(Kaieteur News) – Interim Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) and former Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson has dismissed the government’s celebration of the Gas-to-Energy (GTE) transmission network as a public relations exercise, arguing that the project remains far from delivering electricity because its key generation facilities are still unfinished.

Patterson contended that while the government is boasting that the transmission network is 99% complete, the electricity generation and Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) plants at Wales remain almost two years behind schedule and are unlikely to be fully operational before mid-2027.

Government this week highlighted that the transmission network to distribute electricity from the project is 99% completed.