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nhartnell@tribunemedia.net Oil exploration opponents yesterday sought the Supreme Court's approval to add the Town Planning Committee as a "fourth respondent" in their challenge to Bahamas Petroleum Company's (BPC) drilling. Waterkeepers Bahamas and the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay, in moving to amend their initial Judicial Review action, argued that the planning regulator should be added because it has failed to order BPC to cease it activities in waters 90 miles west of Andros given the seeming absence of site plan approval. Joe Darville, a director of both environmental groups, alleged...
nhartnell@tribunemedia.net Environmental activists yesterday accused the Government of "jumping the gun" after it filed legal papers opposing their bid to halt oil exploration in Bahamian waters. Rashema Ingraham, executive director of Waterkeeper Bahamas, told Tribune Business "it goes against normal legal process for Judicial Reviews" for the Attorney General's Office to file a "notice of objection" prior to Justice Hanna-Weekes determining whether the activists' case should proceed. The Supreme Court is due to make that decision at 11am today, but in its December 22, 2020, "notice", the At...
* BPC confident 'no legal impediment' to plans * Activists confident in 'powerful' legal case By NEIL HARTNELL nhartnell@tribunemedia.net Activists yesterday argued The Bahamas is "paying lip service to the green and blue economy" in response to charges they have exposed their "true agenda" by seeking to block oil exploration. Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC), firing back at the Judicial Review challenge initiated by Waterkeepers Bahamas and the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay, sought to reassure shareholders that its first well will move ahead as planned by asserting "there should be no lega...
Darville: NGOs blindsided by oil drilling approval Joseph Darville. In a lengthy affidavit in support of a bid by environmental interests to stop the Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) exploratory drilling set to take place 90 miles off Andros this month, Executive Chairman of the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay Joseph Darville paints a picture of stakeholders being kept in the dark as the government quietly granted approvals to BPL. A key ground of the legal action filed this week by Waterkeeper Bahamas Ltd. and the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay (Save The Bays) against the governm...