The proposals would also enable the gas distribution companies to connect around 80, 000 "poor fuel households" to the gas network for the first time, and pay for carbon monoxide awareness programmes.
Gas does now contribute 35% to power generation, but rock-bottom prices and a sniffiness about gas as oil's poor relation mean that exploiting its bounty (Saudi Arabia apparently has the world's fifth-largest gas reserves) has proven hard.
The populists shout louder, and claim that they are helping the poor through state control of oil and gas.
But maize flour and cylinders of cooking gas, two staples for the poor, have become scarce and expensive.
Iran has begun to overhaul their subsidies (and they are by far the largest) by replacing below market price gas and petrol with cash grants to poor families.
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Bolivia, a poor and landlocked country, has an opportunity to use its gas reserves to develop.
The program, launched in September 2001, focuses on reform of electric power markets, the geopolitical consequences of newly emerging global natural gas markets, energy services for the world's poor, and managing climate change and other environmental consequences of modern energy systems.
Contrary to images of "going back to the Stone Age, " this form of energy efficiency actually increases the levels of illumination (and thus literacy), while trimming greenhouse gas emissions, indoor air pollution and energy bills that mire the poor in poverty.
Additionally, because of poor drainage, water ponds formed on the VML. These water ponds produced more methane gas, and the subsequent runoff traveled back into the VML and the Speedway Landfill.
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It was seen as a spectacular Italian coup when Eni became operational leader, but the thanks to a poor infrastructure for exploration in the northern Caspian sea, costly regulations about the burning off of gas at oil wells, and the rising costs of oil extraction, production was slowed and costs overrun.
Kevin Roxburgh from Scottish Gas-Centrica told the committee he would like to see a biased towards helping fuel poor in rural areas where the housing stock is more of a problem.
Most of the displaced shipments of natural gas are expected to find a home in Asia's fast-growing but resource-poor economies.
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