As Guyana continues to develop its oil and gas sector, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reporting an influx in applications for the importation, storage and usage of radioactive materials.
During an exercise to showcase the agency’s new monitoring equipment, Environmental Officer in the Technical Services Department Gwenetta Fordyce told the media that a radiation detection backpack was acquired to ensure compliance.
“With the emerging oil and gas sector, the country has seen an influx of you know industrial activities as it relates to the use of industrial radiographers (and) radioactive sources. Quite a lot of companies, the supporting companies for the oil and gas sector, generally bring in radioactive materials to use…we’ve seen an influx of radioactive sources,” she said.
