Amaila Falls project represents progress

Jan 11, 2024 Letters

Dear Editor,

The retrograde governance policies of the PNC stink to the high heaves, theirs is a politics I would call “tenement yard politics,” with no vision or futuristic approach, this shows their backwardness at every turn. A pertinent factor I would like us to focus our attention is power generation.

Power generation and energy use has increased four-fold since the modern era, newer businesses have gone up which require more energy consumption by the local industrial community. Even domestic usage has tripled, so to speak, as more and more households are going up. Guyana is in an upward trajectory which logically means that the present energy generation system is outdated and has to be increased.

What the previous administration did was, what I again refer to, tenement yard policies, continue the patchwork of the old diesel-powered systems to generate power in a period where local consumption gobbled up all that there is with a vacuum remaining. This backward mentality has left us battling with the sustainability with what exists, while renewing our plans for an affordable and reliable power source for the future.

No government will succeed if it continues to plan for the here and now with no futuristic planning to move the country into an enlightened tomorrow, and the area of power generation is crucial to any discussion where development of one’s country is concerned. With this in mind, we see the visionless move by the PNC when they struck down The Amaila Falls HEP Project. That move was the embodiment of that administration’s reversal of any plans to move this country forward, and this could not continue. This was one factor why they lost the election. With no vision or the lack thereof, we were on a downward spiral. Amaila represents progress, it is power generation in a renewable way into the future.

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