Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 127 Introduction Yesterday’s column addressed three Guarantee and Indemnity Agreements (GIA) granted by the oil companies to the Environmental Protection Agency. These we are told are to provide some assurance to Guyana that there is money available to deal with any environmental events…
It may seem to Guyanese that oil issues are coming to a head, that is, to some conclusion. They are not. We have to be prepared for a long and tough slog on our journey to get a fair deal for the working people of Guyana, and to finally start transforming the governance apparatus of…
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…
The recent dismissals of Professor David Hinds and Mr Lincoln Lewis have not displaced the foremost news event in Guyana, this being the giveaway of Guyana’s oil patrimony. What the terminations have highlighted is how politicians attempt to justify indefensible acts, by using dishonourable, mendacious or facetious statements. The utterings by politicians to logically define…
Ravi Dev’s caution about Girmitiyas, former labourers or People of Indian Origin, PIO, does not have to begin or end in disappointment. (SN – 2024-12-08). He cites an example that is already appealing to politicians. ‘They hope Bharat would follow the African Union, which declared its diaspora as “Africa’s 6th Region”. This is an opening…
Recently, the number and prominence of foreign analysts who have corroborated the early view expressed by local analysts have increased. This is the view that the contract is heavily weighted against Guyana. Two of these foreign analysts have been OpenOil and the IMF. Yet, there is one aspect of the consideration of how bad a…
I write to comment on one issue in your well-argued Editorial titled ‘Hess’ carbon offset deal’ which begins: ‘You have to give it to Bharrat Jagdeo. He has been trying to “sell” Guyana’s rainforest since the early 2000s going around the world saying if you don’t buy our trees they may have to be chopped…
As ExxonMobil holds its 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders today, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) calls on the company to stop flaring gas offshore in Guyana, the site of its biggest oil development outside the U.S. Permian Basin. The flaring, which far exceeds levels authorized by the Guyanese government, releases greenhouse gases and…
