Gas outages: CNG industry threatens to close outlets

LAHORE: All Pakistan CNG Association Central Chairman Ghayas Abdullah Paracha has said that if gas outages are not reduced for compressed natural gas (CNG) stations, they would be compelled to close the outlets. “Gas load-shedding has ruined our business, people cannot bear more gas closures,” he said in a statement. Paracha pointed out that CNG outlet owners, who did not have any alternative option to continue their business, had signed an agreement for uninterrupted gas supply for 12 months and agreed to pay the highest tariff. “We demand that the government supply gas on priority basis during three months of the winter season to those sectors which have no alternative business options,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 13^th, 2011.