Produce the evidence – Jagdeo to Patterson on AFHP electricity cost

…as VP threatens to haul MP

The People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) will have Alliance For Change (AFC) point man on oil and gas, David Patterson, brought before the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges if he cannot back up recent claims he made that the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) would have sold electricity at 26 cents per kilowatt.

Making this threat was Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, during a recent interview on social media. During the interview, Jagdeo pointed out that the AFC and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) have a track record of trying to derail this project despite the transformational good it would do to the country.

He said that one such attempt was to claim that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) did not support the project. Jagdeo also challenged Patterson’s claim that an analysis found AFHP would have produced electricity at 25 cents per kilowatt. According to Jagdeo, this number is actually 10 cents per kilowatt and he has asked Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira, to ensure Patterson is made to prove his assertion.

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been 25 cents per kilowatt hour.”

“I’ve asked Gail Teixeira to write the Speaker, that if he cannot produce the report in Parliament that says the price for power would have been 25 cents, he must face the Committee of Privileges,” Jagdeo said.

According to Jagdeo, the APNU and AFC Opposition and even sections of the media went on a spree of spreading lies about the project. He noted some of the other things they said, including that the Amaila Falls would run dry and there would be no power. This is despite the fact that there would have been a reservoir.

“They claimed that IDB was not supportive of the project from the beginning. IDB throughout was supportive of the project. Was going to raise US$100 million for the project. The cost of power would have been about 10 cents per kilowatt per hour. He claimed he had a report that it would have