AN Energy official wants a provision allowing the government to take over a private firm’s place if it withdraws from building a planned integrated natural gas (LNG) facility included in a bill aimed at developing the country’s natural gas industry.

In a briefing on the 6th E-Power Mo Conference at the Department of Energy’s (DoE) head quarters in Taguig City on Tuesday, Energy Assistant Secretary Leonido Pulido 3rd said the measure that Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian was planning to craft “should include a provision [that says if no third-party private investor comes in,] the government should be ready to step in and invest in” the LNG plant’s construction.