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Kwa kuwa ni Tetesi, ngoja tusikilizie tu hizi Tetesi kama ulivyosema na kuandikaTetesi zlizopo ni kwamba serikali ya Tanzania imekuwa ikilipwa mabilioni ya fedha na kampuni za nje lakini fedha hizi zimefanywa siri bila kuingizwa katika kasri za serikali, na hivyo kuwa nje ya wigo wa ukaguzi wa serikali kutia na CAG. Hili ndilo simulizi lililopo.
Nitawawapa dondoo za mazungumzo yaliyofanyika.
"Asikudanganye mtu, suala la Tanzania kununua ndege kwa fedha za kodi na pia kujenga Stiegler na SGR, daraja la Salenda na hizo flyover na mabarabara na miradi mikubwa inayofanyika, sio kwamba ni fedha za kodi. Tanzania haina ubavu huo wa fedha za kodi kufanya miradi mikubwa kama hiyo. Mnadanganywa. Tanzania imekuwa ikilipwa mabilioni ya fedha ambayo zimefanywa siri, na uongozi wa nchi kutumia fedha hizo kama mtaji wa kisiasa".
Lakini je, fedha hizo zinatoka wapi, na kwa nini Tanzania ilipwe? Simulizi linaendelea.
"Fedha hizo ni fedha za Helium ya Tanzania. Katika nchi ambazo zimebarikiwa rasilimali asili Tanzania labda inaongoza. Kuanzia miaka ya 2010 dunia ilionekana kwamba inaishiwa gesi ya Helium ambayo imekuwa ikitengenezwa viwandani na kuuzwa kwa bei kubwa"
"Kuna nchi sita tu duniani zinazozalisha Helium kwa sasa, na viwanda 14 duniani. Karibu nusu ya hii gesi inatoka USA. na theruthi moja inatoka Qatar. Sasa viwanda vyote hivi 14 vilivyopo duniani, vinazalisha Helium kutokana na natural gas. Tanzania ni nchi pekee duniani ambayo Helium imepetikana ardhini kwa wingi sana na ndio maana sasa iko katika nafasi ya kuongoza soko la Helium duniani".
"Hii gesi inapopatikana ardhini inakuwa na concentration ya wastani wa 2% na hivyo kufanya bei yake kuwa juu sana kwa kuchimba, na ndio maana inazalishwa viwandani. Sasa jambo moja la ajabu lilitokea. Mwaka 2015 wataalamu waligundua hii gesi Tanzania ikiwa inapatikana kwa kiwango cha juu sana, kati ya 5-15%. Hii ilifanya Tanzania kuwa nchi pekee ambayo ina Helium ardhini ambayo inaweza kuchimbwa na kuzalishwa kwa gharama ya chini kuliko inavyozalishwa na viwanda hivi 14 katika nchi 6 duniani. Na matokeo ni kwamba Tanzania ikajikuta katika nafasi ya kuongeongoza soko la Helium duniani, kama ambavyo Saudi Arabia inaongoza soko la mafuta duniani."
"Kwa sasa kuna upungufu mkubwa wa Helium. Kufuatia upungufu wa hii gesi, Marekani hata walianza kuweka hifadhi kubwa ya gesi hii kwa ajili ya matumizi ya baadae. Upungufu wa hii gesi umefanya bei yake uongezeka kwa zaidi ya asilimia 135% kwa mwaka mmoja tu!"
"Hii gesi ya Helium ni muhimu sana na itaipaisha Tanzania kiuchumi kuliko hata kama ingekuwa na mafuta. Matumizi ya hii gesi ni pamoja na kwenye mambo kama welding na hata utaalamu wa space (kwa kiingereza uses of Helium gas: are arc welding, chromatography, medical lasers, optical fiber, intercontinental ballistic missiles, space travel, etc)"
"Lakini sasa kukawa na tatizo. Ikiwa Tanzania ingeruhusiwa kuchimba hii Helium na kuuza, basi ingeuza kwa bei poa kiasi kwamba ingeua kabisa uzalishaji wa hivi viwanda 14, USA akiwa mzalishaji mkubwa. Basi inaonekana kulikuwa na makubaliano kwamba Tanzania icheleweshe uzalishaji wa Helium hadi wakati unaokubalika. Lakini kwa kufanya hivyo, lazima kulikuwa na makubaliano kwamba Tanzaia ilipwe fedha nyingi kama "compensation" ya kuzuia uzalishaji wa Helium ili kunusuru kampuni zinazouza Helium kwa sasa. Hiyo ndiyo fedha inayofanya miradi yenu ambayo wanasiasa wenu wanawaambia eti ni kodi za wananchi ili kuji-promote kisiasa. Habari ya ugunduzi wa Heluim Tanzania na umuhimu wa hii gesi katika soko la dunia, ilipaswa kuwa kubwa kuliko kama Tanzania ingegundua mafuta. Sasa jiulize, kwa nini wanasiasa wenu wamekaa kimya kuhusu huu ugunduzi mkubwa uliofanyika Tanzania? Tanzania ni nchi pekee duniani unapata Helium ardhini na utatawala soko la dunia kama ilivyo kwa Tanzanite, na mnakaa kimya, kwa nini?"
Reference: In Photos: Massive Underground Helium Reserve Found in Tanzania
Taarifa ya Bloomberg Businessweek juu ya Helium ya Tanzania
2019-08-28
Helium is produced on Earth by the natural radioactive decay of uranium and thorium, which are present in all rocks. But that process takes a long time—as in billions of years—so you’d need some seriously old stones. And because such old rocks don’t have a lot of gas-trapping formations, you’d need some geologic activity to break them apart and form fractures through which the helium could escape. Then you’d need heat to push the helium up through the fractures, and sedimentary formation at the surface to store it in traps between the layers of sediment, as in a reservoir.
Ballentine and colleague Diveena Danabalan identified Tanzania as one place with this kind of interplay at work. Ancient rocks formed in the African tectonic plate about 2 billion years ago, making them sufficiently old for radioactive decay to produce a lot of helium. Thirty million years ago, the plate began to pull apart, forming the Great Rift Valley, which reaches 1,700 miles from southern Tanzania up to Eritrea and the Red Sea. That process created fractures that allow magma to escape; the magma would provide the heat necessary to force the helium upward. Meanwhile, at the surface, sediments were deposited, providing the reservoirs where helium could be found. “That combination of factors makes possible helium accumulation at the surface,” says Emmanuel Kazimoto, a geology lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam.
Among the key uses for helium today are arc welding, chromatography, medical lasers, optical fiber, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and space travel. The Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator outside Geneva wrestling with the biggest questions of physics, needs 120 metric tons of helium a week to keep running. Helium can make things superconductive, meaning they can transmit electricity basically forever without generating any heat, and other helium properties make the element essential for semiconductor manufacturing. Every MRI machine in the world bathes its magnetic coils in liquid helium to prevent overheating.
Like the price of lithium, the price of helium is one of the more opaque among commodities, but reports said it jumped 135% from the previous year. With such extreme sensitivity in this market, a big new helium source could, just maybe, transform a whole country’s economy. A country such as, say, Tanzania.
Tetesi, basi sawa
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