President Ali displayed good reasoning in his speech last Sunday on World Environment Day. He correctly makes the point that the developed countries are unfair in using the environment to want us to not exploit our resources, while they renege on what they owe the present population of the Earth for the environment they have…
By Elizabeth Deane-Hughes We were unprepared and undereducated for the Oil Industry in 2016. Fast forward to 2022 and the Gas aspect of the Oil & Gas industry is about to start up on very faulty grounds and yet still we are unprepared and undereducated. The oil and the gas sectors of the one industry…
You are warmly invited to join us for a Moray House Trust panel and discussion: Title: Oil, Gas and the Environment: a reviewSpeakers: Dr Vincent Adams, Frances Carryl (EPA) and Melinda JankiDate: Thursday 9th June 2022Time: 3.00 PM Guyana/ NY/ Toronto …
By Dr Alissa Trotz On May 12th, the UK Guardian ran a story, ‘We can’t eat a new road,’ in which fishermen talked about their livelihoods drying up, and linked it to the oil and gas sector in Guyana that is operating and expanding with official blessing and full immunity and impunity. This connection between…
…Energy Technologist tells EPA solar should be pursued instead of gas-to-shore projectKaieteur News – The associated gas from oil production should be reinjected to save Guyana from further damage to the environment. This is the view of Former University of Guyana (UG) Lecturer and past representative of the Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI), Mr. Alfred…
Dear EPA, My submission on the EIA for the EEPGL Gas to Energy project is prompted by project manager Mr Friedrich Crispin’s justification of it as an alternative source of energy during the presentation of the EIA at the Leonora Technical Institute on Friday May 13, 2022, and on S4(1) of the Environmental Protection Act…
Elizabeth Deane-Hughes 26 May 2022 Mr. Alistair Routledge, President, ExxonMobil Guyana, 99 New Market Street, Georgetown. Dear Mr. Routledge, RE: Governing instruments of Guyana vis a vis EIA/EIS for GTE pipeline project & Uaru Project Happy 56th Independence Day Greetings! Trust this finds you and your circle well. I have been attending some of the complimentary…
The Joshua Luke article in SN 2022-05-19 is a crude attempt to link money supply and the Government spending. There are also Consumer spending and Private Investment spending that together influence the inflation rate. It is a leap to just one of the three types of spending, namely Government to inflation: Quote: ‘The money supply…
In the part 4 we described how even before Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) began to write on the petroleum contract and advocated for insurance to be included in local content (we had not then made representation for oil spill protection as we began to make recently) Berbice fishermen had demanded oil spill insurance. We…
