A group of civil society activists are calling for the postponement of the public hearings on the Wales gas to shore project, citing among other reasons, that having Head of the Guyana Energy Agency Dr Mahender Sharma on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) was a conflict of interest.
If he recused himself from the hearings, the group charged, because of the government’s recent appointment of only three persons to a board that required five, only two members would remain, resulting in there not being a quorum. They therefore called for the EAB Tribunal, as stipulated under the laws of this country, to be activated.