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For­mer Prime Min­is­ter and for­mer En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young, has re­spond­ed to com­ments made by his suc­ces­sor, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, re­gard­ing a High Court rul­ing in­volv­ing the Min­istry of En­er­gy.

In a state­ment on his Face­book page, Young crit­i­cised Mooni­lal’s re­ac­tion to the court’s de­ci­sion that the Min­istry must re­lease an in­ves­tiga­tive re­port in­to a fa­tal ac­ci­dent at the Ni­quan gas-to-liq­uids plant.

Young de­scribed Mooni­lal’s com­men­tary as “mis­placed” and iron­ic, sug­gest­ing that the new Min­is­ter had fi­nal­ly found his com­fort zone—re­spond­ing to a mat­ter be­fore the court.