Hoy reports in today’s edition that President Mejia has said that “no matter whom it hurts” the government would not pay any more money to the Cogentrix generating facility in San Pedro de Macoris until a new contract is negotiated. Mejia said that his government had paid US$42 million dollars to the Cogentrix people and now these want US$18 million dollars more while maintaining their generators turned off. Mejia said that he didn’t know if the British government held shares in the Cogentrix plant but that, to him, this made no difference. “Nobody has the right to do what they have done here,” said the President. He said that they are obliging the government to purchase the most expensive electricity in the world. Mejia said that although their fuel tanks are full of diesel, the facility has been shut down for ten months. The Cogentrix contract was negotiated in the Fernandez government and includes several clauses considered very onerous to Dominican consumers.