It comes to a point where sometimes you decide you just can’t take it anymore. We wonder when Guyanese will reach this point about the lies and misinformation being peddled about the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project (AFHEP). Especially by the Kaieteur News. With a project of that magnitude, no Guyanese would disagree that we have to be careful of possible skulduggery on funds to be spent. Hey…when you’re dealing with human beings; that has to be your default setting.

But if you’re ever to accomplish anything, there’s got to be some balance between prudence and persecution. If Guyana is ever going to get cheaper electricity to attract manufacturing companies here and take us out of the plastic bucket economy, we’ve got to get real. If anyone needed to be convinced that the AFHEP is being persecuted rather than probed, they only need to look at the lurid headlines the Kaieteur’s been running about the Amaila river running dry.

 

Since when can this be news rather than the “cuss down”, “talk name” and gyaaf Dem Boys have over cheap liquor at the local rum shop? Every single news item about AFHEP had mentioned the extensive area that would be flooded to act as a reservoir to deliver a steady flow in and out rainy seasons. In case Dem Boys couldn’t read (whether from a deficient childhood education or too much cheap liquor), they could’ve looked at the “artist’s impression” of the facility they carried with every concoction they brewed.

 

Every hydroelectric project in the world has to cater for reduced water flow from its source river…and they do this by creating reservoirs just as AFHEP would do. And it was publicly mentioned on so many occasions that much of the present capacity of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) would remain in place to act as backup to also cater for periods of reduced generation or supply, for one reason or another.

 

Did Dem Boys think the government would throw away the GPL generators as the People’s National Congress (PNC) and Hamilton Green did with the steel rails from the railways they decommissioned?

 

We were rather surprised that Leader of the Opposition David Granger would pander to this kind of reckless gossip-mongering. Surely he knows that the hydro project of the founder leader Forbes Burnham back in the 1970s also included a reservoir to cater for reduced water flow.

 

This is no way to destroy a project that can lead to power independence.

The very idea that it is free is selling Nancy story.

Balderdash.

The Amaila project should have been located at Tumatumari

Posted By Staff Writer On October 14, 2013 @ 5:04 am In Letters | 

Tumatumari hydroelectric project; in its current state or a rebuilt one; will only serve local needs.

Hhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....Was Amaila meant for international demand?

Tumatumari Hydro electric plant on the cards

April 25, 2013, By KNews, Filed Under News, Source

The Hydro plant at Tumatumari is very much on the cards. Managing Director of Dynamic Engineering Mr.Lloyd Rose, said last week that arrangements are being finalized for the commencement of the project in the second half of this year.

He promised to release more details on the arrangements for the construction of the hydroelectric facility on his return from Honduras, but stressed,”Dynamic Engineering is in the final stages of preparation for the reconstruction of the hydro at Tumatumari. The hydro is definitely coming up.”

The rapids at Tumatumari and remains of the historic Tumatumari Hydro plant which supplied electricity from the late 1950s to the 1980s.

 

Mr. Rose said that Mahdia will be one of the beneficiaries of electricity provided by the reconstructed hydroelectric facility.

Mark Crawford, Region Eight Chairman, recently stated that the provision of electricity via the Tumatumari hydro plant is the most feasible solution for Mahdia and neighbouring communities.

He made the comment in relation to rationing of electricity by Mahdia Power and Light Company which many residents were finding to be extremely inconveniencing.

Crawford said that with hydro power from Tumatumari, some expected benefits are reduced electricity costs, reduced greenhouse gases (emission), saved foreign exchange on over 180 barrels of fuel monthly that is needed for the large generator at the Mahdia power company, and a more reliable supply of electricity.

“I believe that no effort should be spared by the government to assist the developers of the Tumatumari hydroelectricity since it will benefit the interior tremendously,” he said.

The hydro power plant at Tumatumari was constructed utilizing the rapids of the Potaro River near Tumatumari in the late 1950s by the British Guiana Consolidated Gold Fields and the Potaro Electric Company.

The plant was used to provide electricity for the gold mining operations of that company. The Tumatumari hydro plant provided electricity up to as late as the 1980s but was then allowed to fall into disrepair.

Dynamic Engineering recently took up the challenge to reconstruct the plant and to provide electricity for improved quality of life and economic and developmental activities in the Siparuni Sub-Region of Region Eight.

