Bill Clinton says Dominica & the Caribbean can lead in producing clean energy and building resilient homes

​Former US President Bill Clinton says Dominica and the Caribbean can lead the way in producing clean energy, and become prosperous by building homes that are resilient to natural disasters.
 
Clinton was on a one-day visit to Dominica. During a press conference he thanked the Government of Norway for allowing the Clinton Foundation to participate in the effort of green energy.
 
He said, “They believed when we first asked them, that Dominica in particular, and the Caribbean in general, could lead the world to a whole new way of producing clean power, reducing the threat of climate change and improve the economy of developing countries. And they bought the argument I was making that the Caribbean could literally lead the way, that we have the chance to make it the first sustainable region in the world, and now the Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said at the beginning of his great speech at the UN, that he wants Dominica to be the first totally climate resilient country on earth.”
 
He added that Dominica also has the chance to prove that the Caribbean can be more prosperous with plentiful green power at lower costs, which he said will allow the utility company to make more money “because you will have more users.”
 
He stated further, “I have watched country after country in the Caribbean held back with the highest electric rates in the world, because they insisted on continuing years after they should have the old model of importing heavy oil or diesel, when there were ample solar, wind, and in your case geothermal resources, available to deal with it. We have to prove that we can stop rising sea levels, we have to prove that we can fight the most destructive impacts of climate change and we have to prove doing it makes good economics, that the bottom line, that is what this is all about.”