Plasma Gasification Update Required Minister Denis Lowe!
Submitted by Colin Wakefield
Dear Sir,
Teesside. Plant
I have attached a newspaper article, which has a potential impact on Barbados. Firstly I should explain my own interest in both Barbados and the content of the article. My family and I have been very lucky to visit the beautiful island of Barbados over a number of years.
I have worked my entire working life in the UK defence industry, but have been involved in local politics in my home town. On one of our holidays I met Major Sam Headley and had various political discussions and have kept in touch over recent years, Christmas cards etc. My own interest in politics grew from a major environmental issue, which has negatively impacted on my home town of Houghton-le-Spring in the North East of England, unfortunately all the residents concerns with the landfill have materialized, dreadful smells, vermin and our greatest fear, pollution of our drinking water aquifers, which has now happened.
Since 1997 I have lead the residents fight against this environmental disaster and we have had some success, but sadly could not stop the landfill going ahead and take no pleasure in saying ‘we told you so’. As an engineer I was keen to support proper waste disposal/treatment rather than just saying ‘not in our backyard’ and have become involved in promoting better waste treatment and disposal of the what we all produce.
During a holiday in Barbados about three years ago I began to wonder how Barbados planned to dispose of the islands waste stream in the future (sad I know). After a little research I found the proposed plasma gasification plant proposal was well underway.
Through Major Sam Headley, I made contact with Mr Bizzy Williams, who I have kept informed of progress (or not!) of two very large plasma gasification plants, some twenty miles from my home on Teesside. Plant 2 was suspended just before Christmas 2015 and yesterday it was announce that Air Products are planning to walk away from the development, I have attached the article from today’s Newcastle Journal.
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I continue to work part time in the defence industry, however the company I work for has an environmental division, which has just completed a large autoclave waste treatment facility, which in my view should form part of a better waste solution, more suited to Barbados and given the impending failure of the Teesside plasma gasification plant, are you aware of any change to the to the planned plasma gasification plant in Barbados, which now appears to have become very political.
I would be grateful if you could provide an update on the state of play with the plasma gasification plant planned for Barbados.
Barbados Underground 
Ok….let’s see.
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One can only wonder how the cackling hens will respond now that this technology has been exposed as suspect, and this includes the ones in Cabinet.
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We will see who is the first blind partisan to defend the defenceless. The problem is that some are seeking to salvage modules from Teeside for a scaled Barbados projects for they think Bajans are too docile to fight tooth and nail against the power brokers.
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” Products pulls out of Tees Valley EfWs
4 APRIL, 2016BY ROB PRESTON
Air Products is quitting the energy-from waste (EfW) sector and has pulled the plug on its two major gasification facilities on Teesside.
A statement from the company’s base in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Air Products said that exiting the sector would cost between $900m and $1bn (£700m) in writing down its EfW assets.
The initial facility in the north-east TV1 (pictured) was expected to be completed this year while the identical plant TV2, believed to be 72% complete, was mothballed in November – attributed to the first plant taking longer than expected.
Now the firm has decided “it is no longer in the best interest of the company and its shareholders to continue the Tees Valley projects”.
It said testing and analysis indicated that “additional design and operational challenges would require significant time and cost to rectify”.
The firm said it “will work to optimise the cash value of its investments” but does not specify how this will be done.
It hopes that exiting the EfW business “will allow the company to direct its resources to its core business of industrial gases”.
Air Products chief executive Seifi Ghasemi said: “We pushed very hard to make this new EfW technology work and I would like to thank the team who worked so diligently.
“We appreciate the hard work of our employees and contractors at the site, and certainly understand their disappointment in this decision. We are also disappointed with the outcome.”
The company said there are currently approximately 125 employees at the site and the business office, as well as approximately 20 contractors.
Unite regional officer Steve Cason described the announcement as a “massive surprise” and was hoping to find out more at a meeting with the facility manager Andrew Connolly.
In March, the company denied Unite claims that TV-1 site had been mothballed, saying ”Air Products continues to work on starting up the TV-1 facility, targeting the end of this year for commercial operation. Some contract workers have been released, but this is consistent with the type of work currently being carried out at TV-1.
