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TO THE BLOGMASTER
Before we have the Great Initials raise dem head I would wish to pause and say a rousing round of applause to the Blogmaster David ??
You are to be congratulated that you have kept the Beacon of the Lighthouse burning in these Cyberspace Corridors, saving many a mariner who would have been crushed on the ragged reefs in Bulbados, IN THE FACE OF ATTEMPTS BY THE CURRENT AG, ADRIEL DIMWIT & THE FORMER DALE SMILEY TEETS MARSHALL to close down BU.
You would have turned back the idiocy of these Cahill Nuts and have had the balls to stand up where many other Mamby Pamby menses would have faltered in their panties.
While I cannot speak for the quiet voices and the neutered of our cuntry, I pressume and believe that even though many of them do not know of you, you and your colleagues who assist you, in keeping this blog going, are to be lauded as the Knights of the Cyberspace Roundtable and you are the feared Knight who sits in the equivalent seat Perilous..
I tip my hat to you sir…
And remember what de ole man always says,
DO NOT DRINK FROM ANY GLASS YOU LEAVE AT ANY TABLE….OR EAT FROM ANY PLATE YOU TEK YOU EYES OFF…
Thanks Piece but remember it is a Collective.
Hear, hear to de ole man
Sometime earlier on this Blog I appealed to supporters of this Government to give us one or more overarching reason why, given what we now know of the inherent toxicity of the Cahill deal, 4 ministers would have cast prudence to the winds and signed an agreement with Cahill that not only ignored all standards of project development but suggested that the Government itself was being run by a set of neophytes (which they couldn’t be after 6 years in power) or that common sense had somehow escaped the entire lot.
Since no reason was advanced by their usual supporters on BU let me give my take on what might have informed that decision.
It was a product of hopelessness.
At that time things were very bad with the economy (and still are), the downgrades by the rating agencies had started, pensions were being provided by the Central Bank and the NIS, not from currency inflows or from our Reserves as would normally be the case. The foreign exchange situation was worsening. It was the worst of times (up to then).
Then Clare Cowan appeared with a deal that appeared to be the solution for our Economy. She would be putting 240 million US dollars into our economy and we wouldn’t have to pay one cent. They jumped for it without strategically thinking of all possible outcomes, including the most likely one that it was merely a pipe dream. Technical advice on the project was not sought, after all surviving the Economic doldrums we are in far outweighed everything else, even due diligence and the following of tried and true procedures for such megaprojects. Four brave Ministers signed on the dotted line. A couple of MInisters / High officials who would normally be mandated to sign on to such projects didn’t.
And here we now are.
The acceptance of the Cahill project was not necessarily a sign of corruption or venality in all of the signatories but of hope and desperation and thrashing around for anything that might work in our favour in our parlous situation, however far fetched and counter intuitive.
….. and overriding all this was the necessity to safeguard the pensions of the current political class and, to the extent possible, especially in the current aftermath, to protect the DLP.
But the cat is now out of the bag.
Who will bell it?
are-we-there-yet August 7, 2015 at 9:39 AM #
DD thinks you have hit the nail on the head.
BUT, respectfully suggests that:
“Four brave Ministers signed on the dotted line.”
Should have been:
“Four naive Ministers signed on the dotted line.”
DD;
Thanks for the correction,
Agreed.
For clarity
Whether it be $B700m or $US350m
The fact of the matter that the local economy will see very little if this while its being built.
Everything other than the concrete will be imported tax free.
Skilled labour will be imported tax free
The project management team will be 90% imported . tax free
All the process equipment will be imported . tax free
Steel tax free
Electrical tax free
Mechanical tax free
All statutory applications will be tax free
Water will be free
So where is the benefit to the locals they will be taxed as locals while the high rollers from overseas will be paid offshore .The only people who will make money are.the accommodation owners
700 hundred jobs my ass!!!!!
We will be lucky to see 60 to 80 local concrete and ground workers
If the chineese take this project they will import the majority of their skilled workers …………..
RastaR
Everything you say is probably correct if the Cahill thing were built.
But, Clare Clown is not going to find the investors and the thing is not going to happen,
So with all the media hype and the claims from the Canadian scammer
Where are all the investors promised
It’s been 2 months since the con artist said there were investors coming to the island
wHERE are THEY???????????
A blast from the past!
Some early salvos from the WtE battles.
Very Interesting reading of some of the antecedents to the WtE situation. I wonder if Clare Cowan was in touch with the Min of the Environment back then.
The above were discussions from mid 2011.
Some people have changed their views a bit in four years!
