The Hon. Hector Appuhamy
Hon. Hector Appuhamy criticized the Minister’s response on fuel storage, referring to earlier claims about managing supplies through the Trincomalee oil tanks and stating that the lack of tanks was not an adequate answer. He also raised concerns about environmental harm to residents near Norochcholai from the burning of substandard coal and requested that the Minister inform Parliament of the steps to address it.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, that was a threatening answer. The current President once said that if we had the Trincomalee oil tanks, we would know how to manage oil supplies for the people. Hon. Minister, we even saw you going inside an oil tank. Do not now say there are no tanks to fill. That is not the answer.
¶ 02 Further, people living around Norochcholai suffer environmental damage due to burning substandard coal. As the MP representing the area, I request you to state the steps you will take to eliminate this environmental damage and inform this august House accordingly.
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Cite as: The Hon. Hector Appuhamy. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 3 March 2026. No. 23335. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/14769