-citing harm to environment
Two Guyanese, Wintress Morris and Joy Marcus are heading to the courts in an effort to head off a project approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which they say will significantly contribute to greenhouse gas pollution, consequently negatively affecting the planet.
The plaintiffs outlined in a release yesterday that they have gone to court against the EPA to protect Guyana and the Guyanese people from the impacts of the proposed ExxonMobil Guyana, Hammerhead petroleum project. They are represented by attorneys-at-law Melinda Janki, Tim Prudhoe, Anna-Kay Brown, and Suzanne Bullen.
The release accused the EPA of putting out terms of reference for the Hammerhead environmental impact assessment (EIA) which do not take into account the impact of greenhouse gas pollution from burning the oil and gas from Hammerhead. Further, that oil/gas will produce huge amounts of greenhouse gas pollution, which, as the Agency is well aware, harms people, animals, plants and the entire planet.
