Sep 18, 2024
Former Finance Minister questions final cost of pipeline; -repayment terms -cost to maintain pipeline -source of funds to repay debt -who owns pipeline -whether repayments have commenced Kaieteur News – Former Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan is of the firm view that a fiasco, 10 times grander than the US$200M Skeldon project, is playing out...
Mar 29, 2023
Dear Editor, Further to my letter of February 11, 2023, regarding our country’s lack of an independent Environmental Assessment Board (EAB), it is disappointing that rather than address the issues of conflicts of interest with government duties, you have doubled down and appointed a board with two of three members having direct conflicts of interest...
Mar 29, 2023
By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – As Guyana joined the rest of the World in observing International Women’s Day yesterday, a group of ladies took to the streets with their placards, demanding government secure full liability coverage for ExxonMobil’s oil and gas operations offshore. Scenes from the protest outside the President’s Office yesterday The grassroots...
Mar 29, 2023
Dear Editor, In his speech at the sod turning ceremony for the construction of a new stadium at Palmyra, President Irfaan Ali said that ‘hypocrites’ is the ideal term to define Guyanese who have been critical of his government’s management of the oil and gas sector and its stewardship of the environment. The President spoke...
Mar 29, 2023
Kaieteur News – Two citizens, Elizabeth Deane-Hughes and Vanda Radzik on Monday moved to the High Court challenging a permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) for the pipeline that will transport natural gas to Wales. The pipeline is a component of the Guyana Government’s Gas-to-Energy...
Mar 28, 2023
chlumberger Guyana Inc’s application for the operation of a source storage and calibration building, which includes radio-active source storage, at Houston, East Bank Deme-rara, is still being reviewed by the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA). Schlumberger Guyana Inc told Stabroek News last week that there was no update on the application process. EPA Head Kemraj...
Mar 20, 2023
Kaieteur News – With only one day left before the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) hosts a special hearing into the appeals made by citizens, regarding a decision made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to exempt a 300 megawatt gas-fired power plant from a detailed impact assessment, Environment and Democracy advocate, Simone Mangal-Joly has appealed...
Feb 06, 2023
– to engage public on restarting operations at Houston Kaieteur News – The High Court in December last year 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...
Feb 06, 2023
By Stabroek News February 6, 2023 By way of letter, attorneys for the applicants in the Judicial Review case filed against the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Assessment Board and Schlumberger Guyana Inc (SGI) have written to IMEX Inc requesting an explanation for its recently announced public engagement. In the letter sent to IMEX Inc,...
Feb 05, 2023
Kaieteur News – With plans already in place to welcome ‘Prosperity’—Guyana’s third floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel—ExxonMobil Corporation’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has indicated that it will need its own dumpsite to ensure proper waste management. Just last week, the Exxon affiliate issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking...
