No coal fired power plant for Goat Island !

I very strongly suspect that China Harbour Engineering Chec will no longer (smile) be building any coal fired plant on Goat Island and this would be a win for the environmentalist .

Hey not so fast, this may appear to have been a win for local environmental group and may appear to be a shot in the arm for the Environment Minister, who could very well try to steal the limelight given he virtually does no work.

If I am right ( and I think I am), I can hear Robert Pickergill saying

” We are a government that listens to the people of the country. Since the proposal was made by CHEC, I have been having discussions with Dr Omar Davis who has responsibility for the logistics hub project and Energy Minister Phillip Paul on this matter and has expressed the concern of the people of Jamaica to CHEC.  They (CHEC) have been very responsive and has decided to no longer purue this option, but instead will enter into a joint venture partneship with EWI to build instead a LNG power plant.

In our negotiations, we have managed to persuade CHEC assist in the  expansion of  the capability of the plant and so instead of a 360MW power plant, we will instead have a 434MW plant . ( BTW this is exactly the size of the plant proposed by EWI even though the REP was for a 360MW plant).

This we believe will be the best option and this plant can meet the need of power for the logistics hub and the local grid and would be much cleaner than a coal fired plant”.

 

Desk thumping , loud cheers .

🙂

 

The idea of a coal fired plant was simply a smoke screen and the so called plan to no longer pursue that option would be no win for environmentalist, but a great PR job done my masters of deception and  very good at their craft.