Oct 18, 2022
…wants state-of-the-art recreational facilities Kaieteur News – Dutch ship builder, SBM Offshore is making moves to deepen its Guyanese roots as it recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) from qualified companies to develop a gated community and recreational facility for its employees. SBM issued the RFI on behalf of its subsidiary, Guyana Deep Water...
Oct 16, 2022
Just over a dozen citizens on Friday picketed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its non-response to a letter raising several concerns with its handling of the oil and gas sector. The letter, signed by 54 citizens and dispatched to both the EPA and Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) on August 29, called for the bodies...
Oct 15, 2022
By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – A group of public-spirited citizens on Friday joined forces to picket the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA’s), Ganges Street, Georgetown Head Office after the body, which is mandated by law to protect the environment and its inhabitants, failed to respond to a letter which embodied the concerns of over 50...
Oct 15, 2022
OIL SERIES PT 9 By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – According to Guyana’s Local Content Legislation, officials attached to the Local Content Secretariat or a representative of that body can have unrestricted access to a contractor, subcontractor or licensee’s facilities, records, reports, documents, data, and information. Such access is allowed for the purposes of monitoring,...
Oct 09, 2022
By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – Based on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) submitted by ExxonMobil Guyana for the Liza One operations in the Stabroek Block, the developer is allowed to dump as much as 4000 barrels of sewage each day in Guyana’s territorial waters. Environmental Lawyer, Melinda Janki, who has been flagging the dangers...
Oct 09, 2022
…challenges Jagdeo, economists to prove otherwise By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – An engineer with over 50 years of expertise is challenging Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s figures as it relates to the cost to generate electricity via the US$2 billion Wales gas-to-energy (GTE) project. In the absence of any new feasibility studies for the venture...
Oct 09, 2022
– it has the opportunity to be a champion of the people instead of a shield for oil giant – New York-based lawyer By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are well known for using all their legal and technical powers to extract unfair and unconscionable contract terms, especially from developing countries. While...
Oct 08, 2022
Kaieteur News – There should be a meeting of all the groups and individuals opposed to the oil deal. An alliance should be formed with two objectives, one long-term and one short-term. The short-term objective should be to prevent the impending auctions of oil blocks. Legal advice should be sought and legal action taken to...
Oct 03, 2022
By Melinda Janki Melinda Janki is an international lawyer and an attorney-at-law in Guyana In 2016, Raphael Trotman, the Minister responsible for petroleum signed a Petroleum Agreement with three oil companies – Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd.(Esso), Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd. (Hess) and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Ltd CNOOC). These are not the big international...
Oct 02, 2022
– Opposition says it will use all avenues to access new document By Zena Henry Kaieteur News – Given the raging debates regarding the lopsided Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that Guyana currently has with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and partners, it was thought that the Government would have by now...
