Now that the Government has decided to resuscitate the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project, it is time to revisit the Project. In July – August 2013, we had carried three articles titled “Putting the cart before the horse: The Amaila Falls Hydropower Project”. This was at a time when there was a PPP/C-led minority government, and a huge controversy had erupted in the National Assembly as to whether the Project should proceed. The combined opposition, comprising the APNU and the AFC, was not in favour of an increase in the ceiling for the Government’s guarantees of loans to public corporations and State-owned/controlled companies in order to give coverage to the Power Purchase Agreement between Guyana Power and Light and Amaila Falls Hydro (AFH) Inc.
