Trinidad plans Caribbean's first man-made island
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The Government is moving full speed ahead with its billion-dollar plans to construct a man-made island off the Oropouche coast in the Gulf of Paria, to accommodate heavy, gas-based industries.
The National Energy Corporation (NEC) hired an Italian engineering firm, Technital, in July, to conduct the preliminary design work for the man-made industrial island.
It is proposed that the project, which is being called the Oropouche Bank Reclamation, will be be an estimated 1,400 hectares (about 3,500 acres).
The island will be located five kilometres offshore and directly opposite the Mosquito Creek cremation site.
The NEC’s intention to construct the offshore island, which is also called Otaheite Bank, was publicised when Prime Minister Patrick Manning, in a televised Christmas Day address to the nation in 2006, announced that the Government was discontinuing all plans to establish an Alcoa aluminium smelter at Chatham in Cedros.
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Monday 13 October, 2008 05:22 PM |
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