The government does not plan to terminate Aggreko’s contract beyond June. By then, the utilities corporation expects to generate 60 megawatts of electricity within Saipan.
The governor said although CUC desires to comply in advance with environmental and land use regulations, the lack of permits would have interrupted the power service generated from Aggreko’s containerized rented generators.
This would then trigger another round of rolling blackouts on the island.
“Eliminating the declaration would place CUC, Aggreko, and their employees and contractors, in the position of violating CNMI environmental regulations, thereby affecting a shutdown of this required 15 megawatts of capacity. There is no indication that any of the above situation will be resolved in the next month,” Fitial said in his latest executive order.
The state of emergency was first declared in Aug. 2008.
