When the corrupt and thiefin jagdeo was selling the Berbice bridge pig in a bag solution the cost to traverse the river was presented as being cheaper than using the ferry to consumers and the public.

The reality is that the cost is astronomical compared to what was being paid on the ferry.

You need to pour more serpent piss on this to sell to the Guyanese people. The majority of Guyanese in Guyana spoke loudly and opposed this deal. Ramotar cannot ram it down the throats of Guyanese to full jagdeo pocket.

Head of State disclosed that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is “still on board” for the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP). “We are working very hard to bring this back on stream,” he said.

To Mr President. Wisdom shall prevail.

The world could be onboard to help the PPP thief, but the majority of the electorate is what ultimately matters. Pour some more serpent piss there for us.

Guyana’s hydropower capacity, particularly given that cheap energy supply can increase Guyana’s competitiveness in the several emerging sectors, since it is more economical to establish “energy farms” as compared to paying “significant costs” for fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels at today's rates are cheaper than building that goadie dry up falls by some chinee company.

This Hydro seed is another skeldon in the making but 100 times worse.

You work like Satan in mysterious ways to go against everything that is righteous. That's how he gets his fame by destroying all good things to mankind. Keep on fighting God. 

Old fart, is how many threads yuh gonna start up? Like yuh short term memory gone.

Amaila Falls runs dry

The Amaila Falls which was intended to supply the nation with 165 megawatts of electricity and save Guyana millions of US dollars is bone dry.

An overhead view of the dried out Amaila Falls

Yesterday, Works Minister Robeson Benn said that it is not unusual for waterfalls used to provide hydroelectricity to run dry. He pointed to power stations in Suriname and in Brazil. He said that when the contractors would have built a dam that would have stored water to smoothen the flow regime. The dam would have given rise to a reservoir which would have been used to regulate the flow of water for the hydro. Minister Benn also explained that in times of heavy rainfall, the excess water would have been released through gates. He insisted that had there been a dam, the extent of dryness at this time would not have been as severe. The hydroelectric facility was being constructed at a whopping US860 million. This dry spell revealed that Guyana could not have depended on the hydro for a continuous supply of power. Minister Benn said that the engines currently in use by Guyana Power and Light would have been kept to provide a back up. The smaller engines would have been distributed to places like Mahdia and Port Kaituma and some Berbice locations

A photograph provided by GINA of Amaila Falls with a bountiful supply of water in March Last year

where electricity is generated for no more than four hours a day. But if indeed that were to be the case then whenever the falls runs dry the nation would have experienced severe power outages. Amaila would certainly not have been worth the money spent to build it.

Miths, I hope you and I can live long enough to witness the completion of the Hydro Power Project. I just want to prove you wrong. 

I feel that we could have harnessed smaller falls than to put all the eggs in one basket. This is another white elephant in the making.

Dried up Amaila Falls vindicates opposition stance on project

– David Granger

The graphic image of a dried up Amaila Falls and Kuribrong River, vindicates the position held by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) that the proposed 165MW project was badly conceived in the first place. Leader of the political opposition party, David Granger, in an invited comment yesterday, said that the possibility of a dried up falls and river is the reason why APNU had called for a Potaro Basin Development Authority in the first place. He said that such a body would have been equipped with the necessary skills that would have been able to properly analyze and predict weather patterns. Granger said that the major flaw in the project design was to single out the Amaila site and Kuribrong River as the only source of water for the hydro electric plant.

An overhead view of the dried up Amaila Falls and Kuribrong River

According to Granger, there are a number of other sources of water in the Potaro basin that could have been diverted to the reservoir for the plant. This would have allowed for a more stable supply of water that could facilitate an even larger plant. He said, too, that a glaring example of the project being poorly conceived and implemented was the fact that at one point when the project was set to take off, there were still surveys being conducted. Granger was making reference to the plane that had crashed on a Plaisance home which had been contracted by Sithe Global. The American registered aircraft, a twin-engine Piper Aztec with registration number N27-FT, was on a technical survey mission for the Amaila Falls project. Granger suggested that there is a need for a project that supplies much more than the proposed 165MW hence the need for a more guaranteed supply of water for the project. The Opposition leader said that the availability of water from the Kuribrong River for the Amaila Falls project is but one aspect of the concerns surrounding the project. Granger said that the Amaila Falls location could very well still be the best location for the project but this has to be verified and backed up with solid data that could have been put together by the proposed Potaro Basin Development Authority. He said that the opposition is also concerned about the costs, transmission line and the building of the road among other aspects of the project. The Amaila Falls which was intended to supply the nation with 165MW of electricity and save Guyana millions of US dollars is at present, bone dry. Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn, said that it is not unusual for waterfalls used to provide hydroelectricity to run dry. He pointed to power stations in Suriname and in Brazil. He said that the contractors would have built a dam that would have stored water to smoothen the flow regime. The dam would have given rise to a reservoir which would have been used to regulate the flow of water for the hydro. Minister Benn also explained that in times of heavy rainfall, the excess water would have been released through gates. He insisted that had there been a dam, the extent of dryness at this time would not have been as severe.

Mitwah, stop being a spoil party popper and stop repeating yourself with you dried up sugar cake. 

Is sugar cake and coconut cake the same?

Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn, said that it is not unusual for waterfalls used to provide hydroelectricity to run dry. He pointed to power stations in Suriname and in Brazil.

There are no waterfalls used to provide hydro power in Suriname. Benn has no clue what he is talking about.