”As previously stated, we have identified learnings that are being implemented into the TV-1 facility and we are currently in a period with higher engineering, design, and procurement activity and less activity in the field. We expect the activity in the field to again pick-up in a few months.”
Both facilities have been designed to generate 49.9MW of renewable electricity a year, using 350,000 tonnes of non-recyclable residual waste.”
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If the commissions have already been deposited into their Panamanian accounts, well this band of pirates will press merrily on with their dastardly plan. Be reminded that the IMF, Moody’s and scores of world class economist too numerous to mention have expressed professional opinions on the Barbados economy all denied and ridiculed by the dazzlingly brilliant MoF and our illustrious PM. Do you believe that just because wiser heads have scrapped the plant in the UK that our brilliant dummies will abort their plans?
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Air products current CEO made it clear 18 months ago that he didn’t want to be in the power generation game and wanted to focus on its core business of industrial gases.
Let also be clear on the primary intent of the TV1/TV2 plants was NOT to generate power but to look at hydrogen generation and other byproduct gases.
Air products have never been in the project delivery business and failed miserably in executing these projects.
The biggest issue they had was lack of joined up design on the gasifer and the balance of plant. They failed to understand the issues of exaust gas control and the potential of catastrophic failure and the prospect of a Bophal ( union carbide) disaster .
The correct decision to cut their losses and ditch the beast was made.
When will lowelife fess up and declare the Barbados bophal is equally dead????
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@Redfactor
It is about the politics with an election on the horizon.
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Oh Lowe is me. How is the government gonna get their Waste to Energy plant up and running when people are on to their scam. Elections around the corner DLP, you got more controversy surrounding you that making your chances for a third term a dismal reality. Should have put the sickle in Low Lowe ever since Mr. Prime Minister, but then again you showed yourself to be a Low too. So let us hear the fancy speeches and perhaps a few confessions. Why the secrecy surrounding the Cahill deal and since the secrets got out and the protest started why now have you changed your mind when you were adamant that Cahill was a done deal.
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According to the newspaper report Clare Cowan has denied that the technology used by the failed Air Products is different to what Cahill intended to use.
“The technology used in Air Products is not at all the same as Cahill. It’s not the same technology at all, ” she insisted.
However, when asked if the multi-million dollar Barbados project was still moving forward, all Cowan would say is, “We aren’t using the same technology at all. That’s all I’m on the record as saying.”
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/04/07/no-energy/
The question BU has for Clare is why did she mention Air Tours to support the Cahill Barbados project when she held her town hall meeting #2 in Barbados at the LSCC.
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Cahill is dead, the revelations on BU killed the project a long time ago.
Barbadians need to start another conversation, what is the best waste to energy solution for Barbados, what kind of waste management solution can we sustain as a SID.
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@ Sexy Suzanne
Girlfriend how are you? back at work I see. And there I was hoping to bring the healing ointment to Europe to apply to the wound on your toes. Lol, ole men can dream can’t we?
You made a remark about the Elections and the DLP chances, so I said that I would just mention something a dark beauty like you would understand.
Followings!
You know that when you are at that Surf place in Dover is it? when all of us look at you when you glide by going to the dance floor or bar or just watching you when you stand up?
I am going to give you a little pointer which is so obvious but often lost on many.
Political meetings/rallies and the numbers of attendees and the group dynamics after smaller meetings when the minister speaks.
When people flock to either, that is your barometer of popularity but, as is evident after local gatherings, the crowds at the political meeting are diehard supporters and, unlike your group of new admirers every time you and your group roll, they attract the same acolytes and pooch lickers.
The writing for their imminent demise is on the wall and even if their harvest is going to be a bumper crop, they WILL NOT REAP IT!
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The nuisance and parasit Clare Cowan is at it again….oh, Cahill.
After that type of determined exposure, it did not stand a chance, only the hardheaded, foolish politicians thought they could still get something out of it……steupss.
http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/04/07/no-energy/
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Oh no David please do not say that yet. I want to hear Low Lowe’s take on this. I want government’s position for the madness that has tarnish what ever little credibility they head to smithereens.
