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NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The push to use cleaner, greener fuel and the pledge to limit greenhouse emissions is leading the government to make more eco-friendly ...

“By doing that, you now provide emergency power that doesn’t require fuel to be brought in to the island […] and so what that essentially does is allows those centers to have backup power that could run them for days if we were to lose the major grid,” Cambridge said. “There are a number of different fuels out there, but to switch fuel requires, some capital injection because you have to buy new parts so the fuel that we are currently able to burn, heavy fuel oil and automotive diesel oil.” “[…] We are victims of our own progress so to speak, so we now have to manage that balancing act between luxury and convenience, and what is good for the earth and for sustainability,” Cambridge said.