(Kaieteur News) – The government could have “killed two birds with one stone” by purchasing generator sets to meet growing electricity demand while awaiting the Wales Gas-to-Energy Project, instead of leasing two power ships at a cost of millions of dollars daily, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament Ganesh Mahipaul said on Friday.

Mahipaul was responding to questions from this publication on the recently renewed contract with Turkish powership company Karpowership, signed at an increased cost, and what his party would have done differently.

He said the first step would have been to respect the project’s original feasibility study and work within the framework it laid out, rather than proceeding into what he described as an exploratory phase without knowing the full implications.