funds, including from international financial institutions to
complete the project, adding that the project should be implemented
within the next 18 months.
The project is expected to see a ten-fold reduction of harmful emissions in the atmosphere to 35,000 tonnes of solids in Astana.
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