Final review of Amaila hydro project still to get underway

The final review of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) has not yet started and while Norway has identified an international consultant to undertake the review, the Government of Guyana is requesting that three nominees be submitted from which it would select one to undertake the project.

Both sides are awaiting the study on the contentious AFHP to make a definitive decision on how to proceed. The AFHP was the flagship project of the five-year forests protection partnership –which ended last year – between Guyana and Norway in which Guyana could earn up