Tumatumari Hydro electric plant on the cards

April 25, 2013, By KNews, Filed Under News, Source

 

The Hydro plant at Tumatumari is very much on the cards. Managing Director of Dynamic Engineering Mr.Lloyd Rose, said last week that arrangements are being finalized for the commencement of the project in the second half of this year.

He promised to release more details on the arrangements for the construction of the hydroelectric facility on his return from Honduras, but stressed,”Dynamic Engineering is in the final stages of preparation for the reconstruction of the hydro at Tumatumari. The hydro is definitely coming up.”

 

The rapids at Tumatumari and remains of the historic Tumatumari Hydro plant which supplied electricity from the late 1950s to the 1980s.

 

Mr. Rose said that Mahdia will be one of the beneficiaries of electricity provided by the reconstructed hydroelectric facility.

Mark Crawford, Region Eight Chairman, recently stated that the provision of electricity via the Tumatumari hydro plant is the most feasible solution for Mahdia and neighbouring communities.

He made the comment in relation to rationing of electricity by Mahdia Power and Light Company which many residents were finding to be extremely inconveniencing.

Crawford said that with hydro power from Tumatumari, some expected benefits are reduced electricity costs, reduced greenhouse gases (emission), saved foreign exchange on over 180 barrels of fuel monthly that is needed for the large generator at the Mahdia power company, and a more reliable supply of electricity.

“I believe that no effort should be spared by the government to assist the developers of the Tumatumari hydroelectricity since it will benefit the interior tremendously,” he said.

The hydro power plant at Tumatumari was constructed utilizing the rapids of the Potaro River near Tumatumari in the late 1950s by the British Guiana Consolidated Gold Fields and the Potaro Electric Company.

The plant was used to provide electricity for the gold mining operations of that company. The Tumatumari hydro plant provided electricity up to as late as the 1980s but was then allowed to fall into disrepair.

Dynamic Engineering recently took up the challenge to reconstruct the plant and to provide electricity for improved quality of life and economic and developmental activities in the Siparuni Sub-Region of Region Eight.

Mr Demerara_Guy that does that prove it can only supply Region 8. You were Mr Burnham's "specialist" engineer on that original attempt. Why did it fail? 

Know the pertinent facts of the issues.

It is your choice to prove/show that re-development of the Tumatumari hydroelectric project can serve Guyana's needs.

Those who know the issues are aware that re-development of the Tumatumari project will be for local use.

slightly more harsh than my "nancy story" but all the same.

Mr DG how many MW will Tumatumari generate?

It is an extremely important quality for a person to know know facts and issues.

You have a penchant to ask questions on almost everything, thus exhibiting the qualities of knowing extremely little of the issues.

Who is more credible?  Halcrow, a UK based internationally recognized engineering consultancy group who did a scientific study or Delgado5 a blogger who Tony the PNC crook Vieira claimed is an engineer. 

This is the type of bottom house debate that d2 loves, however he has credibility since it is alleged that he has a pee pee problem and intense knowledge of "slow flow" ahahaha

Mr liar. Veria is no friend of mine and I know of no blogger called Delgado. I know little of the feasibility of the Tumatumari  region but the fact it exists in a steeper river valley with possibility for many times more the water retention in a reservoir than Amalia is worth looking at.

Mr DG my teach did say I like to ask questions. I don't know the issues pertaining Tumatumari. How many MWs will Tumatumari produce? Thank you Sir. 

An informed individual asks a few pertinent questions.

An uninformed person, posing as an intellectual, asks an abundance of questions.

Sorry Sir. My teacher told me not to shy away from asking questions. I concede I'm uninformed. Please answer whether Tumatumari produces relative to Amaila? Thank you Sir.

Your choice to continue close interactions with your teacher, seek information independently, or remain unaware of issues.

Ah STFU and answer the question. Are you that demented?

It looks like Mr Demerara_Guy is correct. Tumatumari can only supply local community. They can produce 2MW. 

The production of Tumatumari hydroelectric project is much less than 2mw because of the age and neglect of the works, variations of flows, the gaps in the structures and other factors.

