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Intangible assets | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Intangible Assets Disclosure [Text Block] | 10. Intangible assets In 2003, as part of the acquisition of a group of companies, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding voting common shares of DesalCo, which had an agreement to provide management and engineering services to OC-BVI. The Company attributed $856,356 of the purchase price of the acquisition to the value of this management services agreement, which has no expiration term. Initially the Company determined that this intangible asset had an indefinite life and therefore it was not amortized. However in 2010, as a result of the loss by OC-BVI of its Baughers Bay contract (see Note 8), the Company began amortizing this asset over the life of OC-BVI’s remaining water supply contract for its Bar Bay plant. The carrying amount of the Belize Water Production and Supply Agreement is being amortized over the 23-year term of the agreement. In February 2012, the Company paid $300,000 to enter into an agreement (the “Option Agreement”) that provided it with an option, exercisable through February 7, 2014, to purchase the shares of one of the other shareholders of NSC, along with an immediate power of attorney to vote those shares, for $1.0 million. This $300,000 payment was capitalized and is being amortized over the one year option period.
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2013 |  | 2012 |
Cost |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Intangible asset management service agreement |  | $ | 856,356 |  | $ | 856,356 |
Belize water production and supply agreement |  |  | 1,522,419 |  |  | 1,522,419 |
Usufruct option |  |  | 300,000 |  |  | 300,000 |
|  |  | 2,678,775 |  |  | 2,678,775 |
Accumulated amortization |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Intangible asset management service agreement |  |  | (570,904) |  |  | (428,569) |
Belize water production and supply agreement |  |  | (723,883) |  |  | (657,691) |
Usufruct option |  |  | (287,500) |  |  | (137,500) |
|  |  | (1,582,287) |  |  | (1,223,760) |
Intangible assets, net |  | $ | 1,096,488 |  | $ | 1,455,015 |
Amortization for each of the next five years and thereafter is expected to be as follows:
2014 |  |  | 221,418 |
2015 |  |  | 208,918 |
2016 |  |  | 66,192 |
2017 |  |  | 66,192 |
2018 |  |  | 66,192 |
Thereafter |  |  | 467,576 |
|  | $ | 1,096,488 |

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