Energy crisis: The solutions ignored

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• kweks 10 years ago

  Yoo we have heard. Stop the mourning and grumbling and dwin hwe kan. Lets look forward and work hard to fix it forever. Get behind PresJM and fix it

  Yoo we have heard. Stop the mourning and grumbling and dwin hwe kan. Lets look forward and work hard to fix it forever. Get behind PresJM and fix it

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• Kwaku Gloenawo 10 years ago

  Why did't VRA make this information public until now? Intellectual dishonesty I call it. Secondly if the Min. of Energy had this information, why didn't they shut Valco down? How much has Valco contributed to the economy over ...
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  Why did't VRA make this information public until now? Intellectual dishonesty I call it. Secondly if the Min. of Energy had this information, why didn't they shut Valco down? How much has Valco contributed to the economy over the period? Did the President have the full picture or he was misled by some inteelectuals?
  Even though a lot of damage has been caused, we cannot move forward if we do not take action against those responsible, if we don't, it will be like sweeping the dust under the carpet and we will repeat this same mistake if not in energy, somewhere else in the economy.

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• Ghanaba 10 years ago

  How do you shut down VALCO, an industrial company, in favor of power for partying and holidaying.

  How do you shut down VALCO, an industrial company, in favor of power for partying and holidaying.

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• Kwame 10 years ago

  Yeah after the fact you tell us about slides. The people have dumsor as a legacy due to you in part. What about SOLAR ENERGY??? The sun is free from God!!!!!!!!!

  Yeah after the fact you tell us about slides. The people have dumsor as a legacy due to you in part. What about SOLAR ENERGY??? The sun is free from God!!!!!!!!!

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• BlackC 10 years ago

  If this issue was more in the general public conversation it would have given VRA more backing in making its case.
  
  So, the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum having this vital information, I'm curious to know what did it d ...
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  If this issue was more in the general public conversation it would have given VRA more backing in making its case.
  
  So, the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum having this vital information, I'm curious to know what did it decide to do in order to address this potential crisis?

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• Gabby 10 years ago

  this is a bogus suggestion, instead of thinking how we can generate more power to bring more companys on their feet of running you are rather suggesting an existing company to be closed down. If VALCO is down today then tomor ...
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  this is a bogus suggestion, instead of thinking how we can generate more power to bring more companys on their feet of running you are rather suggesting an existing company to be closed down. If VALCO is down today then tomorrow too you will suggeste another company. You are not an industrial minded person.

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• whisky 10 years ago

  I agree with u,we should be thinking outside the box and not to destroy what we already have.

  I agree with u,we should be thinking outside the box and not to destroy what we already have.

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• BlackC 10 years ago

  If you read the article, these were options provided about two years ago to soften the blow from the impending power crisis and not to shut down VALCO forever. VRA was not presenting a 10-20 year plan of power infrastructure. ...
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  If you read the article, these were options provided about two years ago to soften the blow from the impending power crisis and not to shut down VALCO forever. VRA was not presenting a 10-20 year plan of power infrastructure.
  
  You would like Ghana to build a couple of power plants, as reserve, to help the situation but obviously they weren't going to be built in the amount of time needed to assist the most exhausted power generators - Hydro - which was already under strain.

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• TOM 10 years ago

  Long time ago successive governments should have boosted the power sector by thinking 20 years ahead. These myopic leaders saw Ghana to be forever a third world country that will never develop. They saw only Accra as the hub ...
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  Long time ago successive governments should have boosted the power sector by thinking 20 years ahead. These myopic leaders saw Ghana to be forever a third world country that will never develop. They saw only Accra as the hub for industrialisation forgetting entirely the rural areas where the bulk have travelled outside to find greener pastures due to their bad management of the nation. We have 7 great rivers and still sleep in darkness and the icing is to close Valco to use the energy. too many criminal in high positions. get the dead goat and the living wolfs out.

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• BlackC 10 years ago

  It was a choice. Either shutdown VALCO (in 2013) or deal with dumsor now.
  
  If shutting down VALCO was the "Mad Decision" how is dumsor working out for us now?
  
  Lesson Learned - Politicians, even in the United States, as ...
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  It was a choice. Either shutdown VALCO (in 2013) or deal with dumsor now.
  
  If shutting down VALCO was the "Mad Decision" how is dumsor working out for us now?
  
  Lesson Learned - Politicians, even in the United States, as a collective do what is expedient and keeps them office. It's the strong institutions outside of government - Think Tanks, Occupy's, Community Org's, NGO's that put light on issues and kicks the politicians butt into dealing with the long term future design of what Ghana's people need in order to be sustainable.

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