Fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States’ re­vo­ca­tion of li­cences for T&T’s gas projects with Venezuela, David Lee, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) shad­ow en­er­gy min­is­ter, has ac­knowl­edged the need for di­a­logue with US au­thor­i­ties be­fore pur­su­ing cross-bor­der en­er­gy agree­ments.

Dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at UNC’s head­quar­ters in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day, Lee said should the UNC as­sume gov­ern­ment, it would pri­ori­tise con­sul­ta­tions with the US to en­sure the vi­a­bil­i­ty of en­er­gy projects with Venezuela.

“We don’t have any closed doors, I think what we will do is do it the prop­er way and the prop­er way is that we will work with the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion go­ing for­ward and see how that can open back that door with the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment and we will do it the prop­er way we won’t be work­ing with sanc­tioned na­tions to the detri­ment of our cit­i­zens,” he said.