The Oil­fields Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) has de­liv­ered a let­ter to the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent, out­lin­ing its po­si­tion with re­gard to the de­ci­sion to close the Petrotrin re­fin­ery.

Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes is cur­rent­ly out of the coun­try and Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo is act­ing as Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic.

The OW­TU leader, An­cel Ro­get is call­ing for an in­quiry and pub­lic de­bate in­to the de­ci­sion.

He will al­so de­liv­er let­ters to the Leader of the Op­po­si­tion, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors dur­ing the course of the day, as part of what Ro­get calls their "cam­paign of aware­ness".

He said the con­tents of the let­ter de­liv­ered this morn­ing will be made pub­lic af­ter the pres­i­dent has time to pe­ruse the doc­u­ment.

Ro­get is again deny­ing re­ports that he knew the gov­ern­ment was go­ing to shut down the re­fin­ery.

"In all de­lib­er­a­tions we would have had, there was nev­er any cat­e­gor­i­cal de­ci­sion on shut­ting the re­fin­ery down," he said.

He said what the union in­ter­pret­ed from the meet­ing was that a de­ci­sion was be­ing tak­en to sell the re­fin­ery.

Ro­get said the OW­TU had sev­en mem­bers in the meet­ing and none of them got the in­ter­pre­ta­tion that the re­fin­ery was to be shut down.

He says an in­quiry will de­ter­mine who are ex­perts that helped the gov­ern­ment make the de­ci­sion, and what was the ba­sis of giv­ing this de­ci­sion.