Expert:
Gas reserves to run out in 12 years
By
Louis B Homer South Bureau
Trinidad
Express
Port
Spain
Petroleumworld.com
08 14 06
Reginald Potter, an energy expert who is on the
Chatham/Cap De Ville Environmental Group, has said
that Trinidad and Tobago's gas supplies will run
out in 12 years.
He
said it was interesting to learn that Government
was inviting foreign companies to build plants that
required natural gas to manufacture products.
"We
have 12.9 years of gas reserves and in a few years
shortages are going to occur," Potter said.
He
said that the only hope for an increase in gas supplies
was in finding new sources.
"You
cannot tell people we have gas for 35 years when
you do not have enough for more than 12 years."
Potter,
who was speaking on what were described as the dangers
of building an aluminium smelter at Chatham, predicted
that Trinidad's current boom economy was going to
be followed by a bust "in a few years time".
He
was one of several speakers giving their views on
the proposed smelter at a business luncheon hosted
by the South Trinidad Chamber of Industry and Commerce
at the chamber's conference room at Cross Crossing,
San Fernando, on Thursday.
Contributions
also came from Fitzroy Beache, president of the
Environmental Protection Group as well as environmentalist
Cathal Sealy Singh and Petra Bridgemohan.
All
the participants condemned the plan to build the
smelter and called on Alcoa, the international company
constructing it, to provide more details on the
plant.
Trinidad Express
Saturday, August 12th 2006
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