ENERGY MINISTER Conrad Enill has sent several Alutrint reports to environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, but the activist says they are all irrelevant.

His comment came a day after he and three other anti-smelter activists staged a sit-in demonstration at the Ministry of Energy.

A statement from the Ministry of Energy yesterday stated that the minister ’delivered documents providing information on the development of the aluminium industry in Trinidad and Tobago in response to a request for information on the Alutrint aluminium smelting project’ from Kublalsingh.

But in a telephone interview yesterday, Kublalsingh said the Freedom of Information Act statements for the year 2008-2009, a transcript from the proceedings at the South Trinidad Chamber of Industry and Commerce Smelter Symposium of 2006, a copy of former energy minister Lenny Saith’s speech at that event and a copy of the book Aluminum Smelting, Health Environment and Engineering Perspectives edited by Mukesh Khare, were completely useless and far from what they asked for during the silent protest at the International Financial Tower in Port of Spain.

’We asked for the cost benefit analysis of the smelter plant, not that. We have all of that information already and it seems as if the minister is just making a mockery now,’ Kublalsingh insisted.

He said he tried going through all the appropriate legal channels, including the Environmental Management Company, the Freedom of Information Act, the Ministries of Energy and Housing, in order to get ’any accounting information regarding the viability of the Alutrint smelter plant’ being constructed in La Brea.

However, he said everyone has failed to give them any answers pertaining to the matter. Kublalsingh said they will now try to get the information directly from Alutrint.