A whole bunch signal petition for ExxonMobil to grant Guyana full protection insurance coverage
Kaieteur Information – Pink Thread Girls, a non-profit organisation on Wednesday continued protests in entrance of the Workplace of President calling for ExxonMobil to grant Guyana full protection legal responsibility for its operation within the profitable Stabroek oil block.
Greater than a dozen ladies have been protesting each first Wednesday of month since March 8, with placards calling for full protection insurance coverage and a banner that reads “We demand Rule of Regulation compliance in Oil and Gasoline, Our lives, Our livelihoods, Our Lands”.
Protestors urging motorists to signal the petition
On Wednesday one of many protestors instructed Kaieteur Information that because the protest started they’ve been urging residents not solely to hitch them however to signal a petition for ExxonMobil to grant Guyana Full Protection Insurance coverage and yesterday was no completely different. Kaieteur Information watched on as protestors stopped automobiles passing by and urged drivers and passengers to signal their petition. Many willingly gave their signatures and recommended the ladies for his or her good work.
Pink Thread instructed Kaieteur Information that it has gotten over 200 signatures already and plans to proceed protesting each first Wednesday till ExxonMobil agrees to their calls for. Presently, ExxonMobil via its operator, Esso Exploration and Manufacturing Guyana Restricted (EEPGL) is producing over 400,000 barrels of oil within the Stabroek Block with out full legal responsibility protection, despite the fact that it is a requirement in its Permits obtained to extract the useful resource.
A number of the signatures obtained on Wednesday
One of many Pink Thread members, Pleasure Marcus, had stated in a earlier interview: “we’re protesting for ExxonMobil to have full legal responsibility protection in order that within the occasion of any oil spill and so forth that we all know that might be taken care of and never be left on Guyanese and there are different points which we have now been discussing which features a higher oil deal”. Whereas including, “If you will do drilling which we’re not actually excited about having it finished, then do it in a secure and correct method and so that could be a most important precedence.”
Pink Thread Girls protesting for full protection legal responsibility.
The organisation had additionally instructed Kaieteur Information that its feminine members are “mad” and “livid” that Exxon has been proudly reporting the billions it has been incomes because of Guyana’s assets, whereas the nation is but to ensure a mother or father firm assure is secured to cowl prices if there have been to be a big oil spill.