My Sweet Piece
Its Surfers Bar and Restaurant on Silver Sands coast just off Atlantic Shores. You better tell ya madam early that you got a dinner date and you will be home around 10pm. I only eat fish and my tongue is salivating for red snapper and mahi mahi. As to this DLP administration, all I can tell you is that they have provided convincing evidence that it is possible to be dead and still dig your own grave. To tell you the truth I cannot wait to see them out of office and hope that when the other crooked pretensive bitches get into the power seats that they would try to redeem the little string of integrity they have left by investigating to the max, the CLICO fiasco, the Cahill matter, and any other developments involving DLP ministers in order to bring their fine pigs to Dodds.
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@Redfactor
Based on on reports in today’s media please explain to there are different types of plasma gasification technology.
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SSS….more importantly, did Lowe or any of the others take a finder’s fee and will they now have to return it…if refundable.
Given the parasitic Clare Cowan’s muddled response from Toronto, I would imagine that all the worldwide investigations into scam artists and fraudsters along with the recent Del Mastros appeal verdict……are all uppermost in her mind…lol
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WWC
You do not know how I am waiting with baited breath to see what revelations come forth from the Panama leak. I hope none of our astute leaders are not in there, after all none of our politicians are corrupt.
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There is a very relevant comment from an MP local to the project who says “The government needs to explain why it signed an exclusive contract to buy electricity generated by unproven technologies and exactly how they propose to fill the gap in their energy needs as these plants are extremely unlikely to come on stream in time — the big question is, will they in the future?”
Which of our MPs is going to ask that question in Barbados?
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Lol….me too SSS….me too.
It appears that Naked Departure is also on the ball, making sure that no names are missed, bug or small….that is why social media is so important. …BU should tzke a bow.
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WWC
Oh, I am be a bitch but I am not into that naked departures thingie. Too slanderous and revealing.I am afraid I might just get addicted LOL
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Nah…SSS..I skip right over what does not, in my mind, affect the island and people as a whole but re their economic situation and victimization by politicians, lawyers and business people, victimization of children….I read that…as I would hate one day to read that someone close to me has been victimized by one of those beasts on 2 legs, look at Mrs. Smith.
All the other stuff, while important to who thinks it’s important, I dont bother.
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WHICH OF OUR MP’S HAVE BEEN MAKING REPEATED VISITS TO PANAMA?
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Copying this from posts in another blog yesterday
Hants April 6, 2016 at 11:54 AM #
Wunna still gine bil a wte plant?
MECC got no money.
Jacobs securities gone up in smoke.
So Cahill WTE plant not gonna happen.
BUT – GOOD NEWS!!!
Barbados’ new best friend is GUNG HO to build WTE plants.
See – This Massive Waste-To-Energy Plant Will Be The Largest in The World – Stretching nearly a mile across and complete with a visitor’s center, the new incinerator will tackle China’s growing trash problem at:
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3056526/this-massive-waste-to-energy-plant-will-be-the-largest-in-the-world
And they got the money.
Just imagine – A visitor’s centre – One of those on Mount Hilaby could be a new tourist attraction for Barbados
Gotta think outside the box
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@ Due Diligence,
You just alerted the DLP Ministers who (maybe sometimes ) troll BU to call the soon to be “New best friend”.
I hope you get a piece of the finders fee. lol
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Lol….ya’ll got jokes.
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Hants
Gonna have the finders fee, in US$, directed to my new BVI holdco, GUNG HO Inc.
Sorry about the drain on US$ reserves; but DD not ready to accept BitCoin currency yet.
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Clare Cowen is just a front. A hired face (ugly one at that) that people use to hide behind so the true owners of the company are shielded from the public. Dennis the menace is one man deserving of his name. He is currently trying to pull of the a scam with Sinks and Mamoney to privatise SSA.
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@ David
The Cahill energy plasma gasifer uses plasma torches and metallurgic coke to bring the temperature to about 3000 degrees.these torches are scaled up versions of the plasma torches found in any good metal fab shop.
Other technologies use electrodes to do the same job.
AlterNRG buy the plasma torches from a third party and mark them up 5000% .
The integration of all these third part components is the main reason air products failed. People underestimate the knowledge base needed to integrate all these technologies.
