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09-04-2008, 05:00 PM
Lawyer Marisol Vicens writes today in El Caribe that missing from the electricity negotiations, where the government is deciding on its next steps for dealing with blackouts and high electricity costs, were the consumers. Neither industrial nor residential consumers were present, only the government and generation and distribution companies.
She criticizes the lack of transparency for new contracting of generation for which the government undertakes financial commitments, despite the high cost to taxpayers in the future, and expresses concern that these contracts will be more of the same nightmarish contracts signed by this and past governments. She also criticizes the fact that the agreement shows a lack of political will to deal with theft of electricity, estimated at 50%. "Definitely politics has no room in the equation that will solve the electricity problem, and while politics prevails, consumers will continue to be excluded from the discussions, and at the mercy of the authorities and electrical companies, that outside of public controversies have always had a good understanding among themselves," she concludes.
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She criticizes the lack of transparency for new contracting of generation for which the government undertakes financial commitments, despite the high cost to taxpayers in the future, and expresses concern that these contracts will be more of the same nightmarish contracts signed by this and past governments. She also criticizes the fact that the agreement shows a lack of political will to deal with theft of electricity, estimated at 50%. "Definitely politics has no room in the equation that will solve the electricity problem, and while politics prevails, consumers will continue to be excluded from the discussions, and at the mercy of the authorities and electrical companies, that outside of public controversies have always had a good understanding among themselves," she concludes.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)