St George’s Dragon August 9, 2015 at 7:59 AM #
Some people have changed their views a bit in four years!
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in reference to the above link
some people are born hypocrites and bush shit plays that role to a “T”
Posted in the nation
Nothing in it that we don’t already know !!
This is all relevant information but its years to late ……
This is stuff we should all have been looking at well before we signed up to a nothing company to deliver a major contract with long term repercussions for our island and our children’s children
THE GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS proposes to enter a public/private partnership (PPP) agreement to establish a waste to energy plant based on plasma gasification technology. I feel compelled to contribute to the current debate and to assist in identifying some issues to be addressed in a national conversation as part of the project planning process.
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Notices around Barbados draw the attention of the public to three Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle). Some progress is being made in the re-cycling industries as items of value are being diverted from the waste stream. Barbados now seeks to embark on the fourth R, that is, recovery of energy from waste.
The adoption of the plasma gasification technology has the potential to displace some enterprises currently involved with the first three Rs. However, recovery by this method, once technically feasible, would be more effective than partial recovery associated with the potential recovery of methane gas from the landfill. However, there will always be need for some landfilling capability to allow for risks associated with the plasma gasification plant’s downtime and to provide capacity for the plant’s waste and items of low calorific value.
There are four critical elements in a waste to energy plant project: guarantee of appropriate quantity and quality of waste, acceptable calorific value (measurement of heating power) of the waste, favourable power purchasing agreement, technology appropriateness and efficiency of operations. These must be guaranteed in order for the plant to be viable. The historical data related to waste composition, generation and disposal can form the basis for projected quantities of waste and its calorific value. If for some reason the waste quantities and composition vary such that the calorific values are not achieved, then additional measures would have to be taken to guarantee availability of waste to feed the plant.
A favourable power purchasing agreement would also be critical to the success of the plant. If the Barbados Light and Power Company Limited (BL&P) is required to purchase the energy produced by the waste to energy plant then it would be important to consider the impact on BL&P’s operations and finances and to determine its overall viability based on the proposed PPP arrangement and probable variations of key variables such as fuel prices and reduction in the sales of its own power generation. BL&P is a mature utility with a good track record of reliability of supply. As renewable energy and energy efficiency projects continue to be implemented in Barbados there can be an impact on BL&P’s operating and financial model based on reduced electricity generation, distribution and sales.
The successful operation of the plant will be determined by its commercial, financial and technical feasibility and the management of its operating, legal, environmental and social risks. Who are the stakeholders? Everyone generates waste so everyone resident in Barbados is a stakeholder in solid waste management. In addition there are also local industrial, commercial and institutional stakeholders. Therefore, any major solid waste management project would require an appropriate public participation plan which could facilitate the wider conversation with the residents and commercial and institutional representatives, civil society, labour unions, scientific and professional societies and Government (and public officials).
All solid waste management projects require a full environmental impact assessment (EIA) which includes or is accompanied by a social impact assessment. The public would have to be appropriately informed about the project, its technical processes and options. They need to know about the environment, social and operating risks. Given the ongoing concern about public debt, they will also need to know about the financing arrangements (the associated credit risk), and the level of grant element of the proposed terms of the PPP. The grant element is defined as the difference between a loan’s nominal value (face value) and the sum of the discounted future debt service payments to be made by the borrower (present value), expressed as a percentage of the loan’s face value.
Once the public participation process is concluded and the agreed project issues and risks are summarised, the project would normally have to be adjusted to include the redesigned features. The residents of Arch Hall and surrounding districts will be paying close attention based more on their experiences with Mount Stinkeroo. They will be concerned about the extent to which dust particles and harmful compounds could escape from the plant. Even if the plant treats its emissions to acceptable levels, the question will be who will do the ongoing monitoring? In addition, against whose standards would the plant emissions be judged and regulated? The EIA should identify any potentially harmful emissions and clearly indicate how they will be addressed and monitored. Technical persons may still wish to discuss how we got to the stage of choosing a plasma gasification plant as the best project option.
Clairvair Squires is a resource economist with specific experience and post-graduate qualification in solid waste management and coastal zone management. He is a former chief of the Environment Unit of the Caribbean Development Bank and a former member of The International Panel of Experts on Solid Waste Management. The final part will be published next week.
– See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/70610/waste-energy#sthash.K3IYDenf.dpuf
It would appear that we are letting this sham deal fade from public focus !!!!!
