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Nov 02, 2022 Letters
Dear Editor:
After many months, the peaceful Deepavali celebrations allowed me a chance to glance at one of the daily newspapers in detail. At the bottom of the front page of one of the newspapers was the headline, “New UN Report warns against gas-to-energy type projects”. This newspaper article piqued my interest. So I took the time to read the entire UN Report.
The UN Report sought to lecture the Latin American countries on what they should and should not do concerning their energy development plan. But history will prove that this same UN conveniently chose not to steer China, India, Europe, Australia and North America for too many decades away from their climate destructive energy development plan. The mainstream environmentalists have labelled these plans as the primary cause for the current destruction of the environment.
But I want to focus on my homeland and a significant positive development in the making. From all that I have read, Guyana is trying its best to break free from the environmentally destructive ‘Bunker C’ power generation systems by switching to Natural Gas. No nation could achieve first-world status unless it has a low cost, reliable and uninterrupted power supply. And why should Guyana not dream of such a status in my lifetime? The facts will clearly illustrate that our energy network is one of the most expensive and unreliable in the Caribbean.
I want to stand with the ideas put forward by the Hon. Vice President Jagdeo, who stated, “there is no path to net-zero without using natural gas as a transition fuel”. It is economically reckless of any nation to leave natural gas in the ground and move straight to renewable energy at a hefty cost. In support of Dr. Jagdeo’s suggestions, we must push extremely hard to build the Gas-to-Energy Power Plant before the end of 2024. Any delay will cost this nation billions in lost economic potential.
Let me outline my case for the man in the street:
The fact remains that Natural Gas is the bridge fuel and is not the ‘be all and end all’ of the energy transition strategy of this nation and will not be the only ingredient in our future energy mix. But, what is sure at this point in time, is that the low efficiency ‘Bunker C’ gas-guzzling power plants must go, and the faster this happens, the better for the economic transition ambitions of this nation.
Enough said, but I cannot, without a clear conscience, remain silent on an economically and scientifically sound attempt by Dr. Jagdeo to provide lower cost and more reliable energy to this nation using a ‘bridge fuel’ called Natural Gas which is in abundance in our jurisdiction. Every patriotic, pro-Guyana, progressive Guyanese must stand up and support the Wales-based Gas-to-Shore Power Generation Project. I call on all Guyanese to put all of our energies into completing it before 2024.
I thank you, Editor, for providing me with the courtesy of your pages to make these statements.
Regards
Sasenarine Singh
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