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Young touts green, hydrocarbon energies

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young - File photo by Ayanna Kinsale ENERGY Minister Stuart Young on Wednesday urged the National Gas Company (NGC) to seek new opportunities in renewable energy projects. But Young also said TT will continue to rely on hydrocarbons for the foreseeable future and will not be dictated to by countries re-opening their own pollution-causing coal mines. He spoke at the launch of NGC […]

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