tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998634624110276052024-03-05T20:45:03.277-08:00Drumming Truth to Summit of AmericasEnergy Insecurity, Anti-Sustainable Development and Pauperism in Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-79094759222069523172010-05-03T15:24:00.000-07:002010-05-03T15:28:35.966-07:00View Leroy Mayers' Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Trinidad and Tobago. Filed in court of appeal.http://www.scribd.com/full/30868296?access_key=key-waobcaxe5l6tkr3jpz1Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-59304943354443257882010-05-03T10:09:00.000-07:002010-05-03T10:14:23.885-07:00Elements of a Coalition Manifesto Elements to consider: 1) T&T has no Energy Security Plan. We needed one 10 years ago when we embarked on heavy gas based industrialization and LBG exports. Today the national gas tank is much less than half empty. We are over committed. Yet China is building a smelter here and India was pursuing a Steel plant (Essar). As you know T&T was the largest supplier of LNG to the USA for Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-18515621129878434282010-05-03T09:59:00.000-07:002010-05-03T10:06:02.435-07:00WE ARE BACK....Square Deal Residents Say Illegal Smelter Works ContinueOn 14th April, 2010, Square Deal residents documented illegal foundation works taking place for Alutrint's Aluminium Smelter on Union Industrial Estate. Manning's government has spent over 0.5billion US$ so far on Alutrint and related infrastructure. In June last year the Environmental Management Authority's award of a Certificate of Environmental Clearance was "quashed" in the High Courts Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-5121372930186754232010-01-14T07:17:00.000-08:002010-01-14T07:18:08.828-08:00Check this Kaiso made in Square Dealhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR3bdBmJDskTrinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-69817467975220660682010-01-05T07:37:00.000-08:002010-01-14T07:21:08.769-08:00Deliberate Negligence Causes Judicial Crisis?<!--[if gte mso 9]> 12.00 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-2271086451447290192009-12-19T15:50:00.000-08:002009-12-19T15:52:11.864-08:00What Hugo Chavez said in Copenhagen "If the Climate was a Bank it would have been saved already"Copenhagen , Kingdom of DenmarkWednesday, December 16th, 2009President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , Hugo Chávez:Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, friends, I promise that I will not talk more than most have spoken this afternoon. Allow me an initial comment which I would have liked to make as part of the previous point which was expressed by the delegations of Brazil Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-2155626847430514552009-12-18T09:55:00.000-08:002009-12-18T09:56:07.635-08:00Real terrorists Thursday, December 17th 2009Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference 2010: <!--[if gte mso 9]> DAT datrotz 12.00 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-68695665186311365172009-12-08T15:57:00.000-08:002009-12-08T16:01:53.718-08:00Naomi Klein Kick-Starts the Activism at Copenhagen with Call for Disobedience<!--[if !mso]> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 12.00 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-40346899407445601512009-12-03T17:51:00.000-08:002009-12-03T17:53:05.035-08:00NEWS Brazilian firm partners with Govt on Alutrint Thursday, December 3rd 2009 A Brazilian industrial group will join the Government of Trinidad and Tobago as its equity partner in Alutrint's aluminium smelter plant.Votorantim Metais, the company which will sign the project agreement for the Alutrint smelter today, is the largest primary producer of aluminium in Brazil and is mainly focused on zinc and Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-60206379132107880642009-12-02T06:32:00.000-08:002009-12-02T07:00:53.387-08:00"Panit 2 Planet: Drumit 3" - The Greens on Picadilly Street, East POSThe 3rd 'Drumit' took place on 28th November to coincide with the CHOGM Heads of Government meeting. Thousands of emails and flyers were distributed. The turn out was small. Our efforts to get the attention of the foreign press were not successful. Very few international NGO representatives attended. In many regards it was not successful, the DJ with the public address system was several hours Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-6523397002491661862009-12-01T11:56:00.000-08:002009-12-02T06:15:07.223-08:00No Community Voices of Dissent allowed at CHOGMDuring CHOGM the People's Space at the Savannah was largely empty. On the three occasions that I visited there seemed to be more entertainers that visitors.The La Brea Concerned Citizens United were encouraged by Steve Theodore to participate