Nandlall, on March 9, filed a counterclaim against Synergy Holdings Inc, which moved to the court in January seeking a declaration that the government was not entitled to terminate their agreement, in addition to $100M in damages for breach of contract or alternatively for work done under the terms of the contract, plus interest. Synergy, in a statement of claim filed by Miles Fitzpatrick, S.C, and attorney Timothy Jonas, said that the company on March 18, 2010 entered into an agreement with the government for the clearing of forest and the construction of the Amaila Falls Access Road. The agreed value of the project payable to Synergy Inc. was US$15.4M in instalments during the course of the works.