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…
The government is promising to audit the US$9.5 billion in capital costs outside the audit window that is now closed. It hasn’t explained how it will enforce any discrepancies found given that the time frame to audit Liza 1 and Liza 2, the first 2 projects in the Stabroek block, have expired. But let’s not…
Interview aired on June 4th, 2019
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…
Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh writes: I spoke about the flaws in the PSA at length at my Moray House talk three years ago. In fact, I tried to console the audience with a riff based on that old primary school poem, “If”. (SN July 5th). I don’t know what Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh said about…
https://www.change.org/urgent-enforce-guyana-laws-oil-contracts
– Resolve discrepancies in pre-contract costs– Probe cost anomalies between Liza 1 & 2– Review taxes paid by Guyana for oil companies– Review unspecified interest rates on oil companies’ loans– Improve weak environmental standards– Regulate amount of oil being produced A group of 17 civil society professionals in the diaspora are calling on President Irfaan…
Reference is made to a press release dated March 17, 2025, issued by the Department of Information, titled “Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Responds to OGGN.” Minister Gail Teixeira was responding to a letter from the Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) Guyana, titled “Minister Teixeira Must Address UN Concerns on Access to Information…
What do we value as the oil and gas juggernaut rolls on? On your way to or from Guyana’s international airport at Timehri you travel on the East Bank Demerara road. Every mile or so, a small billboard displaying the village name will flash past your eyes. 29 kms from Georgetown and 10.5 km from…
