Punta Catalina vs Renewable Energy

The world’s environmental stratagem is rapidly shifting towards renewable energy, this is not yet the case in the lush tropical paradise Dominican Republic.

A Coal Power plant is currently being built southwest of the Half Island in the coastal town of Baní and construction advances undeterred by Dominican Citizen’s public outcry .The competitive bidding of the project was handed to the Brazilian Conglomerate Odebretch out of 4 other international participants under suspicious circumstances. Linked to hundreds of bribes and payouts all throughout Latin America & even Africa, Odebretcht admitted handing 92 million dollars to various Dominican Senators and Congressmen during the years 2001 to 2014, in recent trials in Brazil following the “Car Wash Operation’s” investigation and evidence.

Nonetheless the Punta Catalina Project’s tender was handed to Odebrecht in 2013 despite the overvaluation of the projects costs various oversights by the overseeing consulting firm and the Dominican congress of the requisites.

With a cost of US$1,945,000,000 the ongoing construction and its imminent completion by 2018 is a gigantic stride backwards from the environmentally responsible changes most of the world has committed to as well as a blatant insult and embarrassment to the Dominican People.