“We are not major contributors to climate change, but we are
major victims.”
Laugh still... |
St Lucia imports 1.4 million barrels of oil a year. 4%
increase. $300 million. Three times ten years ago.
Alternative energy is still a pipe dream in St Lucia. Apart
from wasting solar energy on heating water and the few private farmers who turn
their livestock poop into energy, St Lucia is a little gold mine for the Trinidadian
oil exporters. We’ve just done nothing to our own benefit when it comes to
energy. Even while Vanuatu and Fiji proved that coconut oil worked in diesel
engines, we listened to people who told us that coconut oil was useless. We
made edible coconut oil when no one wanted it and no that they want it, our
factory is dead. Only one producer has figured out that virgin coconut is the
way to go and his stuff isn’t even on the shelves anymore.
It almost sounds like we were sabotaging ourselves. I mean
someone had to get paid to ensure that we remained this stupid. It couldn’t
have happened for free.
Not photoshop...climate change is real.. |
But the government is still thinking of wind, solar and
geothermals. There’s no talk of bio-fuels. And that’s what we can do fastest,
cheapest and best. The diesel engine is just waiting for us to get real.
Government imagines that there can be 50 small energy
producers on the electricity grid. Perhaps the garbage energy friends of Guy
Joseph could be among them. Incentives for that will come later in the year.
Also a special loan facility at SLDB for this. No word on when LUCELEC’s
monopoly on generating electricity will meet its well-deserved demise.
Already, 50 LED street lights have been installed in the
city, while VF, Gros Islet, Soufriere all get more lighting, some of it secondhand
from Castries.
As for the pollution, the Refundable Containers Act takes
aim. One would think that between DuBoulay, SMJ and the bottled water people
they would have figured out how to take responsibility for themselves, but
apparently not. They will have to be legally forced to stop polluting the whole
damned island.
There was opposition to this in the past. One wonders who
would open their mouth and oppose recycling.
There was opposition to this in the past. One wonders who would open their mouth and oppose recycling. coconut water benefits
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