Exxon Audit needed to determine conflict of interest

Dec 21, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Reference is made to commentaries about Exxon audit and potential or probable conflict of interests in monitoring Exxon’s environmental record. There was a commentary that Mr. Shyam Nokta signed off on Exxon’s request for approval for drilling and production. He is supposed to be monitoring Exxon’s environmental record. But doesn’t his personal company have contract with Exxon?
Mr. Shyam Nokta was not only a candidate on PPP list in 2020 elections, his environmental company, Environmental Management Consultants Inc. (EMC), was reported to get contracts with Exxon and has a very close relationship with Exxon as well as with the Guyana government. And he signs off on environmental report, according to your news report.
Nokta claims he is an environmental specialist. I don’t know if he is a scientist. But it would be interesting to know his take on Exxon releasing pollutants in the atmosphere and its effects on Guyanese and neighbouring countries as well as on declining fish catch.
Internet news report that Nokta’s Environmental Management Consultants Inc. has a partnership with Acorn International in USA. Doesn’t Acorn Int’l also have a very close working relationship with Exxon? An audit of Exxon’s Guyana Energy expenditures would reveal who were contracted and paid (how much). Would Guyana ever see an audit which would expose all of the conflicts of interest and who were/are silenced?
Yours truly
Jillian Adams

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