I noticed the crazy woman stated at the second town hall meeting that her doomed project would need 100 civil engineers to do the job
What a load of codswallop. The civil portion of a project like this is 4 or 5 engineers at best.
Also the guy from hatch engineering clearly never worked on a plasma gasification project. They all came across as a bunch of il prepared idiots.
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@Redfactor101
It begs the question why the assertion of 100 engineers was not challenged by local engineers and media.
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@ David
Maybe they viewed it as yet another stupid comment from the crazy kooky woman just like the potable water comment from her.
Incidently her assertion that the local labour market will benefit is nonsence too sadly we don’t have the skill sets here on the island other than the civil works . so all the MEP workers will have to be brought in from other islands / countries.
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And a significant percentage of the touted investment of 300million plus would have been spent outside of Barbados as well.
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Another article from traditional media, wow!
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”Hard as it may seem, it is still possible for the always combative Minister of the Environment Dr Dennis Lowe to come out of this garbage mess smelling like a rose – well, almost!”
If only Dennis Low Lowe was a rose. Unfortunately, he knows what it is to bury himself in deep shit. His mouthings are all part of a latrine of waste where there is no shortfall of the dark brown stuff. If he and the Freundel Stuart administration had not taken the route of dictatorial and disrespectful, thinking that the elevation to the power seats made their rule absolute and unquestionable, maybe Low Lowe and the Stuart administration could have salvaged some credibility and degree of sympathy by way of the people. However, they thought differently and have created the nice little mindset that has engulfed the minds of the many and beyond to think that it is a WE versus THEM position.
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This issue is bigger than Lowe given all that has been revealed. This is about the Cabinet and the Prime Minister. All will be listening very carefully to the Cahill narrative from here on.
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The Stuart Administration is easily, and with near competition, the most hated and despised aministration in modern Barbados. On a daily basis the people of Barbados use the strongest language and the most derogatory terms/names to describe PM Stuart and his band of bandits.
Say what you will about the BLP, OSA and Mia but my experience in the last 12 months confirm that Barbadian HATE this government, its people and just about everything about and connected to them.
It is one thing for a government to be feared or to be rideculed but when that turns to HATE it is time for serious concern.
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We cannot celebrate as yet for some proponents are still hell bent on ships home porting in Barbados to offload their garbage. The financial considerations once attractive enough causes the materialistic individual to be unreasonable in their decision making.
Perhaps, some day a newspaper headline will read “Barbados Waste Import Revenue tops $2B while High Dioxin Levels Found amidst increased cancer deaths”
It was laughable when Clair Cowan said the citizens could set up their own monitoring in the absence of government monitoring. No factory or waste burning plant has ever met any particulate pollution acceptable level anywhere in the world.
Our air, soil, water and marine areas would be under threat from Cahill residents down wind of Portvale have to contend with whiskey fungus and particulate matter which was the norm for residents down wind of FourSquare
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@Never Give The Ignorant Power, the Stuart Administration was the administration which had the most sympathy and support to rescue the country from the BLP after 14 years. However, the arrogance shown in short order is like nothing ever seen before, its unbelievable.
Thus,the conclusion is that both BLP and DLP are now obsolete as labor parties. We can only hope they be put to rest in the political cemetery soon. A new vision and #ANewWay is needed.
An observation I made last night at the Solutions Barbados meeting after meeting some of the individuals who attended is that we need to introduce mental health fitness checks as part of the requirement for office.
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@Kammie
What was the turnout for the meeting like yesterday at the SB meeting?
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About 30 persons
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Plenty assertions and highly speculative conclusions.
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Kammie
Have you committed to Solutions Barbados yet?
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We will wait in vain for any explanations relative to CAHILL coming from Denis Lowe or any member of this DLP administration. They have become “puffed up” with arrogance.
Contrary to promises articulated in their 2008 manifesto, the DEMS’ “attitude to accountability is NOT based on the UNDERSTANDING that as SERVANTS and REPRESENTATIVES of the people, there can be no SECRETS or MATTERS to be HIDDEN from the POPULATION.”
