Brac power company says it won’t run out of fuel
(CNS): With multiple cases of COVID-19 preventing a tanker from unloading its fuel destined for the Sister Islands, the local electricity provider, Cayman Brac Power and Light Company has posted a notice on its social media pages reassuring customers that it has enough diesel to last another eleven days on the Brac and four weeks on Little Cayman.
The Atlantic Muse has been stuck offshore of Cayman Brac for more than a week with some 3,500 barrels of fuel waiting to be offloaded.
But almost all of the crew is infected with the coronavirus but the Port Authority has now confirmed that while its staff are not impacted by the virus on the Sister Islands the tankers own satellite pilot is positive making getting those barrels from ship to shore very difficult.
CBPL said it had plans in place in case the tanker could still not offload later this week
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Just curious – what are all the folks who decry “profits over people” gonna say when the lights go out?
You know …one can’t be too careful with Corona.
When the lights go out, we’ll say, “surely isn’t the first time, and if they never come on again, then we’ll know things have gone as we expected, but hoped would never happen.”
People on the Brac are made of somewhat different stuff than those in the cities, at least us elderly.
A barrel is a unit of measurement (42 gallons) and not a container that needs to be unloaded. All they have to do is connect the transfer pipe…
😮 😲 Thank you.
Actually its only 35 gallons or 159 liters in the real world.
the place is so funny …its CI = clown island =chaos island … whatever you call it it sure is pathetic
Meh, Go home maybe?
How about one of the grown ups in the room recognize we’re dealing with a cold here and unload the damn fuel. Ridiculous.
I guess not unlike politicians in here in GT celebrating another coffee shop opening within 100 feet of 2 others. This place has lost its mind.
This is not a Power Company responsibility, this is a RUBIS issue. CBP&L is just a customer of RUBIS and it’s up to RUBIS to fulfill its responsibility to the government to provide for the Sister Islands. Why isn’t RUBIS requesting that the PACT government support their Port Authority’s need to offload the tanker?
If someone from BP&L could explain the unloading process maybe they would look less like the fools that they look like now. How is an outdoor unloading process impdeded by positive COVID status, unless they are all unvaccinated and therefore experiening seriuos symptoms that would actually prevent them from working.
Your question should be asked of the PACT government and RUBIS, not the power company or any other customer of RUBIS on the Sister Islands.
Okay, noted. Same question to them, then.
Only in the Cayman Islands
Plans? What plans?
Imagine thinking covid (the common cold at this point) is more of an issue to society than having no power/electricity/fuel
Cayman government truly is world class at being low iq morons.
Doesn’t this unloading take place outdoors?
Not understanding the risk. They had infected people working in essential services in U.K., Canada and the U.S. so why not here?
Civil service. #worldclass.
What does this have to do with teh civil service? Goes to prove some of these readers are worse than CMR readers. This is between RUBIS and the tanker.
No it’s not. It’s an issue created by Government overreach, resulting from Civil Service policy. #worldclass
Bluidy right.