AS far back as last January, a senior official of National Gas Company (NGC) wrote to Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley on irregularities with respect to Atlantic LNG.
The whistleblower listed 11 items which, he told Rowley, “you need to know and, hopefully, address.”
The letter-writer said that certain facts were presented to NGC’s Board of Directors, but that the directors “challenged the data presented and were subsequently bullied and threatened by (senior officials identified).”
He claimed that a certain senior official asked to delete aspects of an emailed report.
The whistleblower said Train 1 would cost taxpayers billions of dollars “and not create the value that is presented.”
He wrote that gas to keep Train 1 operational “could get higher prices elsewhere and stimulate more economic activity in other segments of the value chain at this time.”
He claimed that “there is a breakdown and disregard for governance at senior levels of NGC … and has the potential to completely destroy NGC…”
He alleged that there is “a deliberate cover-up” on Train 1 by certain identified top officials “because the decision was made against the facts presented on the matter.”
He asked Rowley to “urgently and independently investigate this matter.”
The Prime Minister was told that “relevant employees of the company could easily verify” the statements “and provide evidence, if given assurances of not being victimised.”
