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FORMER prime minister and former energy minister Stuart Young sounded an alert over Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar's plans to seek new gas-supply sources from neighbouring Grenada plus Guyana and Suriname, as he addressed a briefing at Balisier House, Port of Spain, on May 5.

At the swearing-in of the new government on May 3 at President's House, Persad-Bissessar had proposed Grenada plus the booming provinces of Guyana and Suriname as alternatives to the Dragon gas field for which the US Government recently withdrew its OFAC licence to TT to exploit as part of a wider US embargo against the Venezuelan government over human rights concerns.

However Young told reporters any gas supply from Grenada to TT, if feasible, could take ten-15 years.