The Canadian carpetbagger is thinking and hoping if she remains quite and let’s the dust settle long enough we will revert to type and forget about the fact that the deal was a fake from the start as she continues in her search for unwitting investors to buy a lemon of a deal from her to line her empty pockets with the ilgotten gains
This deal was sold on plasma technology and we all know that it will not fly .
Surely she must realise that any investor looking at this will need more than her lying words to make them part with their money
17months and nothing but lies and bills to show for it.
Shameless to the end this woman’s lies have no end .
There is a disturbing link with Barbados in this story involving yet another corrupt Canadian company. Our media has to be more vigilant.
Here is another Canada Drugs story – April 15, 2015
DD is sure the Barbados authorities are investigating and will take whatever action id necessary to ensure that Barbados reputation as a place to do business is not tarnished.
Ya sure
It’s old news:
https://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/counterfeit-cancer-drug-avastin-barbados-in-vortex-of-international-investigation/
Anyway, what’s happening with Cahill?
I’m sure the Canadian scammer is working hard trying to get some investor to buy into her bull crap .
We need the government to cansel this contract on the basis that she has not fulfilled the terms of the contract in that she has produced nothing of value in terms of the documentation needed to scope this project after 17 months !!!!
The question is is the waste study she kept dragging about a few weeks ago the only part of the feed completed to date???
If it takes her 17 months to complete what should have taken 4 to 6 weeks to get done then she clearly has no experience in designing/ building / operating any sort of plant let alone a Plasma gasification plant which our ministers have signed without the proper procurement review and award process.
Any investor foolish enough to buy this thing from her and believe me that’s her game here needs to understand that they will regret buying a contract that cannot be fulfilled and the money the pay her will be sunk money which she will never be able to repay once the old guard team are paid for the services the supplied to her and have yet to be paid for
We will wait and see if she starts to build in September as stated.
She can’t build on land water and money she doesn’t have!!!!
It’s an international disgrace
A bit of history on Clare Cowan
For those interested, Google “Clare Cowan Venture Exchange Network”
Click on Venture Exchange Network Announces Formation of Policy …
Which includes:
“Cowan notes that traditional venture capital investors are concentrating on investment opportunities in the Western hemisphere, especially in today’s risk averse market. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development confirms this trend, noting that total Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) dropped more than 50 percent in 2001. In addition, between 1994 and 2000, developing nations’ share of total FDI decreased from 41 percent to 19 percent.
“When any nation loses three-quarters of its annual FDI, it’s a crisis. For developing nations, it’s a disaster,” said Cowan. “We are seeking to reverse that trend by tearing down the barriers for venture capital investments into developing countries. The underlying principle remains that only profitable activity will attract venture capital investment in developing nations. Success will be predicated upon private sector participants realizing positive returns from their investments.”
So, in 2003 Clare Cowan was tearing down the barriers for venture capital investments into developing countries via her company Venture Exchange Network.
In 2015 she is has focussed her sights, and is trying to attract venture capital investment to fund a WTE project in Barbados.
DD has been unable to find details of any successful ventures facilitated by Venture Network Exchange.
DD expects she will be equally successful in finding venture capital for the Barbados WTE plant.
The only way she will get this financed is to get the contract changed from plasma !!!!
Assuming there’s a change mechanism in the contract she will have to apply for that change
If the gang of 4 have any sense they will think twice before allowing this change
Venture exchange network have never achieved anything other than be an spv for her skimming money from other people
Just like Cahill international
A scam to pay her mortage on the Four seasons condo
Just like the funds from CEB
All a scam to pay for her secret life
Mockingbird August 12, 2015 at 3:27 PM #
Secret life indeed.
Mockingbird
A scam to pay her mortage on the Four seasons condo
Is this it – #4803 50 Yorkville – Listed for sale at $6,800,000
http://harveykalles.com/listing/4803-50-yorkville-ave-toronto-ontario-c3250784/
An audit of the bank transactions on Cahill Barbados needs to be called for.
There are no audited accounts for this shell company WHY ????????
My money is on payments out are mortage payments for 4803 at the four seasons
That’s a good chunk of the $5million covered that she says she has paid out on this project
ScamsUrus is a much more appropriate name for her company name.
And now she has to sell 4803 cause she cannot pay the mortgage payments, the $3,500 monthly maintenance charges, the $3,600 monthly real estate taxes, the electric bill and of course the maid service.
Mockingbird
A domain search shows Cahillinternational.com domain was created 2004-10-05 by Clare Cowan, of 267 Forest Hill Rd, Toronto, Ontario, M5P2N3.
Telephone number shown in the domain search, 416-787-9107, appears still to be attached to C. Cowan, of 267 Forest Hill Rd, Toronto, Ontario.
