BVI must pay greater attention to renewable energy — Vanterpool
Fourth District Representative Mark Vanterpool has urged the government to focus its attention in the direction of renewable energy.
“I don’t know whether we have we have lost our focus or whether we are paying attention, but our focus on renewable energy, we need to pay attention to that,” Vanterpool said in the House of Assembly recently.
But the legislator noted that more is required than just simply paying attention to that resource.
“Where is our renewable energy policy? Where are we with it? How are we going to address it? How are we going to invest in it? There is need for an investment in it,” Vanterpool said.
He continued: “It requires capital investment to get renewable energy on our agenda and make it work for our territory and for the globe as a whole.”
According to Vanterpool, some 400 billion dollars was recently approved by the US government with an emphasis on renewable energy.
“What are we doing here in our little territory to emphasise renewable energy in the direction that we should be going?” he asked.
“[There is] 13- or 14- or 15 thousand homes in the territory of the Virgin Islands and everyone has forgotten that we have the sun shining down and the sun can give us energy to produce electricity in all of our homes in many ways without any major, major capital investment,” Vanterpool said.
Vanterpool made reference to a programme that he said was previously executed in the neighbouring United States Virgin Islands that allowed homeowners to attach their water heaters to renewable energy sources and said a similar programme could possibly be implemented in the BVI as part of its efforts in reducing global warming.
He said the issue of global warming is affecting local food prices and energy costs and said ultimately affects people and individual homes in the BVI.
“We think it’s in the abstract, it is not. It is facing us directly into our eyes on a day-to-day basis as the cost of shipping has almost quadrupled over the last 12 months,” Vanterpool said.
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Vanterpool coming up with all these wonderful new ideas..after 30 years in politics with nothing to show for
You had nearly ten years in the ‘chair’ as Minister of Communications and Works and I cannot think of one area that we are better off for now, than we were when you first came in to office. I deliberately avoid naming the Pier Park simply because it was more for your gain, than the people you represent, and still remains an auditing mystery to this day! Somehow you remain protected by this Government, and seemingly even the UK, while all seems to mysteriously be swept under the rug! How is that possible with so much apparent scrutiny?
Now you come with comment after comment, offering sage like advice to us lowly peasants, while you spend your ill-gotten gains on advancing your personal empire.
No Sir, I personally am sick of your duplicitous bull$hit!
not true… he pass renewable energy laws when he was in power.
and I guses it disappeared – like all the millions on that pier park hustle , and everybody thought the (
wigged one ) was a genius
And yhe irony is that he ambitously crowned himself with the name “Action Man”…and we a drank his Cool aid (~/\~)
the law still on the books… action man started the anegada project but you have to ask electricity why they have done nutting… i see you dont like the man which is your opinion buh do lie on him like so.
We have to realise that we are responsible for helping ourselves. When we have a house to wire, we go out and get electricians to do the work, but we seem to be waiting for government to install the solar panels and batteries for us. I know people who are now off the grid. Personally, I am working on starting with parts of my home because I am unable to do it all at once.