Advocacy Director
Future Centre Trust
The environmental NGO Future Centre Trust as part of its mandate dispatched a letter on July 3rd 2013 to the Permanent Secretary Ministry Of Environment seeking disclosure on the proposed Waste To Energy Plant. It’s disingenuous to hear the Governor of the Central Bank and others including the Minister of the Environment speak as if this proposed plant is a done deal. Thus the questions beg why all the secrecy and lack of disclosure. Perhaps arrogance has diminished reason. It’s hoped that good governance and commonsense will mean something to those mandated to look after our affairs. The onus of disclosure and public consultation lies in Principle 10 as agreed to by the government of Barbados in 1992 during the Rio conference but never made law.
For the sake of future generations and the possible health risk associated with any breakdown of this Waste To Energy Plant we beg for public consultation and disclosure. It’s also our intention to seek collective support on the need for disclosure on this plant from, UWI Student Guild, Cancer Society, BAMP and residence of Sandy Lane as well as environs.
We don’t seek confrontation all we seek respectfully is dialogue as enshrined under our constitution.
The blogmaster invites you to join and add value to the discussion.