{"id":1918,"date":"2024-08-14T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2024-09-01T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T18:22:45","slug":"guyanas-oil-boom-or-blowout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"Guyana\u2019s oil \u2013 boom or blowout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><strong>Discussion with <em>Melinda Janki<\/em> Attorney-at-Law<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jtgxsMKA_g0?si=WaQt3nknUjyWymZZ&amp;start=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the UK media runs stories on Guyana\u2019s oil boom the reality in country is very different.<br \/>\nEnrichment of ExxonMobil. Impoverishment of ordinary people. Pollution of ocean and atmosphere. Exxon\u2019s oil operations also threaten the Caribbean. This Exxon map shows one scenario of an oil spill reaching as far as Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"justify\"><strong>Melinda Janki<\/strong> LL.B, BCL (Oxon), LL.M is an international lawyer, winner of the Commonwealth Law Conference Rule of Law Award 2023, and an attorney-at-law in Guyana. She leads the legal team challenging dangerous deep water petroleum operations. Successes include court orders for ExxonMobil Guyana to produce insurance, an unlimited parent company guarantee from ExxonMobil Corporation for the costs of pollution, and a US$2bn guarantee. Ms Janki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cases on behalf of Guyanese citizens have cut ExxonMobil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s environmental permits down from 20+years to 5 years, established that ExxonMobil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s environmental permit for the gas pipeline was illegal, and imposed joint and several liability for pollution from Exxon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s petroleum operations. Her cases have also established public rights to challenge petroleum operations through liberal rules on standing, public rights to information and participation in environmental matters. She obtained a decision from the Caribbean Court of Justice that courts should not award costs against public interest litigants acting in good faith to protect the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion with Melinda Janki Attorney-at-Law While the UK media runs stories on Guyana\u2019s oil boom the reality in country is very different. Enrichment of ExxonMobil. Impoverishment of ordinary people. Pollution&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}