– Dr Roger LuncheonDr Roger LuncheonA forceful approach to having squatters removed from the Lamaha Railway Embankment will not be ruled out, if the area is not cleared by next month end.Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon made this disclosure yesterday when he hosted his weekly Post Cabinet press briefing.He said that, already, materials for the generating plant have arrived in Guyana and are stored at the site of the former Guyana Agricultural and Industrial Development Bank building at Barrack and Parade Streets,Cheap Adidas Hockey Jerseys, a situation which now requires that the squatters relocate to areas they were assigned by the Ministry of Housing.“In my 16 years here, we (the Government) have not been that forceful, but that option cannot be excluded.? If those itinerant farmers are not removed, it is going to delay the implementation of the construction and inevitably cause an escalation in the cost. These considerations might introduce a more forceful approach to having the embankment cleared,” Dr Luncheon speculated.According to him,Wholesale Jerseys, Cabinet met last Monday and offered its “no objection” to a $177 million contract for the purpose of the construction of the foundation for the 21-megawatt power generating plant at Kingston. It is expected that the completion of this project will serve to replace the generating plant that is currently being utilised.The new plant’s transmission lines will cover approximately five kilometres between Kingston and Sophia, and will be strategically routed along the Lamaha embankment.At the moment,Cheap Jerseys, GPL is preparing tender documents for the construction of the lines, which will also have to pass through Owen Street and Drury Lane,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, an undertaking will which see poles being placed about 10 feet away from buildings.The old GPL Power Station at KingstonGPL Projects Manager Lennox McGreggor recently disclosed that it is estimated that the total cost of the power plant will amount to about US$27 M. He had also disclosed that the plant will allow GPL to experience a significant reduction in operational costs.Yesterday, Dr Luncheon said that the old plant has been described by some as a ‘monstrosity,’ both because of its age and the cost it incurs when efforts are made to bring it on and off line.“Indeed,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, it has to go; it has been mothballed and been brought out under the most difficult of circumstances to respond to the most acute of emergencies. We need to bury it, it has been dead for some time now,” Dr Luncheon asserted.The entire project, according to McGreggor, is slated to be completed by the end of June, thus paving the way for the phasing out and ultimate decommissioning of the old plant.