KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister, Dr. Terrance Drew, Tuesday stated that the twin-island Federation is quickly to embark upon geothermal drilling after his administration had agreed with the opposition on the necessity for a united strategy in direction of creating the challenge.
Addressing the seventh sitting of the Organisation of Jap Caribbean States (OECS) Meeting, being held below the theme “Strengthening Regional Unity in a Shifting International Order,” Prime Minister Drew stated that Nevis has enriched deposits of geothermal and is “one of many largest within the Caribbean.
“It’s very accessible based mostly on all of the research. 5 C’s (Caribbean Neighborhood Local weather Change Centre) stated that Nevis has probably the most accessible geothermal in the entire area. That’s their examine, though Dominica has gone forward, which, after all, we applaud and look to.
“However due to the Federal system of St. Kitts and Nevis, nobody authorities would ever have the chance to leverage that until there’s cooperation between authorities and opposition…within the nation.”
Drew informed the Meeting that he sat with the Opposition Chief within the Twin Island Federation, “and he and I made a decision, this useful resource, we is not going to have any dispute, we are going to strategy it as a single entity.
“And now we have executed that. Have a look at the outcomes that now we have gotten. Now we have reached the purpose now the place we’re about to open…drilling for geothermal, one thing that might not have been executed for many years due to political strife”.
Prime Minister Drew stated that his message to the Meeting, which opposition legislators are attending, is that “there are issues we are going to all the time disagree, we are able to disagree on 95.55 %, however there needs to be one or two main issues that we should agree on”.
He stated that such a coverage can advance not solely the person international locations within the sub-regional grouping but in addition the area as an entire.
“So, my message is, allow us to proceed to work to deliver larger unification, which can end in advantages to all of us, and I need to use St. Kitts-Nevis for instance,” he informed the Meeting, a regional parliament consisting of consultant parliamentarians from all OECS member states, each authorities and opposition.
Earlier this 12 months, the federal government introduced that it had taken a “monumental step in direction of vitality independence” and secured the total financing required to launch the Federation’s first geothermal vitality challenge.
It stated that this landmark achievement propels the Federation nearer to its aim of turning into a Sustainable Island State, lowering reliance on fossil fuels and slashing vitality prices for residents.
The federal government acknowledged that the geothermal vitality challenge aligns with its ongoing efforts to advertise renewable vitality, together with its 50-megawatt photo voltaic farm initiative. With vitality prices poised to drop considerably, St. Kitts & Nevis is ready to draw new industries, stimulate job creation, and improve nationwide resilience to international vitality shocks.
The OECS contains the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla, and the British Virgin Islands.