Perhaps she lives at 267 Forest Hill Rod. and #4803 50 Yorkville is an investment property – now for sale for the past two months
Any comment?
So Cahill is a company with no track record and reputedly no assets.
They tell us they have paid $5 million in project costs so far. Before we get too carried away with following a trail of payments on property in Canada (and as has been suggested – oiling the wheels of commerce in Barbados) perhaps we should look at where the money comes from.
Who is funding Cahill?
Cahill is a private company, its funding can be from anywhere. Unless the principals of Cahill declare the information how does one find out?
Why not ask the government to make the agreement with Cahill public and transparent ?
@Hants
What do you think the protest in Barbados has been about for the last two months? Barbadians have been clamouring for the silent minister Lowe to open his damn mouth to frontally address the issue. They obviously plan to string Barbadians along but this issue will not go away and has possibly superseded CLICO as the issue to hammer the nail in the DLP coffin.
How can a contract signed 17 months ago that has not advanced or progressed not have some sort of breach ???
Either the government or Cahill must have a breach they are hiding ….
In my long career in engineering and construction I have never been on a project with 0.00% progress in 17 months.
Why has it taken 17 months to do a waste study.???
Where is alter NRG in their “PDP. They are the plasma technology provider for this project ???
Where is the EPC contractor,??? The plasma gasifer is about 30 % of the equipment needed to make this project work have they been chosen and if so they should be here looking at the site , the roads, local capability and specifically local engineering offices for civil and structural work???? Where are the ” boots on the ground” surveying and doing labour surveys???
Where are all the applications for permits and exemptions
?????
All of the above is normal first 90 day stuff
Clearly this won’t be happening anytime soon as this Cowan woman has neither the knowhow or the money to progress this project .
That in itself has to be a material breach.
“September start for construction ”
What a joke ………
What happened to the PM investigation ????
Let’s face it people if we has signed up for an incinerator 17 months ago it would be built and operating now .
Not what we want but most certainly complete by now
This is a waiting game for the Cowan woman until she can find a project developer to advance the project with their money and pay her a tidy sum for 5 signatures on a contract that cannot be built in its current structure.
Buyer beware you are buying a pig in a poke with this one
The sugar factory will be up and operational before this pig gets to be built.
5 more years of land fill?? 5 more years of mount stinkaroo ??
How many months of this brainless government and this canadian carpet bagger????
Off to work now to pay my taxes
To pay for this “do nothing” government who are playing with all our futures .
While the Canadian bitch sits above it all looking down on us as if we were dog dirt on her shoe
We have dealt with the September matter. At the recent Open House Cowan clarified the site specific EIA should be ready by September.
Again she is deluded
It will take a minimum of 6 months to get the site specific EIA anywhere near completion and that doesn’t include the public consultations process
It’s now mid august
Either she has lied about the progress on the project or she has a bunch of aliens beaming down and doing the work
She haven’t dealt with it at all seems to me
What we have dealt with is she is a compulsive liar and a fraud.
Don’t you need an engineering team to do an EIA????
She clearly doesn’t have an real engineering team
Technipbenelux were the EPC contractor that came to the island a year ago with OSL her owners engineer at the time
Where are they now Waldo????
Gone to the winds
She has lost her entire original team …
All known company’s with reputations to uphold . she is now left with a bunch of yes men who presumably are on a promise of a piece of the pie when and if she can punt it to a developer to try and pick up the pieces
Again buyers beware
Mare sure your money comes with a refund clause.
Your DD will be eye opening
@Mokingbird
What is the role of Alter NRG?
Alter NRG
Is the supplier of the plasma gasifer
Canadian bases now owned by harvester a huge Chinese conglomerate.
NRG were on the island last year also
Now they have gone all quite.
Without NRG there can be no EIA
Without a contract NRG will not start a PDP their front end package which is critical to the engineering for the EIA
None of this is in place
She is an out and out liar
This is a pure and simple SCAM to rob foolish Bajans of a few million dollars more before the treasury shut shop….
Steupsss…wuh everybody does it – especially if dem white….so why not this woman too…
If she is a liar – she is in good company with our damn PM and his ministers.
Shiite man!!!
How it is possible for NATIONAL LEADERS to stand up in public and LIE again and again ….without any damn shame… is WELL beyond Bushie’s understanding….
NOTHING that these people have said seem to be reliable…. NOTHING.
.. from simple shit like making a VAT increase ‘temporary’….
