Oct 23, 2022
Kaieteur News – In light of the fact that the oil and gas sector is prone to corruption, Guyana is being urged to increase beneficial ownership screening so as to reduce the sector’s risk to corruption. This was recently noted by the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to improving countries’...
Aug 12, 2022
By Stabroek News August 12, 2022 The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) while upholding the EPA’s decisions not to have impact surveys for ExxonMobil’s planned exploration in the offshore Canje and Kaieteur blocks, has ordered the oil company to conduct an environmental study looking at cumulative impacts of offshore activities. The decision of the EAB was...
Jun 02, 2022
By Stabroek News June 2, 2022 Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put a pause on all future projects with ExxonMobil until the company begins to fully comply with the various environmental laws. The call comes as the 28-day public comments period for ExxonMobil’s Uaru project expired on Monday. Exxon...
Jun 01, 2022
– Environmentalist lists 7 actions that must be taken for EPA to regain citizens trust By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – US oil major, ExxonMobil has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking approval to startup its fifth project in the Stabroek Block Uaru Plus but to date, the oil company is...
Dec 27, 2021
By Stabroek News – Saying that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “systematically and knowingly” violated the law, environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly is contending that the environmental permit issued for ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail Development Project is “illegal and Invalid” as a result. Mangal-Joly addressed some of the breaches in an open letter sent yesterday to the Executive Director...
Dec 13, 2021
By Stabroek News December 13, 2021 This week we carry the full text of a letter that was submitted on Friday December 10 to Mr. Lochan, Chair of the Environmental Assessment Board and Mr. Kemraj Parsram, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The letter was signed by the following concerned citizens and participants at...
Nov 15, 2021
Stabroek YellowTail – Public Meeting Environmental Impact Assessment & Environmental Impact Statement – Audio Recorded on Nov11th, 2021 6pm Guyana Time Last Thursday evening, close to one hundred persons attended, via zoom, a consultation on Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Ltd (EEPGL)/ExxonMobil’s (XOM) Yellowtail Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), which was presented by the consultancy firm...
Nov 01, 2021
By Alfred Bhulai Energy Technologist. Retired former head of physical sciences at the University of Guyana. Principal of Think Engine Institute and Energy Services. Concerned about the good education of the next generations. Currently teaching physics for Texila American University at the Saraswati Vidya Niketan. Of all the energy possibilities, solar power is now the...
Sep 20, 2021
By Melinda Janki Melinda Janki is a Guyanese attorney-at-law and an international environmental lawyer. She drafted much of the Environmental Protection Act 1996. She has worked in more than 20 countries. She was an in-house counsel at oil company BP., Guyana’s Environmental Protection Act is a powerful tool that citizens can use to protect themselves...
Nov 02, 2020
By Troy Thomas Troy Thomas is former president and a current member of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. and he remains active in civil society On October 30, 2020, the local press featured the positive result of a legal action that I had brought to ensure that the environmental permits granted to ExxonMobil conform to the...
