FORMER prime minister and energy minister Stuart Young was not surprised by announcements by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and the US State Department on September 30 that the Dragon gas project has been resurrected.

These announcement were made after a meeting in Washington, DC, between Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier in the day.

The OPM statement said after the meeting, government was informed that Rubio "supports the approval of the relevant Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) licences to begin discussions toward developing its cross-border hydrocarbons." OFAC falls under the US Treasury Department.