Moonilal dismisses claim of $450,000 debt to CNG operators

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has dis­missed a claim that NGC Green owes CNG op­er­a­tors more than $450,000 each in elec­tric­i­ty re­im­burse­ments. But Pe­tro­le­um Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Robin Narayns­ingh said elec­tric­i­ty costs have long been a con­tentious is­sue among deal­ers and warned that CNG op­er­a­tions may not be sus­tain­able.

“We have re­ceived the re­lease from the NGC, which is self-ex­plana­to­ry. Some­one is up to mis­chief, it seems,” Mooni­lal said when asked about a no­tice post­ed at the Car­rousel Ser­vice Sta­tion on the Na­pari­ma-Ma­yaro Road in San Fer­nan­do.

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Narayns­ingh said elec­tric­i­ty costs as­so­ci­at­ed with CNG op­er­a­tions had long been a con­cern. He re­called that for­mer En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan had told the as­so­ci­a­tion that Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um (NP) would pay the ex­cess elec­tric­i­ty costs.