AFC executive, Dr Vincent Adams has voiced strong disagreement with the decision of acting Chief Justice (CJ), Roxane George SC who ruled this week in favour of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and against an action which was filed to put a stop to flaring of gas offshore by ExxonMobil.
Adams, a former Head of the EPA, said that the CJs ruling on the unlimited flaring available to ExxonMobil is “no doubt gravely puzzling and a travesty of justice against the people of Guyana”.
Speaking at press conference yesterday, he noted that the case brought by Sinikka Henry, Sherlina Nageer and Andriska Thorington asked the court to stop the indiscriminate, dangerous flaring of unlimited quantities of toxic produced gas into the atmosphere by finding that the Government’s modification of the EPA permit to allow for such reckless flaring, is illegal.
