Oct 26, 2022
UN Climate Change News, 26 October 2022 – A new report from UN Climate Change shows countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. —by United Nations Climate Change Read...
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’...
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...
Sep 22, 2022
Kaieteur News – Almost two weeks after American oil major, ExxonMobil reported a ‘one barrel’ spill at the Liza Two operation in the Stabroek Block, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not come out to tell the nation whether its investigation has confirmed the minor spillage as reported by the company. To this end, the...
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...
Jul 11, 2022
By Penelope Howell Penelope (Penny) Howell is a trained teacher, and a community activist, and hails from Coverden. Her husband Timothy is from Barbados. They are the proud parents of one son – Matthew Howell. Editor’s Note: Last week residents of Coverden appeared before the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB). This is the fourth time they...
Jun 23, 2022
For many Global South activists and communities, whose realities are already plagued by climate variability and change, the pledges and actions agreed upon at COP26 were too late, inadequate, and exclusive. Depending on who you ask, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP26 climate conference which took place in Glasgow, Scotland in...
May 24, 2022
By Stabroek News Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly has written to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) calling on it to release a study which purports to say that Guyana’s oil and gas industry is not causing the low fish catch being experienced by fishermen here. In a letter yesterday to Julio Berdeague, Assistant Director General of...
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 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...
