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Letter sent to Engine 1's Directors on Board of Directors of ExxonMobil

 Letter sent 15 June 2022 Dear Engine 1 Directors on Board of Directors of ExxonMobil,   Mr. Goff, Ms Hietala, Mr. Karsner, Mr Runevad,     Greetings of wellbeing.     Since 2016 ExxonMobil has been developing oil fields in the seas of Guyana, a country   which has a Green State Agenda and has been awarded the prestigious #1” Best of Ecotourism” destination award. This sparsely populated country, under-educated in the Oil & Gas sector, is unable to combat the onslaught of the rapidity of the oil field developments and the proposed upcoming gas sector development. These developments have serious consequence on both the environment and its multi-ethnic people as the multi-national fails to adhere to the environmental and legal regulations of Guyana. ExxonMobil is currently concentrating   most of its future development in the oil and gas sector in this country located on the northern coast of South America. From the inception, Liza-1 Oil Field Development, Exxon
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From an oily contract to an unregulated gaseous pipeline: Guyanese must say no to ExxonMobil’s eyepass

  By Elizabeth Deane-Hughes Diaspora Column 6 June, 2022 Elizabeth Deane-Hughes has been a non-practicing Attorney since the late 1990s. She is very passionate about ensuring that the nascent gas sector starts up with proper regulations and legal instruments in place. She dreams of going back to her farm and creativity when these faulty GTE pipeline EIA/EIS are withdrawn or repudiated. Hopefully very soon! We were unprepared and undereducated for the Oil Industry in 2006. Fast forward to 2022 and the Gas aspect of the Oil & Gas industry is about to start up on very faulty grounds and yet still we are unprepared and undereducated. The oil and the gas sectors of the one industry commonly called O & G entertain entirely different risks. Everybody knows oil is not gas and gas doesn’t turn into oil, even if gas may be in the mix of oil coming up from the wells deep at the bottom of the sea. On 20 April 2022 the developer ExxonMobil Guyana submitted their Environment
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Corporate Social Responsibility

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  Intro “ Corporate social responsibility is a self-regulating business model that helps a company be socially accountable to itself, its stakeholders, and the public”. 1 There are various benefits that companies will reap by being socially responsible, however, the main ones are that they are likely to have a better brand image (which in turn will increase revenue and the number of investors) and that they are more likely to avoid legal action or government intervention. Some more general benefits of companies being socially responsible are shown in the graph. This article will focus more on how a company's social responsibility will affect society and the local areas where the business operates, as opposed to the businesses themselves, however, it is important to note that social responsibility does also benefit the company. From here on out corporate social responsibility will be referred to as CSR. Section 1 Types of social responsibility The first type, and
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Together we can do this!

  The issue: The Gas-to-Energy (GTE) pipeline, a project between Government of Guyana and ExxonMobil Guyana- EEPGL/ExxonMobil, is governed by the 1794/2016 Petroleum Agreement - please see it attached.      The developer EEPGL has submitted its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Impact Strategy (EIS) to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on or about 20 April 2022.   There is by designation of the Environmental Protection Act a 60-days period for persons to submit concerns which said period ends 18 June 2022.    There is an off-shore part where the pipeline runs on the seabed and there is an on-shore aspect which runs from Crane through Canal nos. 1&2 then into Wales somewhere, they (EEPGL and its independent consultants ERM) were not clear where their responsibility would end on terra firma, when I asked at a public consultation meeting on 11 May 2022.  The terra firma aspect has serious issues with compliance to the Rule of Law in
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Statement made at EEPGL Public Consultations on 11 May, 2022

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  11 May 2022 Greetings of wellbeing to all I take this opportunity to make it pellucidly clear that I have no objections to pipeline nor this one per se My concerns are with the lack of due process and following procedure. There are fundamental breaches in adherence to the instruments that govern our country and also that of the Gunning principles. This can however be fixed, simply by recalling the submitted documents at EPA correcting the errors which include but are not limited to Engaging the primary stakeholder who are in the AOI – it’s interesting that the document has photographs of houses in Crane, Canals# 1&2 but yet still the people living next to the proposed pipeline were not engage. It is agreed that extensive stakeholder consultations were held throughout regions 1-6 but this group was overlooked Attached the required signatures and addresses, etc of the developer on the documents as per EPAct and the regulations – the omission has seriou
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