.. to the ‘promise’ to NCC workers that the ‘Tribunal will meet soon’
.. to the opening of the St John Polyclinic
.. tax refunds being ‘stuffed into envelopes…’
.. Almond being knocked down and rebuilt
.. Sam Lords to be revived
.. A new hospital at Wotton
.. on and on with a lotta shiite lies….
Wait a damn minute though…..
Don’t we have an opposition with nearly 50% of the damn seats in parliament?
…or are they silent because they are EXACTLY the same shiite..?
@ mockingbird
You are bang on the money …….
Do the potential investors realise that this thing is a non starter
NRG are struggling with their only 1000 TPD gasifier on teeside in the UK
And they are not putting up any process guarantees on that project
It’s way behind schedule on #1 and #2 is struggling big time
1 gasifier for 1000 tons a day is absurd
Unproven untested!!!! the Gob must be crazy
Any new investor will most certainly need to change out the technology to a more conventional proven tried and tested technology which will change the basis of the original awarded contract
Which means the contract will have to be materially changed which means it should go back out to tender to multiple suppliers .
OR will the necessary changes to a bad contract be kept secret again and the people of Barbados be kept in the dark
What about Hart?
Hart?????????
Someone needs to look at this woman’s history …
She has conned her way in and out of business for the past 15+ years
She is the Walter Mitty of the” making deals world”
Seventh heaven. Properties lawsuit
Liz Spencer lawsuit
Ridgemount group lawsuit
How did the government get in bed with this criminal
@ David. This is an examination directed at all the Negative Nabobs and Yard Ducks.. It is not an open Book exam. The answers must come from the minds of those being examined.
Question One (1). Who is funding The Future Centre Trust?
Question Two (2). Is there a connection between the plans of the backers of the Future Centre Trust to build their own WTE facility, and the attempts to sabotage ANY plans, or attempts, by the present government to construct a WTE facility?
Question Three (3). Are there ANY foreign entities backing there Future Centre Trust, who have expressed interest in the introduction of their own WTE facility, in addition to the introduction of their plans for recycling plants in Barbados?
Question Four (4). Does the Future Centre Trust submit audited Financial Statements to anyone? Do they pay any income taxes?
Question Five (5). What Specific Plans; apart from those already in train; (Recycling by B’s Recycling, Garbage separation by SBRC, etc); do the Future Centre Trust have for the disposal of Solid Waste, in Barbados? Disposal in Land fill does not qualify as an answer.
Question Six (6). Is there a connection between SBRC and Future Centre Trust? In a video presented b y Future Centre Trust on Recyclables, SBRC and and its products were advertised. What is the connection?
While Clare Clown and her pals at Jacob Securities are searching around the globe for investors for the $700 million to fund the Cahill WTE plant, in which they describe Barbados as a developed country, the Minister of Finance is calling on the country’s international creditors to “grant us no less a favour than that which was given to the HIPC [Highly Indebted Poor Countries] during the 1990s”
See: http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2015/08/13/no-wolves/
“The Minister of Finance told delegates attending today’s meeting that it was not enough for the international community to speak “almost despairingly” about the negative debt matrices, “as if pouring scorn on us for daring to pursue the development of our people and societies”.
“And it is certainly not enough to keep sending missions of sterilized technocrats and even academics to study the situation, and if we are lucky, publish a book to which we get entitled to a free copy. That’s not what the Caribbean needs. What we need is for the hemispheric and global community to act in a way demonstrative of their exclaimed but unrealized desire to help the region’s countries deal with the elephant in the room,” Sinckler said.
“Don’t just throw the zoo-keeper to the wolves of international financial capital systems such as the IMF for yet another version of the visionless and impractical adjustment programmes. Rather, grant us no less a favour than that which was given to the HIPC [Highly Indebted Poor Countries] during the 1990s.”
He said the region would consider anything less as an abandonment of small and vulnerable economies by the international community.
Pointing out that the Caribbean was perhaps one of the most disaster prone regions in the world, Sinckler noted that economies were “very open” to international trade and highly vulnerable to natural disasters and economic shocks.”
DD suggests the zoo-keeper’s comments will cause potential investors to view Barbados as a Highly Indebted Poor Country, and a plasma gasification plant in a country highly vulnerable to natural disasters and economic shocks too risky in which to invest.
And to add insult to injury
The gang of 4 allow the Canadian carpetbagger to sell on a contract that we will be paying for for years to come if she is successful .
How can we sit idly by and allow these idots do this to us
Mockingbird
No worry – She will never be able to sell the contract after the zoo-keeper’s (MOF’s) comments..
You’re assuming the investors pick up on the mof’s blunder
Before they sign up
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