Wednesday, May 23, 2007



This is the way electricity is being brought to Madagaskar. 6 flights of the second largest Antanov airplane in the world are bringing currently the power engines from La Reunion to Ivato airport near Antananarivo. After that, the maybe even riskier business of transporting them through downtown Tana will start. As there is not a single street flat here, and the roads are never wider than just 2 taxi-be’s, that is going to be a huge challenge. We'll see how this story ends

Well for the rest of it, I am back in Tana doing my work as a civil supervisor on the construction of this controversial power plant. It will bring electricity to many people, but it comes with a cost that not everyone here seems to know. The costs are not that obvious and direct maybe, but the situation is clear. The plant is being built in the middle of a neighbourhood because the client wanted it to have next to their drinking water plant. It runs on heavy fuel and this needs to be transported from the port at 500km from here. Up to you to fill in what are the dangers and difficulties of all this.

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