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Government to ban gas refill at stations
This means that individuals, who use cylinders will now go to LPG retail outlets with their empty cylinders, pick up filled ones and pay for them upfront.
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This forms part of a comprehensive national policy aimed at bringing an end to gas explosions at gas filling outlets.
The policy, which will be rolled out by the Ministry of Energy, requires cylinders to be filled at cylinder bottling plants for onward delivery to retail outlets.
This implies that individuals, who use cylinders will now go to LPG retail outlets with their empty cylinders, pick up filled ones and pay for them upfront.
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The acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Mr Hassan Tampuli told the Daily Graphic that the cylinder bottling companies would be solely responsible for the cylinders that would be given to the public.
“They will be in charge of safety and quality checks. This will go a long way to save the lives of innocent Ghanaians,” he said.
Mr Tampuli added that “The issue of gas explosions is of grave concern to the government”, adding that it is the hope of the Ministry, the NPA and stakeholders to bring an end to the problem.
Scores of Ghanaians have so far lost their lives in recent gas explosions with several others getting injured.
The most recent ones occurred in Takoradi in the Western Region on May 9, 2017 and at La Trade Fair area in Accra on December 22, 2016.
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