by Larry Smith
The US Department of State and the Organization of American States are staging a two-day regional conference on alternative energy at the Sheraton Cable Beach Hotel in Nassau July 23-24.
American Ambassador to the Bahamas, Ned Sigel; Bahamas Environment Minister, Earl Deveaux; Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle; Dan Arvizu, director of the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory; and Robert Mosbacher, president of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, will be among the featured speakers.
At the conference, Caribbean energy officials, energy producers, and aid donors will discuss strengthening support for regional renewable energy projects. The US Embassy in Nassau will also sponsor a business roundtable to discuss public-private partnerships for energy development, financing, and technology in the region.
The roundtable is being organised by Florida International University's Energy Business Forum.
The private sector is invited to sit in on the proceedings of the Caribbean Regional Sustainable Energy High Level Seminar on July 23, and take part in discussions the following day aimed at advancing the deployment of renewable energy technologies in the region.
Additional speakers will include high-level officials from the American government, the OAS, CARICOM, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
We need to change the laws in freeport Grand Bahamas which does not allow solar panels , wind generaters or solar hot water heaters, The port is only interested in making money , not the well being of its people
Posted by: fred | July 23, 2008 at 08:22 AM
How can that be?? Last time I looked Freeport was still a part of the Bahamas? Or did we sell Freeport? I was going under the assumption that we only had one law, the laws that govern the Comonwealth of the Bahamas. I guess I was wrong!!!
Posted by: JP Michielsen | January 29, 2009 at 02:46 PM