I was able to coordinate to meet with Mr. Leon Copper who is currently the plant manager and has worked at Port of Spain’s PowerGen for 34 years. We donned our red overcoats and yellow hard hats with the Powergen logo and began the tour through the facilities. Mr. Cooper proved to be a reliable source of information in describing the complex inner workings of the plant and I was engrossed in conversation with him while trying not to lose focus on taking pictures.

There was the deafening sound of silence where one could almost hear the thunderous hums of the machinery and people shuffling around doing their duties in years long gone. As we walked throughout the site there were already signs of the dismantling of equipment, their innards stuffed in boxes. Dust from the street settled on every surface inside the plant reinforcing that nothing would ever run again.