Enill:
Renewable energy on Govt agenda
By Driselle Ramjohn
Trinidad Express
Port Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com
08 26 07
The Government has commenced discussions with
respect to the production of renewable sources
of energy, said Minister in the Ministry of Finance
Conrad Enill.
Enill was addressing members of the Trinidad and
Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce at its
annual post-budget panel discussions at Westmoorings
yesterday.
Ian
Welch, former Chamber president and chief executive
officer of PCS Nitrogen, said: "In
terms of looking at renewable resources in the
case of Algeria which has significant reserves
clean green power utilising solar and gas. As a
people and as a country the responsible thing to
do is to start looking at renewable resources,
not because of the fear that we may be running
out of reserves."
Enill
said: "We have started the discussions
but we have also expanded it to deal with issues
about the environment. One of the challenges that
we face in an oil and gas structure is that we
have not spent sufficient time looking at the issue
of the environment and in some instances now we
are seeing the instance of the effects of that.
"We have started some discussions on looking
at the alternative energy agenda and some of the
discussions we have had (were) with the producer
companies. The directions we wanted to go in we
have been advised not to go there because of their
personal experiences," he added.
On
the topic of renewable energy, Chamber president
Ian Collier said: "Our energy committee is
committed to the tackling this issue and is already
looking deeply into the situation and recommendations
could be made in the foreseeable future."
- dramjohn@trinidadexpress.com
Trinidad
Express
Wednesday, August 22nd 2007
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