The following has been circulating on social media for a few weeks. It seems relevant with the press announcement Chairman of the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) Tammy Bryan has recused herself from taking further part in the Barbados Light & Power (BL&P) rate process – Blogmaster
As a child I liked to play those little games found in magazines called “connect the dots” and “follow the trail”. While following the trail sometimes led to a dead-end, connecting the dots often created an image one would not ordinarily see with the naked eye. Although things like magazines are passe and the world wide web is now en vogue I have kept up with my childhood passion of connecting dots and following trails.
One day whilst doodling around on a local online newspaper the recent Barbados Light & Power application for a rate hike caught my eye, especially the various actors involved and once again my childhood passion kicked in and I started connecting dots and following trails.
I kept hearing the name Barbados Light & Power and some name Emera used in the same breath. I wondered what it was and started my trail at the Corporate Affairs website. I discovered an Emera Inc on the external company register as being domiciled and registered in Halifax, Cananda and its mailing address locally was “suite 205-207, Dowell House, Roebuck & Palmetto Streets, Bridgetown, Barbados”.
Of course, I googled that address where a whole set of hits came up which all identified a law firm called George Walton Payne & Co. as being located at that address. I may be wrong but Emera is probably a client of that law firm. My childhood inquisitiveness continued and of course I wanted to know who were the people in this law firm and I quickly checked the Barbados Bar Association website and names like an Andrew Vanroy Thornhill, Q.C, a Tammy Lavone Bryan and a Mr. George Walton Payne, Q.C, all came up.
That last name triggered something in my head and then I remembered why the name of that law firm sounded familiar. If I not mistaken is that not the law firm where the Attorney General Mr. Dale D. Marshall, Q.C was a managing partner? He supposed to have some flagship piece of law called Integrity in Public Life that he can’t seem to breathe life into. I didn’t see his name on the Bar Association website but I sure he still got friends in there.
That trail led to a dead end, but still not satisfied I went back to the Corporate Affairs website and typed in Emera in various forms only to discover that there are two Emera (Caribbean) Incorporated, one listed on the Amalgamation (Domestic) Register as company 40270 and the other on the Domestic Register as company 14327. There is yet another, Emera Caribbean Holdings Limited on the International Business Company as company number 40616. All of that was gobbledy-gook to me except that one name kept cropping up. That of Andrew V. Thornhill, and I wondered if this person could possibly be Andrew Vanroy Thornhill, Q.C? I must admit that I cheated on this one and got some help from a little birdy who had access to the people database but it confirmed that they are the same person. Not only is he a partner in that fancy law firm but he is a managing partner if you please. Apparently it was he who managed that big fish of Emera buying the shares of the BL&P! Now I understand why people call the two names together. Emera owns Light & Power. My little exercise didn’t lead me anywhere though. I heard it isn’t unusual for lawyers to sit on the boards of their client companies who they represent legally. I had run into a dead-end again so I started on a new track.
I started at the website of the Fair Trading Commission because it is that government entity who is to determine the principles, rates and standards of service for places like Light & Power. Their values are supposed to include acting with integrity, fostering the respect and trust of staff and the public, and demonstrating impartiality. This FTC place is headed by a board of Commissioners under the chairmanship of a Mrs. Tammy Bryan. Something there again rang a bell, that name sounded awfully familiar. Is this Mrs. Tammy Bryan, Chairman of the FTC and the Tammy Lavone Bryan of George Walton Payne & Co. the legal firm that represents Emera one and the same person? Again, I had to cheat on this one and look at the back of the book for the answers, and again my suspicions were confirmed. Not only is she a partner together with Andrew Vanroy Thornhill Q.C, one of the Emera Directors, but is junior to him. The people work in the same place with their offices separated by a veneer thin piece of Chinese see-though paper for a wall! They probably borrow pens, papers, chit-chat about how wifey, hubby or the children doing and bounce things off each other.
I don’t know, but would a managing partner not be senior to an ordinary partner and have a certain level of influence on them? Don’t Chairman of anything still have a certain level of influence on the other members? I know sometimes they have a deciding vote on things.
I’m ignorant to how these things work, but I began to wonder if the law firm George Walton Payne & Co. was working for its client Emera in advising on the current application before the FTC panel for an order for a confidentiality hearing and for rate increases backdate to November last year. If this is so, would the law firm of George Walton Payne & Co. not stand to make a profit in some form or fashion from that application of its client Emera to the FTC under the chairmanship of one of its partners? This picture looking really ugly though.