On July 31, 2010, Marilyn Rice-Bowen’s appointment as Chairperson of the NHC was summarily revoked by then Housing Minister, Michael Lashley. Rice-Bowen subsequently held a press conference to inform the public that she was not given “any direct or indirect explanation as to the root cause of my termination, nor have I received any prior warning.”
She also talked about the NHC contracting CLICO Holdings to construct houses at Constant, St. George, WITHOUT a LEGAL CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT.
Lashley responded by saying there was a contract in place between the NHC and CLICO, which was signed by Rice-Bowen on October 9, 2009. However, she said she could not recall singing a contract and challenge Lashley to share the contract with the public to support his allegations.
Rather than share the document with the public, Lashley resorted to offering a “red herring” by referring to business transactions between NHC and CGM Gallagher Insurance Company where, at the time, Rice-Bowen’s son was the financial controller.
We saw what happened the last time Lowe was asked to account for CAHILL. He gave a synopsis of his autobiography, while throwing his PhD and asking about Mottley’s LEC.
The yard-fowls have been quick to shout about Mottley’s LEC, but have not exhibited similar zeal in asking Lowe or Lashley to be transparent and accountable.
Lowe is yet to give Barbadians an update or any other information about CAHILL.
It is now 2016, six years after Lashley is yet to produce the contract he accused Rice Bowen of signing.
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@Small Dwarf, no I have not signed up to Solutions Barbados. Unfortunately their autocratic style does not gel with my persona.
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Until govt says it is OFF it is ON
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JA2
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oh well
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The fact of the matter is that it was never on, except in the minds of the four Ministers who signed on; because Clare Cowan had no money, except to grease the wheels, and no investors
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AC…..you and Alvin were marketing Cahill scam for Clare Cowan, that’s disgusting…..ya’ll aint shame.
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@ Kammie
An observation I made last night at the Solutions Barbados meeting after meeting some of the individuals who attended is that we need to introduce mental health fitness checks as part of the requirement for office.
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Very perceptive.
Barbados is lucky to have you too…. Indeed there are quite a few VERY talented persons around the place…..talented in various ways.
But we are where we are because we operate a democratic voting system where the majority brass bowls choose to elect persons LIKE THEMSELVES to lead them…..rather than to APPRECIATE the limited talent we have …and ENSURE that they were the ones to take on the heavy NATIONAL responsibilities that their talents permit them to handle.
Perhaps after the bowls hurt enough they will come to appreciate TRUE unselfish, patriotic talent …. and BEG wunna to take wunna rightful places.
Grenville is a good chap….. but his many talents are not in the area of national politics. He is just probably so frustrated that those who ARE blessed with such gifts REFUSE to step up….that he is forced to do so…
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@DD
Not only does Cowan have no money!!!!!!
It’s even worse.
Cowan used everyone else’s money .
And paid noone for their services.
Technip paid her €650,000 for the pleasure of doing 3 non existent front end engineering packages including Barbados.she used this money to pay her first mortgage .
Liz Spencer loaned her £300,000 which she also used pay her monthly mortgage payments.
Seventh heaven properties who made the initial introductions to the GOB never got paid .
Her lawyers never got paid
Otto Simon never got paid
Chris Webb her project manager never got paid.
Blenheim group Gurnsey her offshore tax haven where all the “stolen” money was deposited got paid per transaction
( clever guys)
Stantec got a partial payment????
E&Y never got paid.
Fentons Her accounts never got paid.
Ridgemount loaned her a second mortgage which she used to pay her first mortgage but never paid them back.
Ridgemount take her to court and her house of cards comes crashing down.
She was penniless coming into this high stakes games. She used and abused everyone and left a trail of unpaid bills in her wake.
This is a book in the making for sure.
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David
I know this ain’t only about Low Lowe, but he was the mouth of the south with a huff and puff. He will be sick very soon when he realise that his big pay day might be realized. Sorry, but I got to target the stinking liar. Simply let the chips fall where they may.
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By all means target him, By our writings we have demonstrated zero respect for a public official who has shown himself to be corrupt and incompetent.
