Guyanese were deceived on Amaila project

Guyanese were deceived

GUYANA-There are more details emerging over what pushed the new administration to start looking beyond the Amaila Falls hydro electric project.According to Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) deceived Guyana on the project. It knew that one of the financiers, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), had no client to develop the project after US-owned Sithe Global walked in 2013.The ambitious project, the country’s most has been heavily pushed by the previous administration to solve Guyana’s energy needs, with a capacity of 165 megawatts of power from the Region Eight falls site in the Kuribrong River.(Kaieteur news/ kaieteurnewsonline.com)…[+]