Vanda Radzik News Today

The Court of Appeal is yet to set a date for the hearing of an appeal filed by Elizabeth Hughes and Vanda Radzik on the High Court decision not to quash the Environmental Permit granted to ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) for the 12- inch pipeline that will be used to transport natural gas for the Gas-to-Energy (GTE) project since November 15, 2023.

The recently concluded PPP 35th annual congress will go down in history for the election of Nigel Dharamlall to the 35-member, central committee of the PPP party, and to its executive council. The election of Nigel Dharamlall is glaring in its insensitivity and demonstrates a contemptuous disregard for the trauma of sexual violence and the physical and deeply psychological scars and suffering of victims/survivors.We remind Guyanese women, citizens, the PPP central committee and its executive arm...

ExxonMobil's Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and the Guyana government have asked the High Court to be parties to a case brought by two

As American oil major, ExxonMobil races to meet its 2024 deadline for completion of the Gas-to-Energy pipeline- a component of the Government of Guyana’s (GoG’s) Gas-to-Energy (GTE) project- the first shipment of onshore pipes, that will be used to transport the natural gas is expected to arrive in Guyana soon for installation.

The recent ruling by the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB), a body mandated by law to preside over the concerns of the public and act as an independent appeal group into the decisions of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has caused some members of the public to lose confidence in the body.

Former Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, has condemned the move by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to appeal the recent ruling by High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon regarding oil spill insurance and the parent company guarantee by ExxonMobil, calling it a “shameful” and “anti-national” appeal of the “powerful” ruling.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) on Wednesday issued its decision to uphold the waiver of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a 300 megawatt gas-fired power plant to be constructed at Wales, West Bank Demerara.

The first hearing of a legal proceeding levelled against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), challenging a Permit granted to ExxonMobil Guyana (Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited- EEPGL) for the construction and operation a 12-inch natural gas pipeline, will take place on Thursday in the High Court.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) is yet to hand down its decision on the appeals made by citizens, regarding the waiver of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a 300-megawatt gas fired power plant to be constructed at Wales, West Bank Demerara.

“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has relegated itself to a state of laxity of enforcement and condonation compounded by a lack of vigilance thereby putting this nation and its people in grave potential danger of calamitous disaster,” those were the words of High Court Judge, Justice Sandil Kissoon, when he handed down his ruling in a monumental case against Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ‘ExxonMobil Guyana,’ Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (...