The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

GOVERNMENT transparency in how Government is doing business was one of the big election issues for the FNM - remember all the noise almost blaspheming that went on over the privacy of the Agreements on Baha Mar and The Pointe now two projects which the FNM - Minnis/D’Aguilar have taken as theirs and never speak bad about them.

This OBAN ENERGIES refinery project - the sole word to describe the FNM process is stealth - it is totally unacceptable that Minnis will sign a MOU this Monday and we the public know absolutely nothing.

Location - all we know east Grand Bahama. Has BEST approved?

Principals? Google search comes up with some surprises, not good ones, especially when it certainly seems to indicate Oban might not have all the experience that Minnis talks about.

What happened to the acquiring of the old Hess refinery in St Croix which the same principals were directly involved in? Through Monarch Energies they didn’t even qualify for the Liquidators, Lizards of NY to include them for the bidding process. Are they qualified? Which refinery have they operated? Environment - nothing - has an EIA been done? Now remember election was May 2017 we are not even at nine-months since then.

Transparency - the FNM in Opposition screamed against the PlP the public needs to know - hmm things change it seems when the FNM are in office.

Town Planning - has this even been applied for? When was the hearing? Were residents in the immediate area of East GB advised and could they give their input? A refinery affects public health safety – the air the residents breathe. Employment – Minnis stop fooling us – to construct a refinery you need highly trained welders –- the Grand Bahama Shipyard can’t find them and they bring them in from Europe and Peru – nothing will change ‘OOO’s of foreign workers.

W THOMPSON

Nassau,

February 17, 2018.