Dear Editor,
The government has had ample opportunity to improve the energy situation but at every cross-road it takes the wrong turn. In 2000 when Suriname military gunboats forced the Canadian Oil Company CGX to stop drilling for oil all the government had to do was to use the GDF to secure the CGX project. Instead the government chose to run to the United Nations and in the process Guyana lost seven years of economic activity in the energy sector.
A second blunder by the government was not making the hydro-electric project the number one priority in the energy sector. The government has had over a decade to build a hydro-electric dam and had they pursued this course Guyana would not have had to depend on Venezuela which has territorial claims against Guyana.
The government has blundered and it is left to the people to suffer the consequences.
Yours faithfully,
Vaughn Elroy Jeffrey Phillips
Leader, GNP
