Someone in the Bahamas Media should do a 'Follow The Money' investigatory report on this Severely Bandaged utility. Assuming they have any cojones left, must be quick about it, as if the Shell America contract is signed, opening the door to the Business as Usual motif. Shell reneged on their responsibility to provide replacement plants, instead you have used rebuilt units in new buildings to be paid by the customers.
The expensive LNG fuel will require millions of gallons per hour of warm seawater to make the gas usable from its cryogenic state. This cold water runoff will kill any tropical sea life it encounters. Then there is the expensive facility to warm the Trinidad/Venezuela LNG, so who gets what? Inquiring Minds want to Know!
There are alternatives, in proposals on BPL exec's desk.
Natural Compressed Gas from US, Florida or Texas; at 1/3rd the price/cost, is one. Same equipment conversion process as LNG.
Florida Power & Light uses natural gas on 72% of their power plants... must be something right.

If the Delta variant is in Miami, it's in Bimini, that quaint latino-ized extension of Little Havana, which the government has sold out. A recent visit was an eye opener, after 40+ years of visiting Bimini... no more!
The same can be said for Sand Cay, does MSC require vaccines?

Given the choice, I personally I would not want an unvaccinated nurse attending me. If life or death situation? ok. The vaccine does not prevent getting the Corona19 virus, it assist your immune system to lessen the effect of the virus. In other words, you may get a slight cough versus having a 1" diameter tube thrust down your throat, having to be on your stomach, head down to drain your lungs of slime.
Do you not take a flu shot to minimize the yearly flu season?
In the interest of maintaining highly skilled front-line manpower to address a highly contagious disease, the hospitals should mandate vaccines. Pilots are mandated to be experienced in craft & licensed; car drivers mandated to be licensed & have insurance.
You are educated and trained in science, or just a robot who absorbed a routine of procedures for a paycheck?
Think about it.

In Dem Old'en Days, when all relied on one's individual well & catchment water; after the hurricanes passed causing salt intrusion, an Act of God was an acceptable excuse . Everyone pitched in to help those who could not provide for themselves while the wells cleared themselves, particularly as Reverse Osmosis systems were very very expensive. Today that is not the case, at around $3000 per unit, most vessels over 30' have their own.

Many households can not afford such a luxury & maintenance item, thus we are connected to citywide utility water systems at a monthly cost. Paying for service & management.

Hurricanes & other Act of God events, are not new to any tropical island, their severity is something new and we all must make adjustments to our protection procedures accordingly.
Planning, purchasing & installation of a Permanent Utility sized system in 2 years is acceptable, but not as an excuse for inaction post storm. Taking 2 years to replace/install a Temporary Reverse Osmosis System is no excuse, there are many trailer mounted rental units available for interim use from all over the world, many surplus military units.

Poor Planning, like Poor Management is not excusable. Think & Work Together.

A simple question. Cryogenic LNG requires warming before use as a gas/fuel, most often by sea water. Where is the water taken from? And most important where is the chilled water discharged? A pond? The sea? Recirculated in air conditioner/refrigeration systems?

There are serious alternatives to such high interest loans, to be paid by the consumer, Bahamians are hurting. Natural Compressed Gas is considerably cheaper for the consumer & much better for the equipment & environment. No re-inventing the old broken wheel, a good interim technology till solar and battery storage are efficient & economically viable. Florida Power & Light knows.
Follow the $$$, bond brokers commissions & fees... you will pay these.

True there is an abundance of sand in various locations, but was this not a sensitive issue a while back when dredging & exporting volumes of sand to Florida & elsewhere was considered raping the country by a few?
What Mr. Sands is suggesting has its virtues & concerns, to create a product & export it to compete on the world market is a good move, but will the quality justify the cost?
The sand will need washing to minimize salt corrosion of internal steel mesh & supports; who has enough fresh water in their groundwater lens to spare? Reverse osmosis for freshwater is expensive, ask the govt. Possibly why you see large mounds of rock/sand waiting years for rain to fall... that is not eliminating the salt, just superficial rinsing.
Cement is an expensive import, will the govt. be subsidizing? There is a company making construction components in GB, their cost/prices are not low.
Transport cost of a heavy end product is another crippler, may be why Mexico exports cement instead of concrete, they have loads of sand, clay & water.
Considering the basics before a business model is put forth.

Each fuel has a standard/criteria, this is tested before it enters the vessel & before it is discharged into land tanks. Standard procedure worldwide (at a cost). Not certain if is procedure on interisland transfers, should be. Or was wrong fuel placed in wrong tank? Contaminating the service tank & damaging engine fuel system?
Time to honestly consider Compressed Natural Gas (one source - one tank), cheaper & more reliable, less pollution. Not LNG, which requires much warming water & killing fish. If good enough for new Cruise Line ships & many worldwide utilities like FPL, why not Bahamas? I believe there is an offer before govt on same? Including conversions? Si.

Yet once again EMERA execs get a $1mil raise. This while pushing for a rate hike in economically devastated GB. (https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured… )
Corporate greed
How is your day going? Got a million $$ raise?

I do not understand the Co*ones of these corporate entities that feel they are not responsible for hurricane damages repairs of THEIR properties. HWhapoa has taken the insurance funds & refused to repair Twice! (Hotel & airport). Here a power company that owns the distribution network, is passing on the cost of Their Lack of Maintenance & upgrades, there are many poles & cables still down from before Mathews.
Certainly there is no such thing as Easy-Insurance in the Hurricane Belt, but it is available. What about insurance for the Ice-Belt, when every rain drop freezes on the lines, trees, poles etc. multiple times throughout any winter, particularly a Canadian one.
This same corporation is pushing advancing state of the art small-grid battery storage & PV systems in Florida, who is going to pay for the wind blown panels? the retirement community?
Charging your clients for your self-insuring choices, who have no choice of whom to get power from, in the middle of a pandemic/recession is criminal. At least wait till the economy improves sufficiently. Then stick it to 'em, as you will.