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by Trevor Browne
Over the past years, The Barbados Association of Professional Engineers (BAPE) has been trying to warn everyone who will listen that while the Barbados National Energy Policy (BNEP) is indeed a brilliant vision for Barbados’s energy future, there exists a very wide gap between excellent vision/ policy, and actual implementation and reality.
One of the most excellent energy initiatives ever expounded in Barbados was the concept of “Waste-to-Energy”, where technology is available to convert solid waste – which now represents a complex, expensive and worsening operational challenge for us as a country, into a valuable energy source to replace imported fossil fuels – another major burden on our economy.
It is difficult to conceive of a more worthwhile concept than this, that could take two major negatives and create a huge positive for the country.
We all know how that ‘great’ vision ended.
The concept of building a ‘Four Seasons’ resort on what was literally and figuratively ‘Paradise’ also represents a brilliant win-win vision with everything going for it. That too, ended up in disarray.
BAPE has the unfortunate responsibility to advise that unless urgent and fundamental changes are made to the current progression of the Barbados Sustainable Energy transformation, the brilliant vision of converting Barbados to…
