STATE company the National Gas Company (NGC) says Canadian agro-fertiliser producer Nutrien decided to hold this country to ransom by ignoring every opportunity given by government to continue its operations in this country.

The NGC said so in a release on January 2 amid criticisms from former energy minister Stuart Young over the shutdown of Nutrien’s operations in Trinidad and Tobago.

The release said said Nutrien’s decision to shut down its TT operations was based “solely on pursuing its own profit interests and those of its shareholders, without any regard to the interests of this country or its people.”