Again I am ignorant to these things but does a partner in a law firm not equate to that of a director in a company even if by another name? Does a partner in a law firm not have a duty to the firm and to look out for its best interest? I would have to consult with a lawyer on that one but it makes me wonder who the missy that is Partner/Chairman/Commissioner batting for.
I also wonder about the FTC Commissioners, are they not “Directors” of that entity as well, even if by another name and owe a duty to that entity and as their value statement” said to act with integrity and demonstrate impartiality? I remembered years ago in a business law class somewhere that directors have a duty not to make a secret profit. I also remembered in that same class some talk about disclosure, conflict of interest and the whole nine yards.
I must admit though that I’ve never had these two games combined into one, where following a track connected dots along the way.In the end, I seem to be no wiser in my little online follow the track and connect the dots game for what I’ve ended up with looks more like one of those things oletime things called a cesspit. It used to have in a lot of nasty worms and creepers and it looked like it was living. God forbid if you ever disturbed it and it belched. The whole place was stink for miles around.
I must see if any of the intervenors at the FTC, BL&P rate hearing can help me to identify what I just ended up with. In the meantime I moving on to the next game called follow the trail and find Ian Carrington.
Stupes! Will not nead to watch any comedies tonight as already had my laugh for today!
Will go down to my basement and dig out my choo-choo train. It has all the bells and whistles and can even let off steam.
Sadly, I already know that it is taking me nowhere…
Bushie still trying to work this out…
So how is it appropriate for her to step down from the Hearing, BUT CONTINUE as chairman of FTC ..where she ROUTINELY makes decisions that need to be SEEN to be unbiased?
Also, how come she only SAW THE LIGHT after that long social media expose of her links to EMERA?
Was she unaware of this when the minister appointed her? …or was she just hoping that no one found out?
Was the minister unaware too? ..will he claim ignorance? …or igrunce?
cause, over the past few days this SAME minister seems to have taken up EMERA’s fire rage…
…talking shiite about how GREAT Emera is…. and signing agreements with them…
ALL in the middle of a rate case, where HIS ministry is meant to be the impartial judge….
Some shiite like it affecting these politicians yuh….
@Bush Tea
Do we entertain a culture in Barbados that supports elected/appointed officials offering their resignations if conflict of interest situations surface? For many Barbadians it does not even enter their thoughts.
@Bush Tea
They have to bend over backwards for EMERA so they don’t cut the amount of solar energy they willing to accept on the grid.
Lots of money is there to be made in this Solar push not by the homeowners installing lot of panels on their roofs but by the sellers and installers.
In a gold rush, most of wealth is made by the ones selling shovels, pickaxes and mining tools.
@Bush Tea. wha loss and you call me lukewarm … and lax of moral standards 😂🤦🏾♂️… but got de gall to offer half hearted condemnation of this minister who knowingly appointed a partner of the firm that REPRESENTS EMERA as FTC Chair! Looka my crosses, tho. 🤣
In trute I thought it was you who authored dis piece wid de sweet self-effacing facetiously sarcastic tone … too sweet.
This riposte was all BushTea 🤣: “I don’t know, but would a managing partner not be senior to an ordinary partner and have a certain level of influence on them? Don’t Chairman of anything still have a certain level of influence on the other members? I know sometimes they have a deciding vote on things.”
Bare CORRUPTION …. and we does talk all ova we face about criminal minded youth ! Steeupse.
This is highfaluting criminality that these elites does think too far above de comprehension of de average Bajan … so they does juck we in de eye blatantly.
Although a law firm can have partners and associates who in fact represent OPPOSING or non-complimentary parties this is EGREGIOUSLY disturbing and in our small society should NEVER has taken place. All jokes aside this is unacceptable and people should resign in shape … but will neva happen.
And Dale sitting on the integrity legislation … as the author suggests one wonders why!
And BushTea you dun know that Dr. Carrington was just a few years ahead of the AG at high school … and should know him well. So who knows if he got conflict connections to de law firm too!
Bimshire is too sweet tho! So decent and propa and as insidiously corrupt as can be!
I gone.
Oh dear! How incestuous! Didn’t she know all along who her “father” was?
This stinks
David,
Yes! BEFORE you get found out, not after.
