Georgetown : Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett told the National Assembly at its last sitting yesterday that the Guyana Government will be moving towards conducting pre-feasibility and feasibility studies on the development of a hydropower project in the Mazaruni.
The Minister was at the time providing an update on the progress of discussions between Guyana and Brazil with regards to the Memorandum of Understanding on Infrastructure Development which was signed between the two countries on December 5, 2013, with the aim of stimulating projects in the area of hydropower, road development and the construction of a deep water port.
The MOU established a Guyana-Brazil Joint Technical Group with a mandate to produce proposals for concrete actions, as well as timetables for the implementation of four projects, to be presented to the Presidents of both states. These projects were; the construction of hydroelectric plants, construction of transmission lines needed to distribute any energy that will be generated eventually, improvement of the Guyana-Brazil road link and the construction of a deep water port.
Minister Rodrigues-Birkett informed the National Assembly that after four meetings of the Joint Technical Working Group, a report was submitted in July 2013 to the Presidents of the two states. The Minister told the House that among the recommendations in the report is that the pre-feasibility and feasibility studies be carried out at two sites in the Middle and Upper Mazaruni in order to make a final determination on the way forward with respect to hydropower development. She that Government will be moving to commence briefing with the parties represented in the National Assembly and other stakeholders, including the communities in Middle and Upper Mazaruni in the next few weeks, on the studies.
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