West Indies Power GM – Mr. Rawlinson Issac
Charlestown, Nevis
August 12, 2008
General Manager of West Indies Power Nevis Ltd. (WIP) M. Rawlinson Isaac, said that the company had every intention to fulfill its promise to the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) and the people of Nevis, to provide cheaper sustainable energy. He praised Premier of Nevis Hon. Joseph Parry for his foresight to allow geothermal explorations to commence on the island.
He made the remark while he officially handed over a gazebo and bus stand at the Five Turnings in Cotton Ground Village to Premier of Nevis and Area Representative Hon. Joseph Parry, at a ceremony on August 08, 2008.
“Our [WIP] intention and we have promised the Premier that we will provide this country with cheap and sustainable electricity, no outages whatsoever. Don’t worry [when] you hear people talking all kinds of nonsense, the resource is here, we are here to extract it to develop that resource, to operate and to produce electricity. There is no mystery about it, it happens all over the world. Iceland is doing it for almost 100 years; Italy, the United States provides about 2,000 mega watts; Russia, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey, Taiwan [and] in the Caribbean we have Guadeloupe. So we are saying that we have a tremendous power base here and that we have to extract it for our own utility.
“I want you [Nevisians] to commend and to give really top cheers to the Premier because when we [WIP] approached him about geothermal, although it has been around for quite some time, he had the vision and not only the vision, he also had the courage – because I would imagine all those times people talking about volcano and earthquake if you attempt to drill – to stand up to all those concerns and to give West Indies Power the license to explore,” he said.