Barbados is too small and close-knit to not have conflicts of interest. Focus has to be placed on integrity.
What is required is full transparency to shed bright lights on all the government involved contracts, hearing proceedings and facilitate criminal and or civil lawsuits to quickly hold offenders accountable for corrupt practices when identified.
Participants would have to be very brazen to continue corrupt practices when they can be easily found out and sued.
Nothing to see here, why don’t you all move along didn’t the Chair say something to the effect that fair minded and informed advisors would not conclude that there is apparent bias on her part and this was confirmed by independent legal opinions. Thus it is only out of the goodness of her heart that she is stepping aside- so there. All uh wunnah just making noise because wunnah still shell shocked at 61-0 beat down that the DLP received
Meanwhile there is another similar WhatsApp message about the large sums being paid to various public relations people to massage the image of the PM . I suppose that will make headlines in September
Don’t stop the Crop Over
Conflicts of interest often arise in instances where positions in the Public sector are filled by people previously employed in the Private sector. The issue is how such conflicts are handled when they arise, a frequent example is is that of members of the judiciary. In a small society this happens even more frequently. The proper way to handle it is to ensure transparency have an independent review to determine when recusal is needed.
Emera has record profits, but wants more from ratepayers to move off coal
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/emera-has-record-profits-but-wants-more-from-ratepayers-to-move-off-coal/
What we are witnessing is a strategic distribution of the ” fatted calf ”
There is no conflict only interest.
Dot Connector
When the Caves finally published their Annual Reports because they wished to outsource management, it was revealed Dr.Carrington was a Board member, UNTIL after the 2018 election when Ralph Thorne & Co, took over, and he was replaced. He has been on the FTC since 2015.
So even if he is related to the DoF, he appears to have been more D approved than B.
Dribbler
“This riposte was all BushTea 🤣: “I don’t know, but would a managing partner not be senior to an ordinary partner and have a certain level of influence on them? Don’t Chairman of anything still have a certain level of influence on the other members? I know sometimes they have a deciding vote on things.”
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What about this sounds like Bushie?!! Steupsss!!!… You are hopeless….
You EVER hear Bushie start a sentence with ‘I don’t know..?.’ …..The bushman don’t tell lies boss…
Of course had Bushie known of these connections, then David would have been included LONG AGO.
This is truly a lotta shiite.
What is even worse is that Emera is KNOWN to be less than ethical….
Are they not currently employing some former FTC senior staff who suddenly saw the wisdom of ‘working’ for Emera – instead of the FTC, and who took all their inside knowledge with them to Emera…. No doubt THAT served Bajans well…
Bushie also recalls talk about them ‘assisting Barbados’ with electric buses when the transport Board fleet was a mess… out of the goodness of their kind hearts no doubt….
And now we see that they had ‘agents’ planted at the highest levels in rate making….
Shiite!!!
We could as well put aside money for the increased rates….or to buy candles.
One now has to wonder what ‘negotiations’ are currently secretly underway (during the current rates business), that could well result in more FTC people (or Cabinet contacts) jumping on the Emera ship in coming months & years.
That article which was kindly researched by Hants is MOST enlightening – especially with regards to the profits these people are making off their FOREIGN investments…. REALLY ENLIGHTENING….phenomenal profits…!!!
Perhaps there are some hard questions ALSO to be answered by the people who sold the local NIS shares in BL&P ..to pay off Four Seasons Creditors…?
What a damned place we have created….
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You’ve asked if our decision to extend the life of our steam generations instead of investing in new generation was a breach of goodwill with the FTC? Here’s our response! Source: BL&P
“On the 21st day of December, 2021 the Cabinet agreed to the vesting of approximately
8.698 hectares (21.485 acres) of land together with the buildings thereon, formerly known
as the St. Joseph Hospital, situate at Ashton Hall in the parish of Saint Peter in this Island
in a commercial Special Purpose Vehicle in which the Government of Barbados will hold
25% of the shares and The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill will hold 75% of the
shares for a joint venture between the Government and The University of the West Indies.”
….A special purpose vehicle (SPV) is a subsidiary company that is formed to undertake a specific business purpose or activity. SPVs are commonly utilized in certain structured finance applications, such as asset securitization, joint ventures, property deals, or to isolate parent company assets, operations, or risks. While there are many legitimate uses for establishing SPVs, they have also played a role in several financial and accounting scandals.
