Mar 28, 2023
chlumberger Guyana Inc’s application for the operation of a source storage and calibration building, which includes radio-active source storage, at Houston, East Bank Deme-rara, is still being reviewed by the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA). Schlumberger Guyana Inc told Stabroek News last week that there was no update on the application process. EPA Head Kemraj...
Mar 20, 2023
Kaieteur News – With only one day left before the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) hosts a special hearing into the appeals made by citizens, regarding a decision made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to exempt a 300 megawatt gas-fired power plant from a detailed impact assessment, Environment and Democracy advocate, Simone Mangal-Joly has appealed...
Feb 06, 2023
– to engage public on restarting operations at Houston Kaieteur News – The High Court in December last year ruled that Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) breached the law to issue a permit to Schlumberger Guyana Inc. to construct a radioactive storage facility at Lot 1 Area ‘X’ Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD), without conducting...
Feb 06, 2023
By Stabroek News February 6, 2023 By way of letter, attorneys for the applicants in the Judicial Review case filed against the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Assessment Board and Schlumberger Guyana Inc (SGI) have written to IMEX Inc requesting an explanation for its recently announced public engagement. In the letter sent to IMEX Inc,...
Feb 05, 2023
Kaieteur News – With plans already in place to welcome ‘Prosperity’—Guyana’s third floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel—ExxonMobil Corporation’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has indicated that it will need its own dumpsite to ensure proper waste management. Just last week, the Exxon affiliate issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking...
Feb 05, 2023
Last Updated on Sunday, 5 February 2023, 21:41 by Denis Chabrol Three persons- who won a High Court case that blocks Slumberger Guyana Inc (SGI) from carrying on radioactive work at its Houston, East Bank Demerara location-have reminded an environmental consultancy that the company could not restart operations unless it is legally permitted to do...
Jan 25, 2023
SCHLUMBERGER EITHER GOES OR BE JAILED, SAYS HOUSTON RESIDENTS FOLLOWING HIGH COURT RULING
Jan 04, 2023
(This week’s column is dedicated to the memory of Elaine Therese Radzik Sochacki (nee Vieira), April 1st 1930 – January 4 2011.) On December 16, 2022, Justice Nareshwar Harnanan pronounced his ruling on the Judicial Review case filed in the High Court by Vanda Radzik, Danuta Radzik and Raphael Singh vs the Environmental Protection Agency...
Jan 03, 2023
The Vreed-en-Hoop Shore Base Inc (VESHI) has started the new year with the emergence of the first part of its artificial island in the Demerara River. The consortium managing the project hailed this as a momentous achievement and a first for Guyana. This new island is part of the reclaimed land that will be transformed...