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Aug 24, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

The headline in Kaieteur News today read in bold red letters – Gas is not a Bridge to cleaner Energy; it’s a wall. After reading the article, I wondered what was the intention of this message in your Kaieteur News and to whom was it intended? This message is more appropriate to North America where I live and where Natural Gas use is ubiquitous, yet I must confess this is the first time I’ve seen this message or heard of Greg Muttitt and the IISD.
Are you sending a message to the government because of their plans to use the vast abundance of Natural Gas coming from petroleum production (that is now being “flared” by Exxon) to generate electricity?
If this is the case then your message smacks of hypocrisy. If you care so much about greenhouse gas production and feel that this message is important enough to be headlined in KN, then you need to call on the government to cease oil production. It is that plain and simple.
If you are so worried about the greenhouse gas production then look at the big picture. The oil Guyana produces and will produce in ever increasing quantities, will result in greenhouse gas production magnitudes higher than what would be produced from gas fired generators in a country of less than a million people. Why direct a message to a people to whom this message was not intended?
Natural Gas is indeed a greenhouse gas producer but compared to Coal, Bunker C and other fossil fuels used for power generation, it burns cleaner and has less adverse effects on the environment. In fact, hundreds of millions of homes and businesses use Natural Gas and I don’t know of an alternative fuel we have on hand that is as readily and cheaply available as Natural Gas.
Natural Gas is used to heat homes, cook food, fuel gas-powered generators, power vehicles and in industry to manufacture other products. Russia supplies Northern Europe with Natural gas which, ever increasing demand has prompted the construction of the Nordstream 2 pipeline and I have not yet even factored in China’s demand and consumption.
You do the math and you’ll soon realize that Guyana’s intended use of Natural Gas for power generation is negligible compared to the rest of the world. Instead of galvanising your readers with an eye-catching, irrelevant headline, you need to first realise your message has no relevance to Guyana.

Sincerely,
Dennis Balgobin

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