Sep 28, 2024
By Stabroek News September 28, 2024 Dear Editor, We shall be soon piping into October 2024, where we are told by high government authorities that the Gas to Energy (GtE) loan application in at the US Exim Bank will land on the Board of Director’s (BoD) agenda, allegedly based on environmental and technical studies’ rectitude....
Sep 27, 2024
Kaieteur News – The highly touted US$2B Gas-to-Energy (GTE) project is intended to reduce monthly electricity bills by 50% but Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is unable to say how soon consumers can expect this reduction. In the absence of a feasibility study for the project, stakeholders have been constantly questioning the project’s capacity to deliver...
Sep 23, 2024
Former finance minister Winston Jordan has said that with no agreement between the government and ExxonMobil made public or shared with the Parliament on how the pipeline for the more than US$2 billion gas-to-energy (GtE) project is being funded, it seems like the government has taken an illegal loan. “We have no agreement in public...
Sep 20, 2024
Even as construction continues on its model Gas-to-Energy (GtE) project, the Guyana Government is already forging ahead with Phase Two of that initiative which could see a second power plant and Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) facility at Wales, West Bank Demerara (WBD). Under Phase One of the Gas-to-Energy project, an Integrated Natural Gas Liquids facility...
Sep 18, 2024
Former Finance Minister questions final cost of pipeline; -repayment terms -cost to maintain pipeline -source of funds to repay debt -who owns pipeline -whether repayments have commenced Kaieteur News – Former Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan is of the firm view that a fiasco, 10 times grander than the US$200M Skeldon project, is playing out...
Mar 29, 2023
Dear Editor, Further to my letter of February 11, 2023, regarding our country’s lack of an independent Environmental Assessment Board (EAB), it is disappointing that rather than address the issues of conflicts of interest with government duties, you have doubled down and appointed a board with two of three members having direct conflicts of interest...
Mar 29, 2023
By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – As Guyana joined the rest of the World in observing International Women’s Day yesterday, a group of ladies took to the streets with their placards, demanding government secure full liability coverage for ExxonMobil’s oil and gas operations offshore. Scenes from the protest outside the President’s Office yesterday The grassroots...
Mar 29, 2023
Dear Editor, In his speech at the sod turning ceremony for the construction of a new stadium at Palmyra, President Irfaan Ali said that ‘hypocrites’ is the ideal term to define Guyanese who have been critical of his government’s management of the oil and gas sector and its stewardship of the environment. The President spoke...
Mar 29, 2023
…Citizens must demand full disclosure of true interest rate, stop Govt. from approving more projects with same conditions Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil has to date invested close to US$40 billion to develop the resources discovered in the Stabroek Block and because of the lopsided oil contract it inked with the Government of Guyana in 2016,...
Mar 29, 2023
Kaieteur News – Two citizens, Elizabeth Deane-Hughes and Vanda Radzik on Monday moved to the High Court challenging a permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) for the pipeline that will transport natural gas to Wales. The pipeline is a component of the Guyana Government’s Gas-to-Energy...