No News About Cahill Energy and Waste to Energy–How Will B’s Compete?
Interesting report out of Canada which details that Plasco Energy missed another deadline set by the city of Ottawa to build a waste-to-energy plant. The company entered an agreement in 2011 to “construct a 300-tonne-a-day gasification plant” by 2016 – see report Plasco misses 3rd deadline to find financing for waste plant.
The Barbados government entered a similar agreement with Cahill Energy in March 2014 to build a US$240 million (approximately) gasification plant, projected to provide up to 25% of Barbados’ total energy needs. A press release suggests the proposed Barbados plant will have a capacity of 30 to 35 megawatts.
At a Town Hall meeting in July 2014 which was attended by CEO of Cahill Energy Claire Cowan, interested parties confirmed the Environmental Impact Study sould have been made available to the public pursuant to the Town Planning regulation “in about three weeks” – several months have passed since the promise. At a recent press conference minister Denis Lowe shared little information about the status of the project.
Recently B’s Bottle and Metal Recycling plant received approval from Town Planning department (government) to relocate his business. The length of time the application for approval took to process, and the obvious political hulahoops he and his partners were made to endure, makes a mockery of whether business facilitation is at the required standard to foster entrepreneurship in Barbados.
Now that B’s Recycling is expected to be a key player in the waste disposal sector in a year or two, curious Barbadians are left to ponder how is little Barbados expected to product enough garbage to satisfy the gasification plant. B’s Recycling and the others. If the plant is projected to burn 600 tonnes daily operating on a 24 hour cycle there is immediately a supply side problem. Unfortunately minister Denis Lowe and others in his government feel no obligation to explained the Cahill Energy transaction to taxpayers. At the Town Hall held at Vaucluse the CEO of Cahill Energy deflected several questions to government. So far SILENCE!
As if roused from a deep slumber we have had to endure a lot of Denis Lowe in recent days. Why did the government give the Bynoes so much of the run-around compared to Cost-U-Less – a user of foreign exchange – we are left to guess. Were the Bynoes unwilling to pass a berry under the table we wonder?
Waste disposal is part of government’s big plan to make Barbados energy efficient and all appended to it. Barbadians deserve to be treated with respect by being allowed frequent and content filled communication. So far history will not treat this Stuart led government kindly given its unwillingness to effectively communicate with the electorate it serves.
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Barbados Underground 
Well written and pointed. A minister in Gambia was just jailed for nonfeasance due to his failure to report malfeasance and misfeasance in his Ministry. The Cahill WTE plant if ever it happens will be one of the biggest white elephants in our history. Thank god ministers and bag handlers who facilitate money laundering don’t don’t exist in Barbados if the absence of prosecution by the FIU and DPP is taken as an indicator. So we still have a lot to be thankful for as we rank low on the Bribery Index!
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http://www.waste-management-world.com/articles/2014/08/20m-waste-to-energy-deal-sealed-on-caribbean-s-nevis-island.html
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Listen here man, Cahill go their ‘fishing license’ and are now busy whoring it around the international financial market hoping to catch an unsuspecting financier.
THAT IS ALL. IN THE MEANTIME THE GOB AND SSA WILL END UP WITH MILLIONS AND MILLIONS……….MAYBE TENS OF MILLIONS IN FEES BEING RACKED UP AND CONVENIENTLY PAID OVERSEAS IN US$ OR EUROS.
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Looking at the St Kitts waste to energy project Hants posted the link for, the providers of that plant don’t seem to have done one before either. Looks like a Caribbean-wide problem.
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There is little information to be found about Cahill..or their CEO for that matter.This is their first project of this size.Government has done 0 due diligence on them, but yet signed off on a &240 million contract…what a joke.
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@ yatinkiteasy January 6, 2015 at 11:17 AM #
“There is little information to be found about Cahill..or their CEO for that matter.This is their first project of this size.Government has done 0 due diligence on them, but yet signed off on a &240 million contract…what a joke.”
As far as I have seen this is Cahill’s first project of any size.
But, not to worry – DD is sure that being prudent managers of the taxpayers money, it was a condition of awarding the $240 million contract that Cahill post a Bid Bond and a Performance Bond
Yeh – right
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@Dr. Tennyson Joseph
Show thyself
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Joseph say”This anonymity removes any self-regulating constraint on the blogger,”
Oh how they wish that we no name bloggers would continuously perform orally on the rear end of the elite who pillage and plunder under the cloak of respectability.
Painful as it is for some there is a lot of truth on the blogs as there is in Bajan rumshops.
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Yeh-right?
But are these the same geniuses who committed to and implemented a layoff programme of over 3000 public sector workers without ensuring that there would be enough funds available to pay them their statutory severance and unemployment benefits and are now seeking to take the steps that should have been taken over a year ago to regularise and secure the necessary funding?
What ever happened to the Dear Loving Party?
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Mr Joseph, I am disappointed in your article.
The blogs have proven to be akin of the traditional media and is just a carry-on of its hypocrisy.It has proven the traditional media not always to be an automatic guarantor of democracy, nor profoundly educated, nor well informed, nor balanced, or critical and socially responsible. One television station in Barbados perhaps? The many political pawns of newspapers littered through the Caribbean?
I would hazard a guess why blogs might be so bothersome:
“One of the dangers of the current period is that the technology of mass communication HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE HANDS OF LAY PEOPLE who lack the ethical and moral training to appreciate the consequences of such awesome power and responsibility”
Not the message, but the messenger,anonymous or not.
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just like thatcher having secret voting instead of a show of hands allowed the silent majority to not be afraid of the bully’s that always seem to get their way in unions
The blog keeps these I am smarter than you politicians and scoundrels in the public eye and shows them what they do, may not go unchallenged or at least shown in the light of day.
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Well said Lawson.
Only lied, deceitful, brass bowls with secret, hidden agendas need to be fearful of the blogs. OF COURSE there will be persons who will use the opportunity to snipe, lie and expose dirt…. wuh shiite man, if you can’t stand that sort of heat, just keep your tail outta the kitchen.
ANYONE worth their salt can tek a little whacking. Um is only wastefoops that expect to go through life surrounded by damn pissy “YES-MEN” and mindless yardfowls that can’t stand a whack….
…Think when Bushie turn on the whacker he does only whack the thorns and bush? every shiite does get whack…. BUT the good lawn grass can tek it….
Wuh if bushie come here and say that Sir Cave is only focused on satisfying HIS big ego, …that only gives him an incentive AND AN OPPORTUNITY to respond and to show why this is misguided, malicious or just plain wrong.
….if he don’t have the ability to refute personal attacks he should NOT be holding that damn job anyhow….. Too many damn sissies who lack balls sitting in critical positions and causing us ALL to get French Connected by the REAL bullies out there in this world.
Classic case in point is sissy Peter Wickham.
Two little whacks and he run off BU like a damn bare-neck chicken…
…and then play he pontificating at VOB radio where he can hide behind a switch…
brass bowl coward…!!!
These university people like Joseph who, like lawyers and pollsters, never really operated in the REAL world, are wont to come with these shiite postulations that they read in some book or the other…. steupsss
Wuh um is Wickham saying now….? that he want the Yankees to sanction Barbados unless we all start bulling….?
steupsss…
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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/61672/count
POLITICAL SCIENTIST Peter Wickham says he would support sanctions by the United States against Barbados and other Caribbean territories whose legislation marginalises those in same-sex relationships by keeping offences such as buggery on their statutes.
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http://business.financialpost.com/2015/01/08/nautilus-to-back-construction-of-24-solar-power-projects-in-ontario/
solar is getting better.
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A little bit of good news.
“Clarke explained that in August 2014, the fuel adjustment was 46.35 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), while this month it was 22.75 cents per kWh – the lowest since June 2009 – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/62016/electricity-cost#sthash.O1sIFy8j.dpuf
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Dr Lowe is back in the Advocate
All on stream for Waste to Energy Plant
3/19/2015
EVERYTHING is on stream and running smoothly, to ensure that Barbados can get its promised $240 million Plasma Gasification Waste to Energy Plant.
Word of this came recently from Minister of Environment and Drainage, Dr. Denis Lowe, as he spoke with the media, on numerous environmental matters.
It was in March last year that Guernsey-based Cahill Energy announced that it had signed a historic agreement with the Barbados government, to build and operate a leading edge clean energy plant, which would be located at Vaucluse in St Thomas.
Cahill Energy representatives noted at the time that the company would invest up to $240 million (USD) in the proposed plant, creating up to 650 jobs under a 30-year contract.
Giving an update on the project this month, Minister Lowe acknowledged that there was “a little challenge” at one point, but noted that the process is once again, running smoothly.
“The process is coming along well. The engineers (and other representatives) from the company are on the ground looking at the environmental impact assessment, and we are (completing) the purchase of the land.
“We had a little challenge there at one point, but we are now getting that in place and everything is on stream,” Dr. Lowe pointed out.
Responding to suggestions that there might not be enough waste material to maintain the plant, as materials are at present being redirected to recycling companies, Dr. Lowe noted that he does not foresee a problem. If the need arises, Government would engage players in the renewable energy sector, to ensure that some of the waste directed to them can be redirected to the plant, in a way that is advantageous to them, he said.
“All waste, recyclable and otherwise, falls under the remit of the Sanitation Service Authority. However, if it comes to the point where we have to redirect waste from one of the independent waste handlers, then we will do that, of course, not to their disadvantage,” Lowe stated.
“We pay SBRC (the Sustainable Barbados Recycling Centre) a tipping fee for our waste, and if we had to go to B’s Recycling to ask him to send his waste our side, obviously we would have to make sure he is fairly compensated, based on what he is doing now. (However) it may save him some shipping costs if we ask him, rather than send it to China etc., to send to us,” Lowe commented.
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Why do we allow this minister to get away from stating specifics? With so much money in play why are taxpayers deliberately kept in the dark?
On Thursday, 19 March 2015, Barbados Underground wrote:
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