Dec 23, 2022
Kaieteur News – Social Activist, Ramon Gaskin has signalled his intention to appeal Wednesday’s Court of Appeal (CoA) ruling that Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd (Hess) and China National Offshore Oil Cooperation Guyana (CNOOC) do not need separate licences to engage in oil development and production given the licence obtained by their partner, Esso Exploration and...
Dec 19, 2022
Kaieteur News – On Friday, High Court Judge Nareshwar Harnanan ruled that Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) breached the law to issue a permit to Schlumberger Guyana Inc. to construct a radioactive storage facility at Lot 1 Area ‘X’ Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD)., without conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) first. On February 14,...
Dec 17, 2022
-judge quashes permit, rules waiving impact study was illegal By David Papannah December 17, 2022 Court Document: 2022-HC-DEM-CIV-FDA-193 – Click to Download and read – PDF version. Justice Nareshwar Harnanan yesterday ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) breached its statutory duty by issuing environmental permits to Schlumberger-Guyana Inc. and waiving the requirement for an Environmental Impact Assessment...
Oct 21, 2022
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey officials announced a lawsuit on Tuesday against five oil and gas companies and a petroleum trade organization, alleging they had known for decades about the harmful impact of fossil fuels on climate change but instead deceived the public about that link. Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the state’s...
Oct 20, 2022
The High Court has ruled in favor of ExxonMobil, through subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), being granted leave to join a case brought by two Guyanese citizens against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the oil company’s exploration activities. The two citizens, Danuta Radzik and Sinikka Henry, had moved to the High...
Oct 18, 2022
The Monaco Appeal Court has thrown out the appeal by the Monegasque Public Prosecutor against the Investigating Judge’s decision to end the investigation against SBM whistleblower Jonathan Taylor. As Single Buoy Moorings had dropped its complaint of attempted extortion against Taylor several years ago, Monaco’s determined pursuit of the British lawyer has attracted huge media...
Oct 08, 2022
By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Guyanese citizens, Frederick Collins and Godfrey Whyte, have taken the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court to enforce a critical clause in the Liza Phase One environmental permit, recently issued to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL). That provision says ExxonMobil Corporation, the parent company for EEPGL, must...
Sep 25, 2022
Stabroek News – President of the Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) Fredericks Collins and another Guyanese citizen, Godfrey Whyte, have moved to the High Court to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce the liability clause in the permits issued to ExxonMobil Guyana for its offshore oil operations. The case was filed in...
Jul 19, 2022
By Stabroek News Arguing that their health and community are at significant risk in the event of escaped hazardous radioactive waste, residents of Houston on the East Bank of Demerara are challenging the waiver of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) granted to Schlumberger-Guyana Inc. by the EPA. Schlumberger, one of ExxonMobil’s major subcontractors, has constructed...
Jan 14, 2022
Kaieteur News – By Kiana Wilburg Publisher, Glenn Lall, in an historic move, filed a case in Guyana’s High Court on Thursday, which challenges some of the most repressive tax provisions of the Stabroek Block Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil and its partners, Hess Corporation and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited. The case which was...
