Carolyn
sounds
energy
warning
Port Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com
28 07 07
Congress
of the People Pointe-a-Pierre candidate Carolyn
Seepersad-Bachan has said that if there
is no new oil soon, the country could be left with
a
lot
of scrap iron on its hands.
Addressing
a political meeting at Couva South recently,
Seepersad-Bachan said: "If no discovery
is made in the near future, many of the Pt Lisas
industrial plants would become scrap iron in no
time."
She criticised Prime Minister Patrick Manning
for insinuating that nobody in the COP understood
the energy sector and that a COP government would
put the country at risk and would make a barrage
of mistakes.
Manning,
who has threatened time and time again on the
political platforms to "flog" the
opposition parties in East, West, North and South,
himself received a verbal flogging from Seepersad-Bachan,
a chemical engineer.
She
said: "For three years, myself and Mr
Winston Dookeran have been asking you (Manning)
for the position of the gas reserves in this country
because you were signing contracts for gas-based
projects like if they were going out of style."
But
Manning could never answer the questions on the
reserves or the gas audit, "until the
Ryder Scott Report was released and everything
came into the open," she added.
The
COP, she said, has been calling on the government
to rethink "how we can use a more conservative
approach, instead of just wasting away our gas,
because we must look at how best natural gas could
be used as benefits".
Story
by Danny-Maharaj
from the Trinidad Express
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pdanny@trinidadexpress.com
Trinidad
Express, Wednesday, October 24th 2007
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