The Alliance For Change (AFC) has expressed deep concern over the state of the nation’s electricity sector in light of the administration’s recent announcement that the Wales gas-to-shore project won’t be ready until next year.
The concern was expressed by David Patterson, MP, and former Minister of Works, at yesterday’s AFC press conference on what it viewed as the sad state of the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) operations and electricity supply.
The party said that it should come as no surprise that the “ill-conceived” Wales Gas to Energy project has been delayed since as far as the party was concerned, “from the inception, this project was doomed to fail.” And to support this view, it pointed out that there were no studies, other than those undertaken by the coalition administration prior to 2019; the selection of the project site remains questionable; the economic viability of the project is untested, and in fact even the basis for the need for this project was flawed.