Did not the oracle at Delphi declared Socrates to be the wisest man? Is that not borne out from the fact that we honor his insight by teaching all our freshman the Apology, Crito, Phaedo etc? in philosophy 101? What was his method again? ...the maeutic method his strategy...a birthing strategy into wisdom? What is he known for not incessant questioning?

As Mr T said, Pity the fool....more the old fool!

Here's the conclusion from a presentation by Veecock. 

MR. MAURICE VEECOCK
SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY

CONCLUSION
I will conclude with the following points:
1. Develop Amaila to provide at-site power (100–150)
MW.
2.Construct a dam upstream of the Kaieteur Falls and
divert the flow of the Potaro River into the Amaila
reservoir through a saddle between the two watersheds
so as to supplement the low flow conditions.
3.Release water over the Kaieteur falls so as to preserve
its beauty.

4.Construct the Tumatumari Power station.

5.Investigate and construct if feasible the Chi-Chi diversion

Yet again, Danyael prances and admiring himself in front of the mirror.

Maurice Veecock presented some options for hydroelectric power developments in Guyana.

After assessing the the various completed studies; copies and reports for about 70 sites are in the Office of the Prime Minister; the approach taken is to develop the Amaila Hydroelectric power proposal.

This is what I thought, however note that the afc/pnc contingent have suddenly embraced a blogger called delgado5, as per Tony Vieira.  Suddenly Tumutamari is more feasible than Amelia. These folks led by d2 are really bottom fishers, they jump at any opportunity to deny the nation progress. 

Tumatumari hydroelectric project can be upgraded to provide electricity for the local area and its redevelopment on the the overall needs of Guyana.

My reports on this and other projects are among the numerous ones in the office of the Prime Minister.

One does not have to reach deep to find sources of complaints for the folks in office. Their corrupt practices is their cream so it is at the top.  Where is it said that there is a preference of one location over the other. The point is one can see from a relief map that a reservoir will be larger in the Tunmutamari region. And it is self evident it never dries out. That alone suggests the watershed receives more run off there. I do not know anything of the two areas but we should know of Amalia since they almost had  a plant there. That we do not know again reflects on the PPP secret plans for everything

And you and delgado5 know this from examining a relief map while top engineering firms in the world and qualified engineers show Amelia as the more feasible and longer term solution. Now you will tell us you are an engineer with experience in hydro. I rest my case. 

What did the "top" engineering firm know? Let us know also. That is the point. There is always mention of who knows what but no one has ever posted the critical information necessary for even dotish you to write the shit you write.. You have no case. BTW Sith never built a plant on their own.

One does not need to be a practicing engineer to comment on a project. I do know I have more of a grounding in the matter than you so if that is a necessary criteria to comment then you ought to sit down. You already demonstrated you know little of math.

Unlike your ramblings, they know the details of the issues.

mr hydro engineer, the "Tumatumari hydroelectric project" you're making such an effort pouring bucketfulls of scorn upon is not the one discussed in Tony Vieira's letter

when yuh arms get weary clubbing this pathetic straw man . . . come on down

You are absolutely "correct" ... he was referring to the Tumatumari hydroelectric project built at Kakaburri creek.

While De Amaila Hydro_Seed

that now Dry.....

will supply the rest of Guyana

plus overseas

diversionary nonsense from a weak minded, ethically challenged low performer

pay attention fool . . . THIS is the [envisioned] "Tumatumari hydroelectric project" Vieira/Delgado5 is talking about:

". . . It [Tumatamaturi catchment area] is sufficient to erect a 40-feet high dam to maintain a reservoir of only 35 feet deep.

All the water flow of the entire length of the Amaila River plus the water flow of the entire length of the Potaro River merge into one powerful flow before reaching the Tumatumari Falls. A regular and steady supply of water is guaranteed to maintain the level of the reservoir even through the dry period. So there is no necessity to have an oversized reservoir.”

if u think they are talking about 2MW, then u are a bigger jackass than even your most stubborn detractors here could ever imagine

like i said . . . strawmen are easy

Apt description of yourself.

If capable, read and understand carefully my statements.

ummmmm . . . it would forestall further erosion of your self esteem if you look up and understand what "strawman" means here before u bray again

Yabba dabba dabba doooooooooooooooo

You are permanently confined in the zoo.