Jamaican environmentalist Diana McCaulay has called for the Government of Guyana and its EPA to hold off on approving ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail well in the Stabroek Block until it shares the findings of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) with other Caribbean territories.
McCaulay’s call came last night during a consultation on the Yellowtail EIA hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the consultancy firm – Environmental Resources Management (ERM). ERM’s Todd Hall presented the virtual gathering with a number of scenarios in relation to “unplanned events” it explored during the compilation of the EIA. Those unplanned events included potential oil spills at the Yellowtail Development.
The gathering heard that an oil spill, whether mitigated or unmitigated, has the potential to impact a number of Caribbean territories along with the northwestern coast of Guyana. Hall explained that it would be a long travel for an oil spill to affect the other regions on Guyana’s coast.