Roget claims Patriotic will be part of refinery reopening

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Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get says Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Com­pa­ny Ltd will be part of what­ev­er arrange­ment emerges for the re­open­ing of the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery, al­though he has not dis­closed who the prospec­tive op­er­a­tor will be.

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Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia on Sat­ur­day at the com­mem­o­ra­tion ser­vice of the off­shore fire which killed 14 work­ers on Oc­to­ber 17, 1985, Ro­get ex­pressed con­fi­dence that an an­nounce­ment on the re­fin­ery’s fu­ture would be made soon, urg­ing the pub­lic to re­main pa­tient as dis­cus­sions con­tin­ue. He said a safe re­fin­ery open­ing would be a top pri­or­i­ty.