Public Services minister Bernard Flouquet during the presentation. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0598070)

A SPAT between Guernsey Gas managing director Paul Garlick and Public Services minister Bernard Flouquet started question time at last night’s public presentation on the proposed energy policy.

Mr Garlick asked the politician, who chaired the Energy Policy Group, which was the lowest carbon-intensity fuel. Deputy Flouquet said arguments between his group and Guernsey Gas had been raging for many weeks and he did not think they should take the evening up too. ‘We have a difference of opinion between what they are suggesting to us and what we believe,’ he said.

About 50 people attended the meeting in the Grammar School lecture theatre. A woman asked, as a customer of Guernsey Gas, what would happen to her appliances if the States approved the policy.

Deputy Flouquet said there would be a transition between now and 2050 and the points that Guernsey Gas was raising would be focused on. There was no truth in the suggestion that the policy was intended to put anyone out of business, he added.