in the People's Space. Initially they were to present a 'skit' on 23rd November. This was shifted back to the 29th (note that the NGO, Business and Youth Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-11132606728626994942009-12-01T09:10:00.001-08:002009-12-02T06:17:14.423-08:0022nd November, 2009, People's Democracy Rally Woodford Square, POSVarious groups highlighted some of the major problems that affect us today: Crime and violenceThe Property Tax - No Taxation without RepresentationContinuing high food prices and the neglect by the Government of food production by our farmers and fisherfolkThe lack of regard for transparency and accountability as evidenced by the scandals surrounding the Integrity Commission and the Uff Enquiry Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-3421121267204646572009-12-01T08:10:00.000-08:002009-12-02T06:21:02.564-08:00View from the floor at 'Sit Down' at Ministry of Energy: Groups Call again for Alutrint Cost-Benefit InformationOn Thursday 19th November, Wayne Kublalsingh led a 'sit down protest' at the entrance to the Ministry of Energy & Energy Resources seeking cost-benefit information on the viability of Alutrint, the State proposed aluminium smelter. He was joined by Environmental Engineer, Cathal Healy-Singh and Square Deal Residents Abigail Modeste and Leon Modeste.Just before being removed by police, the Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-22166215582010297972009-11-21T17:13:00.000-08:002009-11-21T17:19:51.154-08:00Playing for Change.............PANIT 2 PLANET DRUMIT 3<!--[if gte mso 9]> 12.00 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-14610025567312409062009-11-17T19:51:00.000-08:002009-11-17T20:01:17.679-08:00Join the Dots...Balco to Alutrint.... Moratorium on smelters in India and Trinidad now. People are being destroyed. Who is paying for this?<!--[if gte mso 9]> 12.00 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-89594154998527118312009-11-16T15:32:00.000-08:002009-11-16T15:57:53.375-08:00Eco-cide and Destruction of valuable water resources in Northern Range (Cumaca) continuing with paceThis is what you have to thank Penelope Beckles, Elenor Dick-Forde Gaynor, Conrad Enil and Patrick Manning for. So hungry are they for quarry aggregate - they only see economic values - that they do not see the long term social-environmental costs. This is proof T&T is on anti-sustainable development path.They are cutting the mountains down and filling the rivers. Gone are the fish. Gone is Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-70950777470825536492009-11-09T14:28:00.000-08:002009-11-09T14:49:55.945-08:00Hypocrite!!!!!...My god how did we get like this?
This is a picture which appeared in a report by the Guardian Newspaper, dated 1st November, 2009, of WITCO Executive Director, Sheldon Taitt, Arima MP Penelope Beckles and Asa Wright Nature Centre's Chairman Carol James, together in a symbolic tree planting at the Centre on 23rd October.
I almost fell over when I read the story...Carol apparently said "stop the rape of the Northern Range to Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-46163650408494244152009-11-03T20:48:00.000-08:002009-11-03T20:52:44.185-08:00A local Newspaper rejected the following which were submitted as paid advertisements to counter Alutrint's daily propoganda. (Click to Enlarge)Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-33871317691751907322009-11-03T20:46:00.000-08:002009-11-09T14:54:53.200-08:00Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-24032980050472334222009-11-03T20:44:00.000-08:002009-11-09T14:54:31.333-08:00Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-53197101534395765272009-11-03T20:40:00.000-08:002009-11-09T14:54:12.490-08:00Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-83095586742057592392009-11-03T20:36:00.000-08:002009-11-09T14:53:33.074-08:00Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-79685125436139504132009-11-03T20:33:00.000-08:002009-11-09T14:53:06.722-08:00Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-65152703325947303032009-11-03T20:23:00.000-08:002009-11-09T14:52:25.848-08:00Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299863462411027605.post-34317700300270441712009-10-12T10:13:00.000-07:002009-10-12T10:24:48.773-07:00Outside entrance to Union Industrial EstateAlutrint put up scores of banners throughout La Brea 'thanking La Brea for "welcoming" Alutrint into their community.In the second picture Alutrint's Family Day banner invites the public to "Hear what is really going on in La Brea from Real La Brea residents".Anti-smelter communities of Sobo, Vessigny, Vance River and Union Villages responded with "Cancer Zone". Some 4,100 persons live in these Trinidad and Tobagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999373897339041931noreply@blogger.com0