Natural Gas in Colombia: Connecting Poor Households

This video tells the story of a pilot project which has brought clean, affordable energy to over 34,000 poor households in Colombia. Natural gas is safer, less expensive, and less environmentally damaging than other cooking fuels, but the connection fees are often too high for low-income families.

World Bank in Colombia:
www.worldbank.org/colombia

To learn more about the food crisis, visit http://www.worldbank.org/foodcrisis

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Banco Mundial
• World Bank
• Development
• Colombia
• Natural Gas
• Energy
• Infrastructure
• Promigas poor
• households
• cooking

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In a few decades you'll only have natural gas to use as all the trees, wildlife and water will be gone, dead or contaminated because of the chemicals used to drill for the natural gas.