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As significant as the cards are stack against Cahill Cowan, there must be a similar stacking against the entire cabinet of ministers, particularly Low Lowe, who felt it prudent to operate less than stellar in the Cahill affair. There is no need to find any additional evidence to prove that the Stuart led government lies, lied and lying. What is important is that they know what beliefs they felt kept them strong in thinking they had mastered the rhetorical skill perfected by the Artful Dodger, must make them come to the reality that their shenanigans are one by one being revealed. Where Stuart may feel silence is a golden rule, this particular tactic simply is having opposite effect as most simply see it as an to avoid the verdict – as guilty as sin.
At this stage, Claire Cowan does not have anything to lose. She should start chirping like a canary and expose the entire scam that enticed cabinet ministers to sign in secret, a document they felt did not warrant the approval, scrutiny or say of the people.
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Redfactor..I am surprised Clair Cowan is not in prison, but it’s still early days, hope they pick up the idiot politicians and 2 yardfowls AC and Alvin when they get arrest warrants.
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What’s to stop Cowan singing like a canary about the ‘sweetheart’ deals she had to agree to in order for the Barbados goverment to back her? They treated her like a leper the minute it started to go pear shaped instead of backing her up or protecting her. She should get her own back by singing BU a little lullaby…. We are all very intersted to hear….
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Well, she started to sing in her phone conversations with her fortune teller. I do not see any reason why she should not expose the a whole lot of them unless they pull significant funds from out the genie bottle to pay for her silence. Low Lowe has to find a way to cover his tracks.
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Patrick Hoyos takes a turn in Cahill, BU agree with his conclusion.
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/79914/black-white-air-products-failure-cahill-caper.
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Where are the JADA boys in all this???
They were the guys who fronted all the crazy woman’s meetings with the government in the Hilton hotel??
Could it be they are real Cahill energy Barbados?????
Are they stink liar ,Lowe life and Boyce’s
Handlers?????
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@Redfactor101
Connecting all the dots it has been obvious for a long time that Tempro, Bjerkam et al have been the movers behind Cahill Barbados Ltd.
On 10 April 2016 at 20:37, Barbados Underground wrote:
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In this Cahill scam Tempro, Maloney and Bjerkhamn were all fronts for the big power hitter in Barbados. This was put together by a big DLP power hitter, one who was made by the DLP and who is big enough to call shots with the DLP, Stuart, Sinckler, Boyce, Kellman and Lashley.
Tempo would used-to to have call the power hitter Daddy once upon a time when he was but a boy.
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I would not be at all surprised to wake up one morning and find the infrastructure from the condemned Teeside plant on a ship at the Bridgetown port, waiting to be offloaded. This would not be the first time that the government has paid out good money for scrap, like the supposed Smart Meters which the BWA was lemoned off with, or equipment at QEH .
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@Colonel Buggy April 10, 2016 at 10:30 PM #
I would not be at all surprised to wake up one morning and find the infrastructure from the condemned Teeside plant on a ship at the Bridgetown port, waiting to be offloaded.
My concerns exactly for dying men are ruthless. Need I say more when dealing with $700 million or more.
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Kammie Holder
That might just be the incentive needed to start the massive protest. However, Colonel Buggy is right, the way how these Pirates of the Caribbean Island of Barbados has operated,you can expect them to make another attempt to get the money. I am more convince ever than I was before that Cahill was more of a money deal than a desire to solve our waste problems through the creation of energy. There is no way in the world that for all that these idiots were planning to put Barbados in that they were not planning to get out all that they needed to make their lives comfortable, either in Barbados or some part of the world, where the aftermath of their fool hearty decision would not have the type of impact on them like it would for the rest of bajans. This Waste to Energy it done yet, not by long shot.
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Not only is Cahill done,it is buried. A reminder what caused Tees side to fail.
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@david
Not trying to defend the gasifer but the union rep is misleading people
1. It’s corrosion not erosion
2 this gasifer is inches thick and is brick lined so I don’t know how this guy can say the gasifer is eroded/corroded?? Other than all the brick lining fell off.
I’m not aware that they fired up the TV1 gasifier in anger as yet so not sure anyone is in a position to evaluate the operation.
I believe it the integration of the whole system is the main issue.
I also believe the brick lining of the gasifer and the massive exit duct is a major issue.
