April 28, 2024
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Janette Bulkan

Guyana has the legal means to deal with law-breaking ExxonMobil Guyana Limited

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Kaieteur News on 13 April reported, ‘ExxonMobil, EPA a no-show again at Natural Resources Parliamentary meeting’ (https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2024/04/13/exxonmobil-epa-a-no-show-again-at-natural-resources-parliamentary-meeting/).  Through your pages, I call on our elected parliamentarians and staff of the National Assembly to use the legal procedures to require both ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) and the EPA to obey the law of the land. Standing…

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Guyana’s storage and emissions of carbon dioxide greenhouse gas

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I offer the following clarifications to apparent misunderstandings by President Mohamed Irfaan Ali in his encounter with BBC ‘Hard Talk’ journalist Stephen Sackur (KN, ‘Bring it in – President Ali’s seminal defence of Guyana’s road map’, 01 April 2024) and by General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo in his weekly Press encounters (DPI, ‘Guyana will remain a…

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Guyana and Venezuela

Venezuela achieved all that they set out for in their 2021 Acuerdo and the Joint Declaration of Argyle

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In his letter published in Stabroek News on 13 January 2024, Mr. Nascimento re-stated my position. In his words, ‘it is only Venezuela which is the aggressor and, by its Referendum, threatens the use of force’. Why, then, would Guyana have felt pressured ‘with equivalence’ [Nascimento’s words] to let stand Point 1 of the Joint…

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Guyana vs. Venezuela and the Monroe Doctrine

Do US interests still prevail in Essequibo two hundred years after the Monroe Doctrine?

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Janette Bulkan is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia This column reflects on the Joint Declaration of Argyle against the geopolitical backdrop in which Guyana and Venezuela are enmeshed. One can contrast the Guyana government’s declarations of sovereignty against the tangible exercise of power and influence before and after May 2015, when…

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Fish catches decline began around the same time as the beginning of offshore oil production

Fish catches decline began around the same time as the beginning of offshore oil production, at the end of 2019

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These four posters focus on Bangamary (scientific name Macrodon ancylodon, also known as King Weakfish in neighbouring Suriname), the most affordable fish in Guyanese coastal markets and available throughout the year. The posters are part of the public dissemination of research findings supported by a Canadian Government SSHRC Insight grant (2022-2024) awarded to Dr Janette…

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grappling with modernisation

We are grappling with modernisation of legislation by the crudest of processes

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International measures of economic growth – usually expressed as Gross Domestic Product – add the tremendous growth in the enclave economy of ExxonMobil and co-venturers to the small locally-controlled business achievements.  The official GDP figures contrast with the 48 per cent of the population living below the World Bank’s estimate of the poverty line. The…

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