The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) yesterday heard that there were “fatal gaps” in the EPA’s decision to waive an impact study for the new Demerara Harbour Bridge and it was urged to overturn it.
Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly was named as the only appellant and presented her own arguments. The hearing was presided over by EAB’s Chair Pradeepa Bholanath and members Dr Garvin Cummings and Joslyn McKenzie.
The trio is tasked with determining whether the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to waive the environmental impact assessment (EIA) was made using sound data or should be reversed.