Chartered Accountant, Civil Activist and Attorney-at-Law, Christopher Ram, fears that the developers of the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project may be operating outside the confines of the law.Ram said that the developers currently do not possess a substantive licence and are just operating with the one purchased from Makeshwar Fip Motilall, which was an interim licence.According to Ram,Cheap NFL Jerseys, the Guyana Hydroelectric Power Act sets out the procedures upon which a licence could be granted. Sithe Global which purchased the Interim Licence from Fip Motilall is yet to be furnished with a substantive licence for the project.Ram said that Motilall screwed up so much that there were 10 interim licence. This was eventually sold to Sithe Global but according to Ram in order to have a final licence the developing entity has to satisfy certain requirement such as agreements with the Public Utilities Commission as well as illustrate documented arrangements with the relevant organizations as well as the end user.He explained that with an interim licence some work can still be done but that Sithe Global now needs a substantive licenceAt present, Ram states that anybody could go to court and say “This is madness” and “inconsistent with the law” and should not be done.Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, the Minister with responsibility for the energy sector, had informed the populace that Motilall and his partners had expended cash and had invested lots of unpaid time in the development since he first began in 1997 and from the work done along the way unto the entry of Sithe Global in 2007, an estimate of cash expenditure approaching US$5M and unpaid time and other costs exceeding US$5M.The Prime Minister said that since the mid-1980s Amaila was recognized to be an interesting site “for development, perhaps the site that best matched our needs.”He said that Motilall began considering and pursuing that development in 1997; applied for and was granted an MOU in early 1998 on which he had Kleinschmidt and Assoc of Portland,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, Maine, make a desktop prefeasibility study.Documented evidence showed that Motilall signed a Memorandum of Understanding on May 23,nfl jerseys wholesale, 2006. The signatories were Prime Minister Hinds; Ronald Alli,Cheap Jerseys From China, as Chairman of Guyana Power and Light; and Makeshwar Fip Motilall on behalf of Synergy Holdings Inc.Hinds said too, “With a favourable outcome, Mr Motilall continued working,Cheap Womens Jordan Sneakers, seeking partners at that stage and had HARZA Engineering (now MWH) prepare a feasibility study, partly for cash payment and partly for a carried interest.“On the basis of the positive Feasibility Study an Interim Licence was applied for and granted in 2002 and work continued with the production of an EIA. Financial and all other closure were close at hand with Scudder Latin America Fund and Leucadia about to take the lead, but among other things oil price was low, less than US$30/barrel; financing costs were high for this then purely privately financed project; the projected cost for electricity was greater than electricity from HFO fuelled stations, and the outward repayment cash flows were greater than fuel purchase flows. That arrangement fell apart.”He justified Motilall selling the licence to Sithe Global.“Synergy won the interest and attention of Sithe Global, now a part of the Blackstone Group. In time, as Sithe Global worked its way into the role of leading partner to take the Amaila Falls Hydropower project to construction and operation, on the request of Synergy and on the Government’s own consideration and demand, a new Interim Licence was issued in the name of Sithe Global in October 2009.”