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Gov’t should use authority of mining law and Article 36 of Constitution to immediately remove the illegal Chinese Landing miners

News EditorAugust 1, 2023August 2, 202304 mins

Your editorial ‘IACHR resolution’ on 30 July 2023 summarises the resolution about the dreadful long-running case of illegal mining at Chinese Landing. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights had previously addressed the complaint about similar problems at Isseneru. The two documents are well worth reading for the careful histories of events, and summaries of the very dubious…

Expired, unsigned insurance document submitted by EPA refers to Egypt and not Guyana

News EditorMay 23, 2023May 28, 202362 mins

By Alissa Trotz, (Referenced Insurance Doc inside here: https://www.oggn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/EPA-Supplemental-Affidavit-23-Jan-2023.pdf) On Monday May 29th, Esso and the EPA get another chance to argue for a stay of Justice Kissoon’s ruling that Esso was in breach of the permit requirements for insurance. Exxon’s own modelling shows that an oil spill will not be confined to Guyana, but…

Clive Thomas

Drivers of governmental institutions and functions for the coming oil & gas industry

News EditorMarch 12, 2017December 26, 201801 mins

At the conclusion of last week’s column, I had indicated the intention to wrap up in today’s column my discussion concerning the institutional architecture and governance in preparation for Guyana’s coming gas and oil industry. However, the feedback readers have offered since, suggests they are not altogether clear as to why there is a special…

Gary Girdhari

Oil: We Still Speak Negotiation!

News EditorFebruary 4, 2020February 5, 202001 mins

One of the most pressing concerns in our modern time is climate change. This past year has shown the disastrous and potentially catastrophic effects of global warming throughout our planet, including polar icecap melting and coastal flooding. Carbon sink also known as carbon sequestration is in jeopardy because of non-sustainable deforestation. More important is the…

Bridging Deed sells both patrimony and soul (2nd. Instalment)

News EditorFebruary 4, 2020February 5, 2024010 mins

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Part 84 – February 4, 2020 This Column regards the Bridging Deed conceived by some artful legal mind as going to the heart of the 2016 Petroleum Agreement – one of the first major economic acts of the Granger Administration. The handmaiden for the…

Opinion

The ball is now in ExxonMobil’s court

News EditorAugust 16, 2022August 16, 202204 mins

Dear Editor, In a letter to Stabroek News published on August 6, 2022, Ms. Janelle Persaud, writing in her capacity as Media and Communications Manager for ExxonMobil Guyana, insisted that “Rod Henson, as the former President of ExxonMobil Guyana, never signed any document with Dr. Adams, in his capacity as a prior Executive Director of…

Sanctity of Contract vs Sovereignty over Natural Resources

News EditorAugust 16, 2024August 16, 2024011 mins

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 133 Introduction This column is an adaptation of a presentation I made at an OGGN sponsored activity in New York last July 27. OGGN is a US registered NGO with its membership drawn from the Guyanese Diaspora in North America, Europe and the…

Ganga Ramdas

The stability of Guyana’s Wealth Fund is predicated on slippery unknowns

News EditorJuly 10, 2021July 25, 202101 mins

Guyana’s Assessed Tax Liability, GY$5.391 billion for the Petroleum Contractors is an outrage. Instead of securing funds for floods, sea defenses, and compensation to farmers for crop losses, the money deposited at the Federal Reserve of New York must now be used to pay Guyana’s tax bill, a situation that will reduce Guyana’s Petroleum share…

Jan Mangal

Oil above politics

News EditorNovember 9, 2017December 19, 201802 mins

…Petroleum adviser says oil-and-gas policies must transcend election cycles THERE is need for Guyana to enforce legislation, policies and regulations in the emerging oil-and-gas sector that cannot be easily influenced by politicians, presidential adviser on Petroleum Dr Jan Mangal told reporters on Wednesday. Dr Mangal, who has a Doctorate in Offshore Geotechnical Engineering from the…

Nigel Hinds

We should be renegotiating royalties to some normalcy for the ever-increasing amount of oil being discovered

News EditorSeptember 5, 2018December 19, 201802 mins

If our division was not race it would probably be religion or class or the hue of skin within a race or some other quotient. We humans have a propensity to create/embrace unnecessary barriers that hinder our progress. Money is such an attraction to our senses; we tend to see it as a cure-all, thus…

The world energy market outlook: Further lessons for Guyana

Local Content – Embracing our national interest

Govt. more concerned about making money than safeguarding environment – former EPA boss

Moray House Trust – Oil, Gas and the Environment: a review

Oil Talk with OGGN Guyana Episode #24: GY$362 billion a month in oil is extracted but Guyana cannot pay its teachers a living wage.

IS THE INCOMING OIL INDUSTRY ONE THAT EXCLUDES OR INCLUDES?

Gov’t should use authority of mining law and Article 36 of Constitution to immediately remove the illegal Chinese Landing miners

Expired, unsigned insurance document submitted by EPA refers to Egypt and not Guyana

Drivers of governmental institutions and functions for the coming oil & gas industry

Oil: We Still Speak Negotiation!

Bridging Deed sells both patrimony and soul (2nd. Instalment)

The ball is now in ExxonMobil’s court

Sanctity of Contract vs Sovereignty over Natural Resources

The stability of Guyana’s Wealth Fund is predicated on slippery unknowns

Oil above politics

We should be renegotiating royalties to some normalcy for the ever-increasing amount of oil being discovered