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ExxonMobil must be held liable for all oil spill costs – T&T oil expert Sep 17, 2024 News Former Head of Maintenance and Reliability at BP Trinidad and Tobago, Kuarlal Rampersad …urges Guyana to take urgent measures to ensure company does not dodge responsibilities Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil must not be allowed to hand Guyana limited protection to cover costs associated with an oil spill. The multinational corporation, presently earning billions of US-dollars from Guyana’s resources, must instead be held liable for any and all costs related to such a disaster. This was stressed by a Trinidad and Tobago oil expert, Kuarlal Rampersad in a recent interview with this publication. Rampersad who spent over 30 years in a senior management position at British Petroleum (BP) Trinidad and Tobago, pointed to the importance of the company taking full responsibility for an oil spill which can occur, citing Guyana’s massive daily offshore production now nearing one million barrels. Presently, ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL), the operator of the prolific Stabroek Block is producing about 645,000 barrels per day at three projects, the Liza One, Liza Two and Payara. To this end, Rampersad said, “ExxonMobil is supposed to take responsibility for all costs associated with an oil spill…Exxon cannot give a certain amount of money to the Guyanese government and say listen in the case of an oil spill do not hold us liable, you have to indemnify us.” Guyana has accepted a US$2B oil spill guarantee from ExxonMobil and its two Co-Venturers, Hess Guyana Exploration Limited and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited, as the case for full liability protection continues in the Court of Appeal. In addition to the limited guarantee, Exxon has also provided a US$600 million insurance policy per oil spill event. Citizens however argue that it is the state that will be made to cover any destruction above that sum. Notably, Guyana’s Caribbean neighbours are not covered under that oil spill provision. The Trinidadian therefore urged Guyana to ensure it is not left on the hook to clean up after the company. Rampersad said, “It cannot be ExxonMobil saying I gonna give the Guyanese government, let’s say US$20M and put it into an account so just in case of an oil spill, you’re going to indemnify us. They mad or what? You cannot do that! Look at the production rate in Guyana now. Guyana’s production rate is close to one million barrels per day and if that happened to be spill you know what would happen and who is going to be responsible?” Considering the fact that Guyana’s oil operations could potentially impact a dozen Caribbean nations, he urged that a proactive approach to such a situation was not only necessary, but urgently required. “Because if ExxonMobil come and say listen, this thing happened, and we going to sell out the assets, let’s say to Shell, what’s going to happen? They cannot sell that; you have to tie them into this,” Rampersad said. Related Similar Articles

Teens in custody for murder at Kairuni heritage celebrations Sep 17, 2024 News Dead: Harry Browne Kaieteur News – Three teenagers are in custody in relation to the murder of 24-year-old Harry Browne called “Shaggy”, which occurred at an event hosted as part of the month-long Amerindian Heritage Celebrations. In a statement on Monday, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said the fatal incident occurred around 01:30 hours on Sunday, September 15 at Kairuni Village, located on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway. A 23-year-old female of Kairuni village told the police that she and the Browne worked together and stayed in the same residence.  She said that on Saturday night around 19:00 hours, she and Browne left home together and went to the Heritage Month event hosted at the ball field in Kairuni Village.  The woman said they were imbibing alcohol. While at the event, a fight ensued and Browne intervened and attempted to separate the persons fighting. However, a 15-year-old in the company of others attacked Browne with a knife, wounding him to his abdomen and right hand. The police reported that two other persons were stabbed during the fight. The suspects then fled the scene. Both persons received stab wounds to the abdomen and were admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment. Moreover, around 21:00 hours on Sunday, acting on information, police patrol visited a home in Moblissa Village and arrested the 15-year-old suspect, along with two other teenagers ages 17, and 19. The three teenagers are in custody, assisting with the investigations. Related Similar Articles

South America surpasses record for fires Sep 17, 2024 News Members of the Joint Services responding to a wildfire at Santa Aratak  earlier this year [GDF photo]– Unusually intense fires that hit Guyana earlier in the year contributed to record (REUTERS) – South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a year up to Sept. 11. Satellite data analyzed by Brazil’s space research agency Inpe has registered 346,112 fire hotspots so far this year in all 13 countries of South America, topping the earlier 2007 record of 345,322 hotspots in a data series that goes back to 1998. The report also states that unusually intense fires that hit Venezuela, Guyana and Colombia earlier in the year contributed to the record but have largely subsided. Back in April this year 38 residents of Santa Mission in Guyana had to be evacuated as wildfires ravaged that small Amerindian community. The Guyana Fire Service back then had said that they evacuated the residents as the fire crisis had “reached a critical point, rendering it impossible for firefighters to access the affected areas for extinguishing efforts. Data released by the government earlier this year showed fire officials responded to over 2,200 fires between March 26 and April 2. Meanwhile, a Reuters photographer traveling in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon this week witnessed massive fires burning in vegetation along roadways, blackening the landscape and leaving trees like burned matchsticks. Smoke billowing from the Brazilian fires has darkened the skies above cities like Sao Paulo, feeding into a corridor of wildfire smoke seen from space stretching diagonally across the continent from Colombia in the northwest to Uruguay in the southeast. Brazil and Bolivia have dispatched thousands of firefighters to attempt to control the blazes, but remain mostly at the mercy of extreme weather fueling the fires. Scientists say that while most fires are set by humans, the recent hot and dry conditions being driven by climate change are helping the fires spread more quickly. South America has been hit by a series of heatwaves since last year. “We never had winter,” said Karla Longo, an air quality researcher at Inpe, of the weather in Sao Paulo in recent months. “It’s absurd.” Despite still being winter in the Southern Hemisphere, high temperatures in Sao Paulo have held at over 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) since Saturday. Hundreds of people marched in Bolivia’s highland, political capital La Paz to demand action against the fires, holding banners and placards saying “Bolivia in flames” and “For cleaner air stop burning.” “Please realize what is really happening in the country, we have lost millions of hectares,” said Fernanda Negron, an animal rights activist in the protest. “Millions of animals have been burned to death.” In Brazil, a drought that began last year has become the worst on record, according to national disaster monitoring agency Cemaden. “In general, the 2023-2024 drought is the most intense, long-lasting in some regions and extensive in recent history, at least in the data since 1950,” said Ana Paula Cunha, a drought researcher with Cemaden. The greatest number of fires this month is in Brazil and Bolivia, followed by Peru, Argentina and Paraguay, according to Inpe data. Unusually intense fires that hit Venezuela, Guyana and Colombia earlier in the year contributed to the record but have largely subsided. Fire from deforestation in the Amazon create particularly intense smoke because of the density of the vegetation burning, Longo said. “The sensation you get flying next to one of these plumes is like that of an atomic mushroom cloud,” said Longo of Inpe. Roughly 9 million sq km (3.5 million sq miles) of South America have been covered in smoke at times, more than half of the continent, she said. Sao Paulo, the most populous city in the Western Hemisphere, earlier this week had the worst air quality globally, higher than famous pollution hotspots like China and India, according to website IQAir.com. Bolivia’s capital of La Paz was similarly blanketed in smoke. Exposure to the smoke will drive up the number of people seeking hospital treatment for respiratory issues and may cause thousands of premature deaths, Longo said. Inhaling wildfire smoke contributes to an average 12,000 early deaths a year in South America, according to a 2023 study in the academic journal Environmental Research: Health. September is typically the peak month for fires in South America. It’s unclear whether the continent will continue to have high numbers of fires this year. While rain is forecast next week for Brazil’s center south, where Sao Paulo is located, drought conditions are expected to continue through October in Brazil’s northern Amazon region and center-west agricultural region. Related Similar Articles