National news outlets, including this distinguished newspaper, have been documenting problems that are emerging as a consequence of the Local Content Act, which was passed by Parliament in late December 2021. Companies, such as Ramps Logistics Guyana, the largest logistics company servicing the oil and gas sector, has apparently been denied access to the local…
Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 98 – June 24, 2022 Introduction Last week’s column began a short series on the 2021 financial performance of the three companies – Esso, Hess and CNOOC – which hold 45%, 30%, and 25% respectively of the highly productive Stabroek Block, a find…
This introduction by Isabelle de Caires to a recent Moray House Trust presentation sheds light on how our history hangs over us. She makes the case that now with oil we are again in a wearing sense of deja-vu. https://www.oggn.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/the-shadow-of-this-history-hangs-over-us.pdf
Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-Minded (Part 97) – June 17, 2022 It is more than five months since the 96th. column was published on January 22nd. of this year. That column summarised the court action brought by citizen Glenn Lall seeking declarations against the tax provisions contained in the 2016 Petroleum Agreement….
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…