The last time I heard this term in Barbados the result was Clearwater Bay Limited.
On a more related matter, there is a Resolution before the Senate, whereby the BNOC will lease from GoB lands at Fairy Valley, upon which the BNOC will build a photovoltaic plant. While the resolution tells us the costs will be borne by BNOC, and after 25 years will revert to the GoB at no cost, one is left to guess who will run this operation, and how it will fit into the power matrix.
Can’t stop the political/legal/accounting/economic shenanigans, but I can keep my electricity bill low, low, low. Over the last 12 months it has averaged $70.92 BDS per month, with a high of $90.62 and a low of $54.70.
Dear David:
Can you or anybody else explain in PLAIN ENGLISH what Light and Power is trying to say in their statement above? Thanks.
@Cuhdear Bajan
What they are trying to say is they did not want to spend large sums of money purchasing and installing new diesel generators to replace the old steam generators because alternative large scale renewable energy electricity generation projects were in the works that had the potential to disrupt the original diesel generators purchase plan making that large spend a bad investment if the energy produced was not utilized.
This 2012 timeframe is probably when the renewable energy push would have been started in earnest by the government of the day with the conceptualization of the waste to energy plant (Cahill) and other large scale renewable energy projects with solar and wind.
https://renewablesnow.com/news/cahill-energy-to-build-up-to-35-mw-waste-to-energy-plant-in-barbados-410119/
This headlong rush to renewable energy is folly and the people familiar with power generation know it too.
Renewable energy means unreliable energy while Fossil Fuel energy means reliable energy. Both have their strengths and weaknesses and the two technologies can work hand in hand only when government admits 100% renewable is unwise even if it was attainable.
There must always be a reliable base load available 24 hours a day capable of satisfying the entire energy needs of the country otherwise the grid will overload and BL&P will be required to resort to rolling blackouts to prevent grid collapse like what happened a few years ago.
Currently, ONLY fossil fuel or nuclear energy plants have an energy source able to satisfy 24 hour availability until we figure out how to make the sun shine or wind blow at a minimum set speed 24 hours a day.
@CA
Has the technology not improved to blur separation of intermittent and fossil bases energy by planners?
@CA
Good assessment… BUT
.. the important point in the BL&P statement is in what they DO NOT say.
Mainly, what the hell happened to all the EXTRA money that they would have collected over the years that would have been leveled on CUSTOMERS (to pay for these pieces of equipment that NEVER materialized.)
Seems OBVIOUS to Bushie that if there was a change in plan, THEN there should have been a REVIEW of the damn rates given, so that customers would not be paying for GHOST equipment.
So perhaps you can suggest why the FTC did not insist on a downward REVIEW of rates after BL&P changed their minds…..
…besides the otherwise OBVIOUS fact that Bajans are bowls into which ANY jobby can be thrown.
@BT
We t seems from BL&P language it continues to provision in their plans energy promised from a Cahill project? The blogmaster is willing to be corrected.
@Bush Tea
A good question and BL&P will probably answer it with it was mostly used with additional expenses to keep the turbines operational since they were not replaced and some was put into their solar farm project to reduce the pass on to customer cost they asked for with that project.
The fault is with the FTC for not following up and calling BL&P back to FTC to gave an account in 2012/2013 on the status of those funds collected.
@CA
The ethical thing for BL&P to have done if there was a change in use of revenue stream based on FTC approval was to write to FTC for adjusted approval.
LOL @ CA
“ BL&P will probably answer it with it was mostly used with additional expenses “
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They probably will…. but ONLY in Brassbados would they dare to come with such nonsense.
This would mean that THEY have assumed the role of ‘regulator’ in deciding how rates are to be applied.
If they were to say something like THAT in a serious jurisdiction where the Regulator was independent and professional, it would be cat piss and pepper.
In Brassbados…not so much.
What about the Integrity legislation?
@ David
“The ethical thing for BL&P to have done…”
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BL&P would most likely have done exactly that….
But after wunna SOLD out BL&P to Emera, what BL&P ‘would have done’ has become moot…
Look again at Hants’ article about Emera’s recent meeting report and ask yourself what EMERA would do with millions of ‘bonus’ $$ from a bunch of BBs who are as easy to rob as babies with candy…
@Bush Tea
Are you implying collusion?
collusion?
no… brassbowlery.