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Thanks Redfactor101. Bottomline is that the technology – especially given the scale – failed.
Isn’t it in the sector’s interest to be transparent in what transpired at Tees Valley?
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@david
Absolutely
TV 1 had no leadership and all the contractors including the union labour just milked the project for all its worth.air products were totally hands off and paid the price.
Tv2 airproducts too the lead on it but didn’t have the leadership skills in project delivery and again failure insued .
Scale up wasn’t though through and balance of plant was poorly integrated
And this kooky woman thinks she’s better at this than the big EPC contractors
It really laughable
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Redfactor101 April 11, 2016 at 9:45 AM #
“And this kooky woman thinks she’s better at this than the big EPC contractors
It really laughable”
And that this government believed that she’s better at this than the big EPC contractors is really tragic
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Bushie is still of the mind that this thing was NEVER intended to be built in Barbados.
All government wanted was to be seen to be doing something high-tech and large-scale to deal with waste….and all the inside players wanted was to do some milking until 2018 or so.
The sooner we recognize this kind of scam the sooner we will become MUCH more suspicious of all these fancy announcement coming from politicians (and some businessmen) in Barbados.
…Launch a $100M project
…Borrow (or take from the Treasury) and spend $5M in consultancies, plans, studies, site visits
…20% of that seed money is directed to a shell company in Panama /Gurnsey/ BVI
…Elections come / Retirement comes / technology changes/ ….or like Four Seasons/Pierhead/New Hospital etc the ‘project’ just dies..
…You have $1M in your shell company.
…Barbados just wasted $5M, as well as precious time and efforts when PRODUCTIVE projects could have been executed.
Sam Lords is probably next after the Sugar Factory shiite implodes…
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The Bridgetown Redevelopment project comes to mind.
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@Due Diligence
Clare Cowen is a rent-a-dummy director, trust me on this. In BVI, Panama, Turks, USVI and Channel Islands these idiots come cheaply, very cheaply. Didn’t you notice she was always drunk and could not talk any details about the project?
CAHILL was a scam planned right here in Barbados by some very bright people and will the full assistance of the political operatives.
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@ Small Dwarf
CAHILL was a scam planned right here in Barbados by some very bright people and will the full assistance of the political operatives.
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They are not all that bright…
How much brains are needed to scam a bunch of bowls of brass?
Is the esteemed NON-leper ‘bright’?
Is Mark Maloney ‘Bright’?
Bright shiite…
The precious few ‘bright’ among us have retreated to North America and Europe or they just sit quietly in Barbados doing petty jobs….and wasting time making money…
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Where is the attorney general in all this crap?????
Even the simple act of suspending the shell company Cahill Energy Barbados pending investigation would be a line in the sand???
“No Barbadian company no contract!!!”
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Bush Tea
The non-leper and MM have a lot in common. MM like Bjerkhamn and Tempro were pawns in this thing buddy. You know how much money it takes to keep a sunken marina afloat and also how much to costs to raise real estate project which have become ‘under water’ and where the main investor in rotting under ground?
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@Redfactor101
All of Barbados is waiting for the AG to report to the Lower House about the status of Mia Mottley’s LEC. Perhaps he will use the visible opportunity to deliver on this overdue promise. Then again the AG is is a DLP politician and this trumps all other obligations to be honest and to uphold the tenets of that underpin integrity.
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Sunshine Kaidi group the new Chinese owner of Alter NRG are quoted as saying that the failure of TV 1&2 plants to complete are a blip on there radar and await the new owners of the waste to energy plants to be announced to access the real impact on an already buoyant order book.
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Why didn’t the plasma gasification plant work as proposed in Teeside? In my opinion feedstock was not of the correct quality for the plasma gasification process, the waste would have needed to go through a pre-processing stage to ensure that the moisture content of the finished prepared fuel (RDF) was in the 12-15% range otherwise too much moisture would lead to tarring of the internals of the furnace.
The preparation of feedstock on plant of this type is one of the most important factors to consider.
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The bottomline – it does not matter how you twist it – the science is too young with a plant of the proposed scale to construct on a tiny island Barbados. Those who participated in this scam from our government must be held to account.
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