MS. JANETTE Bulkan has surfaced yet again with more misrepresentations and I am wondering why is she pursuing what can only be termed an unpatriotic and anti-national agenda? Her hobby horse has been the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS); then she jumped into issues about mangrove trees which help protect Guyana’s coastal shoreline and sustain the eco-system. Now she is against the Amaila Falls project in a letter published in the Kaieteur News of March 29, 2010.
She clearly does not do her homework before criticising or pontificating on national issues.
I noted with interest the Ministry of Finance’s response in yesterday’s Guyana Chronicle which stated quite clearly that the government has pursued the Amaila Falls project in an open, public nature. And information on it is publicly available.
According to the ministry, Bulkan’s letter “represents merely the latest installment in what appears to be habitual nay saying by a small, disgruntled and politically motivated minority who see no good in the progressive and transformative initiatives being implemented by this Government.”
As was stated before, the Amaila Falls hydropower project will convert this country’s energy supply, from one that is almost entirely sourced from fossil fuels to one that is almost entirely renewable.
It has long been in the planning stages and now that it is finally getting off the ground, Bulkan launches an attack.
I agree with the Ministry of Finance that the implications on the reliability and affordability of power, along with the attendant benefits to our nation’s competitiveness should be obvious for all to see.
And I too, against this background, cannot help wondering what motives and hidden agendas lie behind this latest attempt to distort the facts.
Bulkan and others like her seem to be aligned with opposition parties that criticise government policies merely for the sake of criticism instead of offering constructive and material views that may help the national development process from which all Guyanese can benefit.