Jun 20, 2022
By Melinda Janki Melinda Janki is an attorney-at-law practising in Guyana and an international lawyer who has worked in over 20 countries. The Renewable Energy Institute in England recently came up with the marvellous idea of a “solar-mechanical energy-generating wheelbarrow system” by which a wheelbarrow would generate electricity as it was rolled along. The rationale...
Jun 17, 2022
Kaieteur News – By Davina Bagot Every Man, Woman and Child Must Become Oil-Minded (By Christopher Ram) (Part 97) It is more than five months since the 96th column was published in the Stabroek News on January 22nd of this year. That column summarised the court action brought by citizen Glenn Lall seeking declarations against...
Jun 12, 2022
Kaieteur News – – Meanwhile Guyana Govt. goes to court to ensure oil company gets tax free ride Kaieteur News – US President, Joe Biden on Friday last, lambasted ExxonMobil Corporation, his country’s largest oil and gas producer, for not assisting with easing supply shortages which have unleashed economic pains on the pockets of American...
May 24, 2022
By Stabroek News Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly has written to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) calling on it to release a study which purports to say that Guyana’s oil and gas industry is not causing the low fish catch being experienced by fishermen here. In a letter yesterday to Julio Berdeague, Assistant Director General of...
Feb 07, 2022
By Mike McCormack Mike McCormack is currently a Co-President of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and Convenor of the Policy Forum Guyana (PFG), a broad coalition of civic organizations with a common concern for the environment. He functioned as the Oxfam Director for the Andean Region based in Lima in the 1970s and taught...
Dec 13, 2021
By Stabroek News December 13, 2021 This week we carry the full text of a letter that was submitted on Friday December 10 to Mr. Lochan, Chair of the Environmental Assessment Board and Mr. Kemraj Parsram, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The letter was signed by the following concerned citizens and participants at...
Nov 01, 2021
By Alfred Bhulai Energy Technologist. Retired former head of physical sciences at the University of Guyana. Principal of Think Engine Institute and Energy Services. Concerned about the good education of the next generations. Currently teaching physics for Texila American University at the Saraswati Vidya Niketan. Of all the energy possibilities, solar power is now the...
Sep 20, 2021
By Melinda Janki Melinda Janki is a Guyanese attorney-at-law and an international environmental lawyer. She drafted much of the Environmental Protection Act 1996. She has worked in more than 20 countries. She was an in-house counsel at oil company BP., Guyana’s Environmental Protection Act is a powerful tool that citizens can use to protect themselves...
Apr 16, 2021
Global Oil Environmental Services (GOES) Guyana, a joint venture partnership between JaParts Guyana and Global Oil Management Group, is forging ahead with the development of a Waste Treatment facility that will focus on the recycling and reuse of oil and gas waste. The facility will be situated at Coverden, East Bank Demerara, and is expected...