Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dence

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) Green Lim­it­ed yes­ter­day com­mis­sioned To­ba­go’s first pub­lic CNG sta­tion, a $4 mil­lion cash­less es­tab­lish­ment, which Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Stu­art Young de­scribed as the best of its kind in the coun­try.

“If there is one thing that you take away here to­day, of all the things hap­pen­ing in To­ba­go...is to un­der­stand the im­por­tance of the en­er­gy sec­tor and the NGC group of com­pa­nies and us hav­ing a fu­ture.”

NGC will launch a cam­paign on the is­land to en­cour­age more mo­torists to switch to CNG by of­fer­ing free con­ver­sion.

The com­pa­ny is al­so ex­pect­ed to ac­quire the sta­tion’s li­cense in the com­ing weeks, of­fi­cial­ly be­gin­ning ser­vice to the pub­lic.

Young high­light­ed T&T’s ef­forts to pro­mote gas pro­duc­tion, em­pha­sis­ing the sig­nif­i­cance of NGC in safe­guard­ing fu­ture gen­er­a­tions.

“The im­por­tance of NGC for pro­tect­ing fu­ture gen­er­a­tions and what needs to be done in the im­por­tant gas sec­tor.

“It is crit­i­cal for us in Trinidad and To­ba­go to stand up with the NGC group, stand up with our gas sup­pli­ers and pro­mote gas. That is what me and the prime min­is­ter have been do­ing glob­al­ly and the con­ver­sa­tion has borne fruit.”

He raised con­cerns about a lack of un­der­stand­ing re­gard­ing de­vel­op­ments in the en­er­gy sec­tor since 2015.

“NGC in the gas in­dus­try, which is a glob­al in­dus­try, is go­ing to be de­riv­ing the prof­itabil­i­ty and the rev­enue for us with gas go­ing for­ward.

“It some­times both­ers me when peo­ple don’t see, don’t un­der­stand, don’t care to un­der­stand what has been hap­pen­ing in the en­er­gy sec­tor since 2015, not for the gov­ern­ment, not for the min­is­ter, but for the peo­ple of To­ba­go and Trinidad.”

He fur­ther men­tioned that NGC is work­ing to po­si­tion it­self as a share­hold­er across the en­tire val­ue chain with the sup­port of the Prime Min­is­ter and the cab­i­net.