I know this scenario is unlikely here but, what are the implications of this on The Bahamas' interest in LNG pipelines.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/12/26/ap3282132.html

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I know this scenario is unlikely here but, what are the implications of this on The Bahamas' interest in LNG pipelines.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/12/26/ap3282132.html
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Gas and LNG are very different.
Maybe LNG could finance the healthcare we need in the Bahamas. The company payback for their investment of three hundred fifty million dollars is less than two years. This may be a good chance for the Bahamian public to profit at the grass route level.

I know this scenario is unlikely here but, what are the implications of this on The Bahamas' interest in LNG pipelines.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/12/26/ap3282132.html


Let LNG ride the course. If it is good, it will survive. Personally, I am not well versed on the issue. But, if people have issue, let it take its time to settle it up.

Fact is, no matter how you pretty it up. It will "alter" our eco-system. Will the benefits, outwiegh the cost for all of us?
I doubt it, especially if they go ahead and we do not, or, someone can not show me where it will show up in our gas or energy bill, on the minues side. And even more so, if it is a US firm, who will rake in profits...where does that leave Bahamian proffit, in ourown land?
Please don't tell me Allyson Maynard's law firm...my Gawd don't say that.

Show me the money. I am glad Leslie stood firm on this one. Thank God someone has our interest first and foremost. Maybe he is the best choice for Trade and Consumer advocacy after all. For the mere fact that, he saw a deal, investigated it, and then pulled back when he saw we may have more cost than benefit.

When we speak of energy, we have to talk about the enegry we can create and the enegy it may cost to run the whole damn thing. By the time we sift through that, it may cost us the same damn thing as before, with out reefs destroyed in the process. So, no fishing and no cheaper gas.

Just because it is a PLP initiative, should you support it blindly.
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speaking of alternative energy, does anyone know of a BAHAMIAN company that is doing anything in the wind or solar energy space?

thanks!

Let LNG ride the course. If it is good, it will survive. Personally, I am not well versed on the issue. But, if people have issue, let it take its time to settle it up.
Fact is, no matter how you pretty it up. It will "alter" our eco-system. Will the benefits, outwiegh the cost for all of us?
I doubt it, especially if they go ahead and we do not, or, someone can not show me where it will show up in our gas or energy bill, on the minues side. And even more so, if it is a US firm, who will rake in profits...where does that leave Bahamian proffit, in ourown land?
Please don't tell me Allyson Maynard's law firm...my Gawd don't say that.
Show me the money. I am glad Leslie stood firm on this one. Thank God someone has our interest first and foremost. Maybe he is the best choice for Trade and Consumer advocacy after all. For the mere fact that, he saw a deal, investigated it, and then pulled back when he saw we may have more cost than benefit.
When we speak of energy, we have to talk about the enegry we can create and the enegy it may cost to run the whole damn thing. By the time we sift through that, it may cost us the same damn thing as before, with out reefs destroyed in the process. So, no fishing and no cheaper gas.
Just because it is a PLP initiative, should you support it blindly.
:)


If I supported this initiative blindly would I have started this thread? I don't know what the implications of implementing LNG pipelines are for our country. I don't know how much money is to be made. I don't know what the risks are, but more importantly, is it worth the deep divisions that this issue represents?

speaking of alternative energy, does anyone know of a BAHAMIAN company that is doing anything in the wind or solar energy space?
thanks!


I think there is a compant selling solar water heating packages. I don't know of anything more than that. I recently came across a company in The US that sells windmills and solar packages that were not too expensive. When I get my PC up and running again I think it is in my favourites.

If I supported this initiative blindly would I have started this thread? I don't know what the implications of implementing LNG pipelines are for our country. I don't know how much money is to be made. I don't know what the risks are, but more importantly, is it worth the deep divisions that this issue represents?


Well, sorry for mis-interpreting you. But us asking the questions at this stage, signifies our lack of interest on it. Let this thing play out by the actors involved. My thing is, show me the long term cost, and why should I believe that it would be a benefit to my country, despite the rising cost of global energy and other factors. This is the only thing for me. But, to alleviate energy cost for the short term, for a long term initiatve, to only let the long term cost skyrocket and stay at a fixed high price, due to factors that we can not control, is a gamble I don't think the Bahamas is willing to take. No matter how hard Ally Maynard gripes about wanting the contract go to her firm. Our eco system, fish, reefs and crawfish are important parts of our daily lives now. We should not tamper with it, if we can not be assured a long term benefit, to substitute the surplus we have now.

To this day, no one has laid out the cost or how it would look on paper, the total and true profit of this LNG thing, in light of global tension; currently instable oil prices and US greedy need to dominate foreign markets. All of this plays a factor, wen we talk about energy, especially energy possibilities, generated and to be profitted by soley foreign investors.

So I een into da askin no more. Show me your figures. They have not done that and for that matter, it appears that they do not want to show us the variables on their profit strategy. That says something.
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