The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Whiptail Development Project does not indicate any link between the proposed project’s activities and tsunamis, a release yesterday from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stated.
It went on to explain that tsunamis are natural events resulting from undersea earthquakes caused by movement of the earth’s tectonic plates. It also informed that the Whiptail Development Project EIA indicates that the likelihood of natural events such as tsunamis impacting the development project is minimal.
The EPA then referred to the informa-tion presented by the Kaieteur News on April 21, calling it “highly misleading.” It noted that the public EIA document referenced by the newspaper con-textualised the activities in the Production Development Area (PDA) in relation to various natural disasters, including tsunamis, as part of a comprehensive futuristic EIA assessment of risk.
