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Leader of the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union Ancel Roget issues a challenge to Energy Minister Stuart Young.


He wants the Minister to make the claims he made under Parliamentary privilege, publicly, and says, there are questions to be answered.


Alicia Boucher has the details.
Transcript
00:00Leader of the Oilfields Workers Trade Union, Ansel Roger, is responding to claims made
00:05by Energy Minister Stuart Young that Patriotic Energies used a fraudulent document in its
00:10attempt to acquire the Pointer Pear refinery.
00:13I want to say, particularly before I go forward, if I say any other word this morning, is that
00:20we deny vehemently, that we say categorically, that the company Patriotic Energies Services
00:31Limited did not put before the cabinet-appointed evaluation committee any document that the
00:40minister is referring to.
00:42We say that categorically.
00:44The OWT issues a challenge to the minister, calling on him to step out from under the
00:50cover of parliament.
00:51Come outside and tell the public that we put before, we put before the cabinet evaluation
00:58committee fraudulent documents also.
01:01Come out and say that outside.
01:02He says the process by which Patriotic Energies removed three financers and submitted a new
01:08financer is normal under the non-binding bidding procedure.
01:13According to Roger, the initial three were lacking in several areas.
01:18Not being able to finance, not being able to support the documents that they would have
01:22given us and so on.
01:24Totally unsuitable and therefore not worthy of going further with.
01:29And all of that is consistent with what is a non-binding bid process.
01:36So anything that the minister referred to that has to do with prior to the elimination
01:42of those three, it is totally irrelevant.
01:47The OWTU calls the statements by Young dishonest, but it maintains that if that is the reason
01:53Patriotic was rejected, the process should be scrapped and restarted.
01:58But Roger states that what has transpired leaves more questions to be answered.
02:03How did Styrtia got hold of a document that Scotiabank International, Scotiabank International
02:12had the responsibility to ensure that it is insulated from any external interference?
02:20Because Patriotic, like all of the other contenders, would have signed a non-disclosure agreement.
02:27However, the OWTU claims that at this time it remains unaware of what document Young
02:33was referring to during his contribution to the 2025 budget debate in the House of Representatives.
02:40But we are sure that whatever he's talking about is not what we submitted to the cabinet
02:46appointed to violation committee.
02:49Furthermore, Roger expresses a belief that Young, given his portfolio of energy, did
02:54the wrong thing.
02:56Any document coming in the minister's mailbox, the minister has a responsibility to not to
03:03not do what he did for political purposes and so on.
03:08But that is how they govern.
03:10The OWTU refers to it as a smokescreen to distract the population from what it says
03:15are pertinent issues like crime and economic hardship facing the nation.
03:20Roger also notes that it came following the opposition leader's budget contribution, where
03:24she addressed the issue of the Mothballed refinery.
03:28Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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