With hearings scheduled for 5pm today at the Cara Lodge, Quamina Street, Georgetown, civil society activists are waiting to see if the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) will postpone the event as they have called for.
The group has asked that the public hearings on the Wales gas-to-shore project be postponed, citing among other reasons, that having the head of the Guyana Energy Agency, Dr Mahender Sharma, on the board was a conflict of interest.
And should he recuse himself from the hearings, the group charged, because of 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. As such they have called for the EAB Tribunal, as stipulated under the laws of this country, to be activated.