@David May 27, 2022 8:20 AM
All technology has done is reduced the cost and increased the efficiency of solar panels but unless energy storage systems e.g. battery capacity vastly increases to where several days worth of energy can be stored cheaply by BL&P, the best renewables can do is reduce the amount of fuel the fossil fuel generators use to generate electricity on sunny days. But the fossil fuel generator needs to be able to ramp up quickly.
@ Critical Analyzer,
“Barbados weather is generally warm and sunny all year round with an average daytime high of 30°C / 86°F. In fact, Barbados has over 3,000 hours of sunshine each year ”
https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-hours-Sunshine,Bridgetown,Barbados
When you’re beaten so badly twice, you work hard to discredit the government. The lady recused herself. But wunna feel there are no more connections given our size? Anyhow, the connector needed not try to give the impression something was hidden. On GWP & co website:
“Andrew was Barbados counsel to Emera (Barbados) Holdings No. 2 Ltd. (“EBH2”) and Emera Inc. for the 2015-2016 acquisition by EBH2 of Emera (Caribbean) Incorporated.
He was also Barbados counsel to AmBev S.A. and SLU Beverages Ltd. (“SLU”) for the 2015-2016 acquisition by SLU of Banks Holdings Limited, the sole beer and malt producer on the island of Barbados.”
Y’all live fuh commess eh.🤣🤣
@enuff
What is the point you are making? Bryan shouldn’t have recused herself as chair?
@Bush Tea May 27, 2022 7:36 AM “…what the hell happened to all the EXTRA money that they would have collected over the years that would have been leveled on CUSTOMERS (to pay for these pieces of equipment that NEVER materialized.”
Thanks Bushie.
Does that mean that I can ask back for my money then?
When I was a little girl and ma sent me to the shop for an ounce of butter and a gill of lard-oil and a 1/4 lb of salt fish; if the shop keeper did not have one or more of the items I had to give ma the money not spent on the items the shopkeeper didn’t have.
Has accounting/moral standards changed since 1960 then?
@Critical Analyzer May 27, 2022 7:50 AM “…it was mostly used with additional expenses to keep the turbines operational since they were not replaced and some was put into their solar farm project to reduce the pass on to customer cost they asked for with that project.”
My response: But shouldn’t money be used for the purpose for which it was requested. If I go to the bank to borrow $200,000 to upgrade my home, is it ok then to use the $200,000 to buy a fancy new car for my boyfriend?
@Critical Analyzer May 27, 2022 7:50 AM “…the status of those funds collected…”
You telling me then that the funds are in the company’s account, instead of my share being in my account. Man! it my only be a couple hundred dollars but for we old age pensioners every cent counts. With $200 I can pay my light bill for about 3 months.
If I decide then to NOT pay my light bill for 3 months would anybody think that I un-fairing the power company?
Does the company have about 80,000 residential customers?
My math int too good, but when I multiplied $200 X 80,000 I am getting $16 million
$16 million is a good peica change.
@Sargeant May 27, 2022 9:07 AM “What about the Integrity legislation?”
Sarge boy, integrity can’t be legislated. Either your parents teach you to have a conscience/have integrity by about age 4 or it cannot be learned. Seems like a lotta, lotta parents fell down on the job.
Lawyers/legislators can’t fix parental FAILINGS.
integrity legislation is not intended to legislate integrity in its generic definition. Instead it regulates a framework of agreed standards of conduct and enforce penalties if not met.
@Bush Tea May 27, 2022 9:50 AM “…BBs who are as easy to rob as babies with candy…”
I don’t know when last you tried to take something from a baby, or worse still from a toddler, but my experience is that they scream and holler and hold on tighter and tighter, and if they have working legs, then they hold tight to their stuff AND run away. L’il children have not yet LEARNED to be Brassbowls.
@Enuff
You just can’t help yourself, the carefully manicured image of the Chair fell apart under the disinfecting sunshine of social media. Despite the fulsome explanation of how she passed all legal hurdles she still recused herself which is for the better. I think the FTC dodged a bullet, imagine the stench if her connections was exposed after a decision favoring Emera.
@ Cutdear
“ L’il children have not yet LEARNED to be Brassbowls”
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Bushie stands corrected and do apologize to our l’ll children.
You are indeed correct, even babies would not allow themselves to be treated so.
@Enuff
Since they send you out to face the bowling, …and since you have all the background info,
…can you tell us what has been the delay in holding the rate case?
