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 as cited below.
I hereby submit
A
that the associated gas from the oil wells is best reinjected and the money earned from Guyana’s oil be used to install the equivalent in solar power as recommended in https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/11/01/features/in-the-diaspora/the-solar-alternative-for-guyana/
1. The recommended version of solar power will completely eliminate the need for any environmental impact whatsoever.
2. It can be implemented gradually, beginning in areas unserved by electricity.
3. People will be empowered with reliable power and not be subject to large-scale blackouts.
4. It is at least 5 times cheaper than the Gas to Energy scheme, not dependent on unrevealed source gas prices.
B
that Floating Liquid Petroleum and Natural Gas plants
(as recommended in the attached presentation of a February 2021 update of an Oil & Gas Master Plan for the Republic of Guyana by the Japan Cooperation Center for Petroleum, Chiyoda Corporation)
1. have no significant difference in economics between onshore and floating gas to power plants;
2. are more flexible and longer lasting, by being able to move to many more wells than Liza;
3. are more suitable for selling gas on the world market, if the power plant is not realized in time, and after we use what we need; and
4. will eliminate the onshore pipeline environmental impact.
Alternative A is far better than B.
S4.1 of the Environmental Protection Act says, inter alia, the functions of the EPA are
(a) to take such steps for the effective management of the natural environment so as to ensure conservation, protection, and sustainable use of its natural resources; and
(b) to promote the participation of members of the public in the process of integrating environmental concerns in planning for development on a sustainable basis.
So I, as a member of the said public, expect the EPA to promote participation of the public via non-governmental media in the process of integrating environmental concerns in planning for development of Guyana’s energy on a sustainable basis, and therefore urge the EPA to take alternative A above for the effective management of the natural environment so as to ensure conservation, protection, and sustainable use of Guyana’s solar and gas resources.
Alfred Bhulai Exaudi Domine justitiam
