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Feb 02, 2017 News
The Main Parliamentary Opposition – the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) – wants all the studies that were conducted with regards to alternative energy, to be sent to a Parliamentary Special Select Committee to be scrutinised.
Issuing the call on behalf of the Opposition was Member of Parliament, Juan Edghill, at the 60th Sitting of the National Assembly, last Monday.
Edghill said that these studies and reports include the NorConsult Report on the feasibility fact-based assessment of the Amalia Falls Hydropower Project; and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-sponsored Energy Mix Study.
Edghill was at the time delivering a statement with regards to a motion that he tabled in the National Assembly. That motion was subsequently defeated by a Government Majority.
The motion is as follows:
WHEREAS electricity is considered the “staff of modern life” allowing for faster and enhanced communications, learning, production and productivity;
AND WHEREAS the Guyana Power and Light Incorporation (GPL) is a state owned company that offers an essential service to the country and its future developmental strategy, and, has benefitted from significant investments through loan agreements, grants from international developmental partners and injection of public funds for its expansion and development;
AND WHEREAS GPL is in recent times being plagued by frequent widespread and unscheduled power outages affecting production and productivity in all sectors;
AND WHEREAS neither the GPL nor the Government has offered any acceptable explanation, nor measures for the amelioration of, these frequent widespread and unscheduled power outages;
AND WHEREAS the imposition of VAT on an already unreliable supply of electricity will only aggravate the frustrations people are experiencing and further disincentivize the productive and business sectors;
AND WHEREAS neither the Board of Directors of the GPL nor the Government appear to have any medium nor long term strategy for the energy sector and the provision of reliable, affordable and sustainable power;
AND WHEREAS neither the GPL nor the Government thus far has informed the public after 19 months of what is its long term strategy for this sector;
BE IT RESOLVED:
That this National Assembly calls on the Government to inform the public and this House as to the causes of and measures it will be taking to ameliorate the frequent widespread and unscheduled power outages that the country is experiencing;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
That this National Assembly calls on the GPL and the Government to abide by the procurement laws of this country and ensure that contracts are fairly and transparently awarded so that the programmes in place for this sector can proceed with no further delays;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
That the Government unveils its long term strategy for this sector through a national consultative process without further delay.
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