Dear Editor,
I wish to finally vent my growing disgust at the government for their backward, outdated and obsolete approach to Guyana’s energy supply. It is bad enough that the Guyanese public and businesses face huge bills for electricity because the government has failed to get better systems on stream by now. We are still using fossil fuels, ie diesel, gasoline, etc, which are expensive, unsustainable, old fashioned and heavily polluting. And I am hoping that the government is not thinking that if and when CGX finds oil we will finally be well off in supplying our systems. This approach is obsolete and unsustainable, not to mention that it creates lots of greenhouse gas. Many countries of the world are moving forward by putting money and effort into finding ways of using renewable energy in order to supply the public and industry. We are still depending on combustion turbines!
While Suriname is enjoying cheap, clean energy from hydro, we have been struggling to get ours off the ground for years. And while Spain and the US are investing in world famous solar power fields, and other European and North American countries are putting up wind turbines, we are floundering with our antiquated system.
