Faber also questioned the logic of the terms of the new grant agreement with the Millennium Challenge corporation. As the PM told us last week - in keeping with policy shifts in the US - there will now be an emphasis on use of fossil fuels. Faber lamented that it contradicts Belize's long standing reliance on sources of renewable energy as both policy and practice.
Patrick Faber, UDP Senator
"But in this country, we value energy conservation, and what we have discovered is that in the details of that MCC contract, Belize has agreed now to return, to regress to fossil fuel. They borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars to try to find more alternative energy sources."
"Millions on solar that is supposed to be at the UB campus in Belmopan. Hydroelectricity. We have gone through a whole lot to demonstrate that we are, but because they now offer us back our $250 million, we will behave like we don't know what our agenda is and what is important to the Belizean people."
"So I call on the government this afternoon to make it very clear what the details are in terms of the MCC agreement."
