At the beginning of the Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) Stakeholder meeting 10 am on Friday Feb 12, 2021, CEO Alistair Routledge said they wanted to be transparent and accountable. And they took the trouble to invite Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI), of which I was an executive member. Later in the meeting…
To: The Guyana Times Dear Editor, Your letter writer Robin Singh either cannot comprehend the language used by concerned members of civil society, or he is pretending to be environmentalist, for he accuses us of the following [in GT 2022-04-04]: “To ask Barbadian PM Mia Mottley to shut down the oil-and-gas sector before it delivers…
Former head of the local Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams, has warned that Guyana must safeguard itself against what he described as “watered down language” that could possibility weaken the country’s abilities to hold oil companies operating in the Stabroek Block, from fully accepting their responsibility in the unfortunate event of an oil…
Today’s front page story in SN showing Minister Bharrat handing over production license for a fourth oil well to Exxon’s Guyana president Alistair Routledge, giving up yet more leverages to demand renegotiation – should give cause for alarm to the Guyanese people. It is simply giving Exxon license to cheat the Guyanese people of Fair…
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We learn from the Department of Public Information that in the 2022 national budget $1.4 billion of public funds were allocated to deal with the stench and other management issues at the Haags Bosch landfill located at Eccles. Further, that more than 450 tonnes of waste per day are dumped in ‘Cell one’ and ‘currently,…
I am compelled to write again, about this most crucial matter of full coverage insurance, so as to keep it fresh in the minds of our people; for the modus operandi of the Government and Exxon is to no doubt, wait it out and it will soon be the news of yesterday. The issue of…
The Report produced for USAID on Democracy, human rights and governance assessment: Guyana (2021) makes the following observation in several places: ‘The constitution mandates a high degree of cabinet involvement in executive decision-making while the National Assembly serves as check on the executive branch. Consequentially, the executive branch of government is both protected and isolated…
Motion – Liability Insurance Coverage for Spills Whereas Oil production offshore Guyana is expected to increase rapidly from its current rate of 120,000 barrels per day (bopd) to close to 1 million bopd, with the number of FPSOs increasing over 10 times by 2026; And Whereas worldwide offshore oil production operations show a high likelihood…
In follow-up to your editorial ‘Critics’ in the Sunday Stabroek for March 06, 2022, I suggest that the leadership of the PPP/C should re-read its 2020 election manifesto, to remind itself that it still has some important promises to act upon. One of these is its commitment to re-negotiate the Production Sharing Agreement with ExxonMobil:…
