Caribbean Gas Chem­i­cal Lim­it­ed (CG­CL) has re­spond­ed to com­plaints and con­cerns raised by res­i­dents of the Square Deal, Ves­signy and Sobo Com­mu­ni­ties, (per­sons re­sid­ing out­side the Buffer Zone of the Union In­dus­tri­al Es­tate), in re­spect of ex­ces­sive noise and vi­bra­tions.

The res­i­dents say that the noise and vi­bra­tion plant’s op­er­a­tions is not on­ly caus­ing dam­age to their hous­es, but their phys­i­cal health is at stake, be­cause many are suf­fer­ing headaches and sleep­less nights.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued to­day, CG­CL says it has been “in con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, reg­is­ter­ing their com­plaints, re­spond­ing to queries, and work­ing to­wards de­ter­min­ing how our op­er­a­tion may be con­tribut­ing to these nui­sance com­plaints”.

The com­pa­ny al­so con­firms that it “plans to en­gage with res­i­dents over the next few days to pro­vide fur­ther in­for­ma­tion and up­dates on the project and will con­tin­ue to so do in the com­ing weeks”.

The fol­low­ing is the full text of the CG­CL state­ment…

CARIBBEAN GAS CHEM­I­CAL LIM­IT­ED’S STATE­MENT RE­GARD­ING NUI­SANCE COM­PLAINT BY COM­MU­NI­TY MEM­BERS

Caribbean Gas Chem­i­cal Lim­it­ed (CG­CL) com­menced com­mis­sion­ing of its fa­cil­i­ty lo­cat­ed at Lot2A Union In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, La Brea on Au­gust 17, 2020.  Short­ly there­after CG­CL be­gan re­ceiv­ing com­plaints ad­vanced by res­i­dents of the Square Deal, Ves­signy and Sobo Com­mu­ni­ties, (per­sons re­sid­ing out­side the Buffer Zone of the Union In­dus­tri­al Es­tate), re­gard­ing ex­ces­sive noise and vi­bra­tions. 

CG­CL ac­knowl­edges that the noise lev­els would be above what res­i­dents would have been ac­cus­tomed to, pri­or to this ex­er­cise and is con­cerned about the well­be­ing of our neigh­bours.  

As such, CG­CL has sought to as­cer­tain the va­lid­i­ty of the re­port­ed con­cerns and has com­menced mon­i­tor­ing of noise lev­els through­out the plant and along the perime­ter, road­ways, ac­cess and egress of the In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, at in­ter­mit­tent times dur­ing the day and night.  Ad­di­tion­al test­ing has been con­duct­ed with­in the ar­eas from which the com­plaints have em­anat­ed (Square Deal, Chin Fung Al­ley Sobo) to de­ter­mine source and com­pli­ance.

CG­CL is aware that com­plaints have al­so been lodged by res­i­dents, with the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA), and ex­pect that same will be in­ves­ti­gat­ed.  CG­CL in­tends to ful­ly co­op­er­ate with the Au­thor­i­ty in this re­gard.