“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has relegated itself to a state of laxity of enforcement and condonation compounded by a lack of vigilance thereby putting this nation and its people in grave potential danger of calamitous disaster,” those were the words of High Court Judge, Justice Sandil Kissoon, when he handed down his ruling in a monumental case against Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ‘ExxonMobil Guyana,’ Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL).
CONCERNS are rising in the local bauxite/alumina industry over the effect of the recent ruling by the Supreme Court, in favour of environmentalists and residents opposing mining in the Cockpit Cou.
The Supreme Court has barred Noranda Jamaica Partners II and New Day Aluminum (Jamaica) Limited from mining lands in St Ann's Cockpit Country, which some residents say is threatening their surviva.