Shiite man!! this thing started LAST YEAR and the company had said that if they don’t get some money soon, some trouble would result….
You can tell us what going on…?
It looking like wunna driving with L’s yuh.
David
I am saying she did the right thing.
Bushie
Who sends me? Boss I mek muh little short posts on BU from muh phone when bored, looking for comedy and feel like stirring up BU’s nest of sugar ants. I don’t post propaganda, the emotive, conspiracies or tales, strictly facts.
Enuff
Boss I mek muh little short posts on BU from muh phone when bored,
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Noted…and do forgive the bushman for probing,
But you gotta realize that you are the only source of occasional info that seems credible (even if highly massaged 🙂 )
So ask a question for we, and let we know wuh gwine on wid de case.
BTW
The ‘right thing’ would have been to decline the offer to chair the FTC in the first damn place… unless of course it was a deliberate ‘plant’….You must know that you should not be in “church and chapel”
C.A is totally on point. All that was stated when we had the day’s long power failure a few years ago. The Cahill shite and the 100 % renewable energy policy made the new equipment a bad investment.
Fair enough, but wuh yuh do wid de rate increase money specifically granted for the purchase of de equipment? Cuhdear Bajan is quite reasonably asking for a refund.
Or, as BT opined, they should have returned to the FTC if other expenses incurred due to the cancelled upgrade needed to be covered.
C.A may very well have a point about the 100% policy. Storage would have to be pretty good for that to be feasible.
Good discussion!
One thing though, did not the BWA significantly raise rates to replace 100 year old pipes and build an administrative headquarters instead?
And did we not suffer terribly the effects of leaky and burst mains causing dripping and dry taps across the island?
Emera probably took notes from our government.
Just as they are taking note of government erroneously classifying lowly workers as having contracts FOR services instead of contracts OF service, thereby relieving itself of obligations and leaving poor workers vulnerable and not covered by National Insurance?
In some cases, workers were sent home without cause, no written record of complaint about their “services” and were not eligible for benefits nor were they paid out for the balance of their contracts as would be required if “dismissed” without cause.
So…. Government cannot expect the private sector to do any better. Government is supposed to be of the people and by the people and for the people. Businesses are primarily for their owners.
The problem is that we have too many problems to keep track of. We are not brass bowls. We are simply overwhelmed.
“Too much hard chunes! Cyan play all!” says the DJ.
I don’t think we have learnt how to pick our battles and fight them until we’ve won. In nine days, it’s on to the next one.
The question to be answered by the FTC is – did BL&P write to the FTC on its adjusted position re: steam generators.
Source: Nation
@ David
“The question to be answered by the FTC is – did BL&P write to the FTC on its adjusted position re: steam generators.”
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and..
If NOT, did the FTC then write to BL&P about the URGENT NEED for an adjusted position…?
And how does this all fit in with the ‘secret’ plan that the engineers are now calling to be made public?
@Bush Tea
We are on the same page.
The reason the article was posted highlighting concern about oil agreements in Guyana is that governance issues are always a challenge this part of the world where governments is concerned.
@David
@CA
If you search BU Archives you should be able to retrieve discussions past around Economic Hitman.
That is why I hesitated to put those solar panels on my roof. I could not figure out how the electric company was going to make its money. I thought I was missing something.
Anyway, I probably will put the few solar panels on my roof anyway. With such a small “investment” I will probably not lose out.
Hopefully the flaws in reasoning will be sorted out and a new plan will be made.
@Donna
The electric company will always come out ahead between the EV car push, overall energy feed-in limits and renewable rates paid.
Once they reach the feed-in subscriber limit, they will stop paying new customers for net excess energy as already happens in some countries.
The BL&P should have been first split in two, a power distribution company and a power generation company by the government before this renewable energy policy push. The distribution company purchases power from various PV, Wind and Fuel generators at the same fixed rates, sells to customers and maintains distribution infrastructure.
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C.A,
I will read again when my brain is not tired. Maybe you have filled in what I thought was missing.
This is not that difficult to understand….
Think of a toy train with bells and whistles and the capacity to make steam. Think of the BU crowd full of hot air.
Come back later and hope see that the toy passenger train is still working. Hot air still blowing.
Oh heck.. I just had an idea… What about windmills.. with our supply of hot air ….
