Up to 30 jobs could be added to the Cayman Brac economy if proposals for the offshore transfer of fuel get the go ahead.
Leader of Government Business Kurt Tibbetts told Legislative Assembly on Thursday that an ad-hoc committee had been set up to consider ship-to-ship fuel transfer for the Sister Islands.
Answering a question from Sister Islands MLA Julianna O’Connor-Connolly, Mr. Tibbetts said the committee was scheduled to meet at the end of this month to consider a specific proposal for such transfers and to recommend whether such proposals should be supported by the government.
‘If the lightering operations are supported by government then royalties must be determined by investigating similar lightering activities in other regions such as the Gulf of Mexico or Aruba,’ said Mr. Tibbetts.
‘Based on historical file notes on Cayman Brac ship to ship transfers, such an operation might add as many as 30 jobs to the Cayman Brac economy,’ he said.
‘Lightering can potentially be a considerable revenue earner of sufficient negotiations and contractual arrangements are set in place to preserve and protect our natural marine and land-based environment,’ he added.
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