June 5th 2009
Philip Julien
Acting Chief Executive Officer
ALUTRINT
16 Mulchan Seuchan Road
Chaguanas
Professor Ken Julien
Trintoplan Compound
Orange Grove Road
Tacarigua
Trinidad and Tobago
Senator the Honourable Conrad Enill
Minister of Energy and Energy Industries
Level 26 Tower C
No 1
Wrightson Road
Port of Spain
Dear Mr Philip Julien, Professor Ken Julien, Mr Conrad Enill,
We are pleased to inform you that we, the citizens of Chatham, Vance River, La Brea, Claxton Bay, St Augustine, Port of Spain and representatives of a number of concerned groups on the West Coast, have united to approach you on a matter of urgent national importance.
Having studied many of the costs of the proposed Alutrint Smelter, we find that this entity has, and would, incur a number of grave risks to the population of Trinidad and Tobago.
We are aware that we the people, and the communities, are the ultimate stakeholders in Alutrint.
We therefore wish to request from your offices the following:
1. A meeting with you to discuss the economic viability of Alutrint.
2. A detailed accounting of the costs of Alutrint, past, current and proposed.
3. The cost-benefit analysis of the Alutrint project.
If, in your view the Alutrint smelter is economically viable, we humble request that you sit with a number of our representatives, some of whom are trained in the field of Economics, and show us the accounting, the modeling, the projection to show that this is so.
We trust that you take this opportunity provided to reassure the public of Trinidad and Tobago that Alutrint is indeed economically viable, and not another ISCOTT in the making.
P.S. This letter is being advertised on the national media of Trinidad and Tobago
Sincerely
For Representatives of eight groups.
Wayne Kublalsingh
1 Kerria Drive
La Florrissante
D’Abadie
771-5181
Representatives of Eight Groups
Rajesh Manohar
Chatham Hunters Group
Yvonne Ashby
Chatham Group for the Protection of the Environment
Dalton Dorman
Smelta Karavan
Cathal Healy-Singh
Rights Action Group
Ray Kublalsingh
Resource Protection Group of Claxton Bay
Hazel Smith
Civil Rights Association of Trinidad and Tobago
Nedra Jackson
Vessigny Village
Gary Aboud
Fishermen and Friends of the Sea
Aruna Ali
Chatham Women’s Group For the Protection of the Environment
Peter Vine
Resource Protection Group of Claxton Bay
Wayne Kublalsingh
No-Smelter Alliance of Trinidad and Tobago
Raphael Sebastian
Cedros Peninsula United
