Dear Editor,
We write to highlight the continued failure of the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address our grave concerns and objections to continued oil exploration activities in the offshore marine environment of our beloved nation.
On February 2, 2026, objections to the exemption of an EIA for Total Energies Offshore Seismic Survey of Block S4 were submitted by Red Thread, The Greenheart Movement, Elizabeth Hughes, Vanda Radzik, Danuta Radzik and other concerned civil society members to the Chairman of the Environmental Assessment Board, in keeping with the EPA’s public notice advertised in Sunday Chronicle of Jan 4, 2026.
We followed all the guidelines of the notice. In our joint email to the EAB, we requested acknowledgement of our written objections. To date- over a month later- we still have not received any response. The EPA was also approached for assistance in contacting the EAB but this also failed to provide any acknowledgement or contact from the EAB.
We are calling on the EAB to respond to our letter and objections submitted. We are citizens of this country and have a constitutionally-guaranteed right to an unspoiled environment, and to have our objections to what we believe are environmentally harmful projects heard and addressed. The EPA is funded by the public coffers- i.e. the tax dollars of we, the Guyanese people- yet we continue to be ignored.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the EPA is not at all genuinely concerned or committed to truly engaging the Guyanese public nor protecting the environment, as they are constitutionally mandated to do, but instead that they are simply going through the motions of public consultation while rubber stamping all the activities of the foreign oil and gas entities. We, the people of Guyana, deserve better and we will continue to demand that the EAB and EPA do the job that they are funded and legally required to do.
Yours truly
Elizabeth Deane-Hughes
Sherlina Nageer- The Greenheart Movement
Danuta Radzik
Vanda Radzik
Red Thread
