Destroying 300 homes, 13 communities, 20 streets, temple, church,

mosque, 13 businesses, 65 oil wells, oil and gas pipelines, the

Oropouche lagoon, fertile agricultural lands, our heritage and

system of tenure...and will cause permanent flooding

WAR ON THE

PEOPLE

Camp Re-Route

destroyed,

27Jun 2012, at

entrance to

Debe-Mon Desir

highway

Destructive Debe to Mon Desir Highway

1. The PP Government was refused a loan for this project by the

Inter American Development Bank (IADB). The Government

was told to repair, widen, and add to the existing roads

2. Key Government Ministers were totally against the Debe to Mon

Desir segment when they were in Opposition

3. The EMA granted a Certificate of Environmental Clearance to

the Government without having seen a hydrological report

4. The people in the communities between Debe and Mon Desir were

NOT consulted before the decision to build this segment

5. The cost of this segment would be over $ 5 billion. This would incur a

debt which our children would have to pay for decades

Highway Re-Route Trinidad Highway Re-Route highwayreroutemovement@gmail.com 461-1822 / 385-1185 / 771-5181

Published by the Highway Re-Route Movement

There are THREE (3) highway

sections in the Government’s

proposal:

(1) San Fernando to Pt Fortin

(2) Golconda to Debe

(3) Debe to Mon Desir

The Highway Re-route Movement

FULLY SUPPORTS:

San Fernando to Pt Fortin

Golconda to Debe

The Movement does NOT

SUPPORT the:

Debe to Mon Desir

section, which crosses the

Oropouche Lagoon

BENEFITS OF THE RE-ROUTE PROPOSAL FOR TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

1. Remove Debe to Mon Desir

2. Add a new highway section

between Debe and Mosquito

Creek, La Romaine end

3. Repair, widen and add to the

numerous existing bypass

and connector roads in the

Debe, Penal, Siparia and

Fyzabad districts

Feed them into the new high-

way sections:

San Fernando to Pt Fortin

Golconda to Debe

Debe to Mosquito Creek

so that Debe, Penal, Siparia and

Fyzabad are within minutes of

the highway system

$ 4 billion will be saved; $ 1.5 billion instead of $ 5.5. billion

Savings could be used, for example, to build Pt Fortin hospital

and develop infrastructure for agricultural development in the

Oropouche lagoon communities

Permanent flooding in the Oropouche lagoon districts will be

prevented

300 homes will be saved

13 communities will be saved

179 agricultural plots of fertile land will be saved

THE GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSAL THE RE-ROUTE PROPOSAL

Road connectivity for South West peninsula will be improved

13 businesses and more than 1500 jobs will be preserved

Places of religious worship (temple, church, mosque) will be

saved

65 oil wells will be preserved

Oil and gas transmission lines will not have to be re-routed

Burden on the taxpayer will be reduced by spreading the costs

for repair, widening and adding of roads over a longer period of

time

Why has no cost-

benefit analysis been

done for this project??

Because hiding costs

hide corruption!!!

Why has NIDCO CEO

Carson Charles

claimed that this

segment is costing $2.1

billion?

The real cost for this

segment is not $2.1

billion.

The real cost is over

$5 billion.

And that is for

Debe to Mon Desir

alone!!!

Source: Government’s Environmental Impact Assessment and statements from Government Ministers

AGGREGATE AND

TRANSPORT ALONE FOR

9.1 MILE EMBANKMENT

IS OVER

$ 1 BILLION

COMPENSATION AND

RELOCATION FOR

HUNDREDS OF HOMES,

FARMS, BUSINESSES IS OVER

$1.5 BILLION

DESIGN AND BUILD

CONTRACT FOR 9 BRIDGES,

FOUR INTERCHANGES, 9.1

MILE EMBANKMENT IS OVER

$2 BILLION

HIDDEN COSTS: COST OF

LOAN, CAPPING OF 65 OIL

WELLS, RE-ROUTING

OIL/GAS LINES, LEGAL, AD-

MINISTRATIVE, SURVEYING

SINCE 2005, LOSS OF FERTILE

SOIL, COST OVERRUNS,

FLOODING IMPACTS, OVER

$1 BILLION