NTSH
I could have just said “Unable to contribute”
Come back later and see that the toy passenger train is still working. Hot air is still blowing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CeM9rMotMyq/
What happened to the last Director David?
Has she gone to work for Emera too?
@Bush Tea
Maybe she recused herself permanently.
LOL @ David
A little bird just suggested to the bushman that perhaps she may have been ‘reclused’ because she refused to ‘go with Emera’…
Of course, in a NORMAL country something like this would be transparent, since this person is meant to be a DEFENDER OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
So how does she just disappear just like that…?
How do we know that she wasn’t standing on principle…and lost?
You done know that Bushie gotta suspicious mind too….
But what would this shiite place do without BU though…?
@Bush Tea
Didn’t Ronald Toppin jump ship all those years ago and to this day not an explanation given to taxpayers?
True
Business as usual…..
@Bush Tea
Admit it, which modern day politician and leadership elsewhere have the balls to swim against the tide? We are a people quickly turned off by big bang interventions. The blogmaster has tested it many times in this space. We are disinterested about the issues that really matter read governance unless it is tinged with salaciousness.
FTC Barbados take note.
FTC’s Antitrust Probe of Amazon Picks Up Speed Under New Boss
Admit it, which modern day politician and leadership elsewhere have the balls to swim against the tide?
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Agreed!
Actually most don’t even come with the FACILITY for balls…
Far less to be swimming Upstream…
All kinds of ‘radical’ shiite can get by us, as a result.
Source: Nation
Source: Nation (Editorial)
Source: Nation
@ David, you said on May 31…
“The blogmaster has tested it many times in this space. We are disinterested about the issues that really matter read governance unless it is tinged with salaciousness.”
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Boss!! ….Do you STILL not grasp the concept of brass bowls?
These are empty vessels , very similar to ‘topsies’ or ‘poes’, that are most famed for making lots of ‘noise’ – but mostly shiite noise such as is associated with crap-over.
They ARE attracted to ‘salaciousness’ indeed, …like gossip, pulling other BBs down, and generally to things that smell.
Brass Bowls have NO interest in issues that abuse or debase them. Their mindsets are such that this is ‘par for the course’, and that it represents what they deserve. We are much too busy worrying about if ‘bumper-jamming’ will be allowed next month at crap-over by the Covid police, to waste time on checking into who is robbing us.
So EXACTLY what kind of inputs are you expecting from this revelation above, that some shiite FISHY is going on with this EMERA situation? …and with this ploy to squeeze another $50 million dollars or so per year out of the brass bowls?
…. to line Canadian pockets such as Hants’ and Northern’s.
The only comments that Bushie expect are another video from Hants featuring one of his women; a brief comment from NO about the great investment he has in EMERA; and a joke from Lawson about how easy it is to take candy from Brass Bowls,,,
Now if you had posted an article about a new song by Popsicle…..
@Bush Tea
It is interesting the FTC announced the meeting before canvassing intervenors to preempt any embarrassing clawback? Maybe the blogmaster is ignorant about standard procedure in these matters.
On your other point: our educated people complain and moan about high prices and related BUT are reluctant to get involved in the process by educating themselves, immersing themselves in the process etc that ultimately will determine outcomes for them read end consumer.
@ David
Your last paragraph is an oxymoron.
…unless of course you substitute ‘educated people’ with ‘brass bowls’… or at least put it in inverted commas.
IF we had truly educated people available, then we would be WELL on top of situations such as this colossal joke being paraded as a rate case.
Do you see now why Bushie is forced to persist with the brass bowl talk…?
Source: Nation
The Barbados Light & Power Company Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Emera Caribbean and currently the sole electricity utility provider in the country of Barbados.
Emera Caribbean
https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/10/21/ftc-process-continue/
Let me assure that the length of time a process takes to complete is no indication of the thoroughness of the process. Without suitable metrics we cannot reasonably say the process took too long or was too short or was thorough?
This has been a long time to complete this task and we can attribute some of this to fear of Covid-19, but were there unnecessary delays or gaps that could have moved this process forward more quickly? We have not looked at that data.
I wish to add that given the temporary increase and the constant positive comments of a minister on the the behavior of the BL&P, the public is aware that an increase will be granted. I expect that it will be in the vicinity of a 9% increase.
When it happens, please be aware it was not because I had inside knowledge or a package fell of a truck,> t was merely a full understanding of the political posturing and the games people play that gave me full insight into the shenanigans.