– while 5th still pending Kaieteur News – US oil major ExxonMobil has commenced the application process seeking environmental permission for its sixth oil project in the offshore Stabroek Block. The company has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Whiptail development which was announced in July of 2021. EPA’s Chief...

Kaieteur News – We thought that the people at Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would have learned a sharp, embarrassing lesson in the matter of Schlumberger and the waiving of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The Court came down hard on the EPA, and the thinking was that amends would be made going forward, that...

Kaieteur News – The decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to exempt government’s 300 megawatt (MW) gas-fired power plant from a detailed Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) shows a pattern of continued negligence by the government, towards the environment and health of its citizens. This is the position of Dr. Vincent Adams, a Petroleum Engineer...

Kaieteur News – Acorn International, ExxonMobil’s new Consultant has completed and submitted an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the fifth offshore oil project, the Uaru development in the Stabroek Block. The 3,178 paged document that contains four volumes of data, points out the dangers associated with the oil project, actions for mitigation and background on...

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’...

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...