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Sep 05, 2020 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
ExxonMobil is taking full liberty of Guyana’s sovereignty by flaring on its water, flame, fame, fire, fortune and the future of this country. This nation has allowed them to get away with murder, thanks to the past APNU+AFC government. Exxon continues to bore us in the eyes with their continuous lying, stab us in our backs with their deceits and make fools of us with their smooth talks. So slick is Exxon that they were very successful in manipulating the gullible Granger administration because they found the key members very gullible, accommodating and compromising. With lucrative incentives, temptation spawned the ground for infectious consequences. Meeting and greeting mated the marriage that reproduced the birth for a handicapped Guyana. Now Exxon’s management thinks that they have the entire Guyana in their pockets and they have enslaved us as a colony. Exxon wants to become the modern day colonial master so that they can dictate any terms and conditions and we have to wag our tails, nod our heads, smile gracefully, remain indebted to them and above all, praise them and thank them to come to rescue us from our plight. Exxon’s public relations team is a well-oiled propaganda machinery that is ardently deceptive with their diplomacy and the explanations that they offer are definitely contritely hollow and lack empathy. No amount of smooched language can dilute the already smudged situation and Exxon’s high-handed attitude only helps to inflate and aggravate this burning inferno. How ironic, the surrounding water that Exxon domiciles on cannot be used to extinguish this heated abatement.
Exxon regards Guyana as a poor, third-world and backward place that is vulnerable to exploit, desecrate, pollute and then discard it in a trash bin as used garbage, no longer useful but worthless. No wonder they dare to speak in threatening dictum when communicating with children of less quality, in their eyes. Oh yes, it’s back to the nineteen century discriminative days. The morsels from their golden platters are the kind of handouts that they opinioned that we deserve, nothing more and, we have to be eternally grateful to the demigods! Chances are, we shot ourselves in the foot and our choices are limited from the past agreements, thanks again to the bravado of Trotman and his villains, led by the “sanctimonious gangster.” The call must be anchored and encored in an echo that reverberates perpetually and resolutely for Trotman and his distinguished, chosen few buddies, to satisfy Guyana by providing explanations to all the unanswered questions regarding the messy oil contracts he signed. Guyana will not let “sleeping dogs lie,” this country will not rest until Trotman comes clean, this nation wants fair play and Guyanese want Trotman to articulate in a meticulous manner why he sold out the birth-right of this nation without first consulting with the entire National Assembly. All the hidden secrets must be exposed and all the associated parties must be revealed. Trotman can no longer hide or run and the time is now for him to come clean.
Exxon has royally bullied us, left, right and center. Their excuses for failing to fix the flaring is glaring and inexcusable, their explanation for subsiding the environmental issue is unacceptable and their insistence for contracting the third phase is irresistible laughable with their weak and disguised ultimatum that is far from being apprehensible. Flaring is dangerous and it is not only polluting Guyana’s environment but also consuming her resources. It is toxic to Guyanese health and the risk factor can be devastating. Your sweet talk cannot fool us. You flout our regulations yet you “suck up” to the Scottish people and appease them with immediate remedy. Aren’t Guyanese just as humane as the Scots? Or are we of a lesser being and uncivilized that is why you don’t give a damn about our interest? Guyana is wide awake and paying rapid attention to the lawsuit filed against Exxon and others by the Mayor of Hoboken in New Jersey for damages inflicted upon the city through the impacts of climate change. The city is arguing that the oil companies, including Exxon, knew about the future impacts of climate change for decades, but actively denied the science of the unfolding environmental catastrophe while prioritizing profits made from global societies reliance on oil and natural gas. All lives matter, whether white, black or brown and people come before profit. So, get your act together Exxon and do what is only right for Guyana. Guyana needs Exxon to rectify the lopsided contracts for Phase 1 and 2. Exxon took advantage of Guyana’s illiteracy and unmanly negotiators who lacked the gall and temerity to stand tall and demand better conditions for this country for various and obvious reasons. Exxon is no longer a giant in the oil industry and they stand to lose more without our oil and gas. Their shares are dropping and their values are dropping. Exxon needs Guyana’s oil to supplement and augment their falling profits and fading goodwill on the global market. Guyana will not sign the Payara contract unless Exxon agrees to play fair. This is not a request but a fair demand and the PPP/C government must stand up for Guyanese rights, unlike the APNU+AFC Party.
Respectfully,
Jai Lall
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Apr 19, 2024
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