An important component of our long term
development plan is to secure reliable power and energy from eco-friendly sustainable
sources. Early this year, preliminary
work to locate a potential source for power has started. In consultation with
the SMC Office, scouting teams were deployed from Auki to
make contacts with
land owning groups and to identify potential sites for this project. So far
land owning groups in Zone 10 – the Highlands – have been contacted. In the
coming weeks and months more visits will be arranged hopefully to ascertain
sites with strong potentials for a hydro scheme. This project will need a lot
of public education and awareness. In
the meantime, the advice is that this will be a long term project which could
take a number of years to materialize. However, Hon R N Hou is urging his
people, and especially landowning groups, to open their land and allow their
resources for development purposes.
