Responding to calls by local Attorney-at-Law Elizabeth Deane-Hughes to postpone the planned public consultation for the gas-to-power project until the expiry of the mandatory 60 days comments/objections period, President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge has said that the sessions are intended to be complementary to the review process and should proceed.
Deane-Hughes, in identical letters on May 5th, addressed to Routledge and Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Kemraj Parsram, highlighted a number of concerns with the proposed consultations for the gas-to-power project. She argued that citizens should be allowed, uninterrupted, the time to comb through the voluminous document and then raise their concerns.