Are we moving in the right direction with our energy planning? If this question was asked five years ago, we would probably say quite easily, 'No.' There was a complete disconnect between Belco's apparent business strategy based on increasing or not increasing consumption of fossil fuels, and any articulated energy strategy or regulation being proposed by Government.

Yet, in that same year, around the time Greenrock was emerging as a formalised group, we learned about the discussions that were occurring between local experts and public officials around the notion of creating a sustainable development strategy for Bermuda's future growth. And within these discussions, there was an overriding agreement that Bermuda's dependency on energy produced from fossil fuels was unsustainable economically, environmentally and socially ... Read the rest of the story at www.royalgazette.com.