Correct Approach to Energy needed

“THE USE of renewable sources of energy needs access to technology, and technique are also required to use that technology,” Deputy Prime Minister Haslyn Parris said at the opening of an Energy Week exhibition at the museum, this week.

Mr. Parris noted that financial resources are also necessary to use those renewable sources of energy.

He said that people should not depend solely on non-renewable sources and economic assessments should be made of the various possibilities.

It may be economic sense for example, to encourage people to use mass transportation and to consider the irrational action of driving alone in a vehicle designed for more persons, Parris observed.

“We should consider the norms of supply of our pursuit, since energy use is based on the question of norm that is self-imposed, and it is a matter of the development of energy resources,” he explained.

Mr. Parris expressed the view that the theme “Energy for Today and Tomorrow” captured the correct systematic approach to energy.

In delivering the opening remarks, Executive Chairman of the Guyana Natural Resources Agency (GNRA) Mr. Winston King, said that critical to the success of the Economic Recovery Programme is the production of enough energy and power to make the programme succeed.

He said that it is time to alert the public to some possibilities around us and that problems relating to energy should be addressed throughout the year.