Environmental sustainability

One cannot tell where Exxon ends and the gov’t begins

News EditorAugust 21, 2023August 23, 202306 mins

Reference is made to Elder Green’s letter titled, “This mad rush to have foreigners develop all they can find in our waters is senseless” (SN August 16th). Mr. Green is onto something here. “Go easy on exploiting our non-renewable oil resource”, he says. When it’s done, it’s done. Further he cautions, “In other words, don’t…

We urge ExxonMobil shareholders to vote in favour of resolution #14 on environment-related litigation

News EditorMay 28, 202307 mins

Dear Editor, In a shareholder document released on April 13th, 2023 ExxonMobil makes this claim, “ExxonMobil’s affiliate [EEPGL] works cooperatively with the Guyana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure environmental permitting relating to exploration, development, and production activity fully complies with Guyana law.” It states, “…activist litigation to halt oil and gas production has failed…

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No other current issue of greater import I can think of other than Jagdeo’s attack on the country’s judiciary and the troubling silence emanating since

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One cannot tell where Exxon ends and the gov’t begins