Government is hoping that it can conclude negotiations with China Railway Group Limited on the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) with the intention of starting construction by the third quarter of 2022, according to the head of the gas-to-shore taskforce Winston Brassington.
“We are currently engaging with China Rails in negotiations for this project to start by the third quarter of this year…,” Brassington said during a presentation on the project at the international oil and gas conference here on Thursday.
The AFHP, previously pegged at US$858.1 million, had been the flagship project of the PPP/C government when it was in power pre-2015. However, then opposition A Partner-ship for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) had used their joint one-seat majority to halt the project.
