Moonilal: US election gains unlikely

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En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal does not ex­pect re­cent De­mo­c­ra­t­ic gains in the Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions to af­fect Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy arrange­ments with Venezuela, in­clud­ing US li­cences for the de­vel­op­ment of the Drag­on and Lo­ran-Man­a­tee gas fields.

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Speak­ing to re­porters on Fri­day night while dis­trib­ut­ing bags of Di­vali treats to mo­torists, pas­sen­gers and res­i­dents at Debe Junc­tion, Mooni­lal said the li­cences had been grant­ed by the US ad­min­is­tra­tion and there was no in­di­ca­tion that the coun­try’s plans would change.