Stating that “lives are at risk,” the Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its decision to not require an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the storage of radioactive sources to be used in the oil & gas industry.
The AFC in a press release on Monday opined that the handling of such hazardous material would have been best suited on the numerous uninhabited islands in the Essequibo River, as opposed to the earmarked Coverden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) location.
Describing it as “a failure on the part of the EPA and government to inform the nation of procedures for the disposal of radioactive waste,” the AFC noted that it has been close to a year and the EPA continues to fail in its duty to inform citizens of the locations of the treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities in their neighbourhoods for the handling of highly toxic, hazardous, and radioactive waste and material generated by oil companies.
