The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned 18 operations that they face closure for failing to adhere to requirements.
In an ad in the Sunday Stabroek yesterday, the EPA listed the operations including hotels, livestock-rearing facilities, sand mines and rice mills, among others, and said that it will be moving to close them for failure to adhere to its Enforcement Notices or uplift finalised Environmental Authorisations.
EPA Executive Director Dr Vincent Adams told Stabroek News yesterday that the agency has tried “ad nauseam” to reach the developers of the projects listed, to no avail. “The companies listed are some that have been ignoring our requests. We will take whatever legal recourse at our disposal, whatever penalty, which may result in them shutting down their operations,” he said.
