Oil, Gas, Aluminum and Steel in Trinidad and Tobago

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Oil, Gas, Aluminum and Steel in Trinidad and Tobago

“It was the best of times……. It was the worst of times…..”

(Charles Dickens-A Tale of Two Cities)

Here‘s The Real Deal

1. There are certain countries that need aluminum and steel to support their military industrial complex.

2. In Trinidad and Tobago have gas; we have flat waters for ports, and we are strategically located.

3. We contract Alcoa, China and India to make aluminum and steel.

4. We use up our most precious resources – sea beds, mangrove, fisheries, estuarine mudflats, sea grass beds, valuable port lands, lands designated for agriculture, forests, water producing dams, gas, underground water, health, communities, financial stocks in the Treasury, ambient air and climate quality, harvesting and hunting industries such as fruit farming, honey and milk farming, crab and mollusk gathering – to make steel and aluminum.

5. Countries like the United States, China and India would stand to gain economically; none of these countries will be using their own gas or land space, or destroying their communities or their ecosystem.

6. Trinidad and Tobago would lose big time: vast quantities of ital resources are converted into aluminum and steel products, into a declining US dollar, a paper economy. It is an economic disaster. Financially, the rewards are negligible. The cost of producing one job in any of these industries is prohibitive.

7. We also lose opportunity costs. We pay the price for not investing diligently and comprehensively in food, fresh water, security and alternative sources of energy.

The raping of Trinidad and Tobago’s natural resources and the inevitable destruction of the natural environment is sold to the public using cute slogans such as, gas monetization, development, industrial progress, a vision 20/20. This system of atrocity is disguised with a mask of benevolence and goodwill. In other words, it smells like development, tastes like development, walks and talks like development, but it is the very opposite: It is death producing deals. The methods are heinous. The authorities taps into State resources – land, water, soldiers, police, legal officials, compliant public servants, money, gas, institutional capacity – passes these on to chosen cabinet colleagues, who then pass them on to their relatives, be it a brother, the head of an Energy Corporation, or the movers and shakers at Alutrint. Vast amounts of state resources are passed directly through cabinet, emasculating the Parliament, the Opposition Party, the ital public servant and technocrat. They are passed in abundance and with great readiness into the hands of souls who were never elected by the people. What will be the end of all of this? Trinidad and Tobago will become a lame, limp, sold country, with a sold people. What must be done? The people must not accept the current and impending emasculation. Equipped individuals must arise among the people and deconstruct this gas agenda. We must save our country.

 Dr.Wayne Kublalsingh

(Used with his kind permission)