Open letter to the EPA on permit for ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail project

Mr. Parsram

Executive Director

The Environmental Protection Agency 

Georgetown Guyana

 

Dear Mr. Parsam:

 The EPA’s Media Release: “Clarification on misconceptions on the Yellowtail EIA Process” dated April 3, 2021, and the Agency’s ongoing media campaign provide an ugly example of public deception. 

 The EPA has systematically and knowingly violated the Environmental Protection Act in its handling of ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary EEPGL’s Yellowtail Project environmental assessment and permit process. Here I outline only four of those violations, which make the Yellowtail Environmental Permit invalid: