{"id":19808,"date":"2024-05-27T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=19808"},"modified":"2024-05-27T17:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:55:26","slug":"attorney-general-nandlall-responds-to-ccj-ruling-on-exxonmobil-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/attorney-general-nandlall-responds-to-ccj-ruling-on-exxonmobil-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Nandlall Responds to CCJ Ruling on ExxonMobil Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>By Samuel Gillis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney General Anil Nandlall has expressed no surprise at the Caribbean Court of Justice&#8217;s (CCJ) decision to involve the government in the ongoing case with ExxonMobil regarding an unlimited parent company guarantee for oil spills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nandlall pointed out that as a signatory to the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement with ExxonMobil, the Guyanese government should have been included in the appeal from the beginning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He dismissed allegations from certain media outlets suggesting the government had covertly filed the appeal and was aligning with ExxonMobil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nandlall emphasized that the government and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are responsible for determining an adequate amount for the parent guarantee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also noted that the CCJ&#8217;s order to include the government reversed a decision by the Court of Appeal, which he deemed clearly erroneous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCJ has announced it will provide detailed reasons for its order soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Gillis Attorney General Anil Nandlall has expressed no surprise at the Caribbean Court of Justice&#8217;s (CCJ) decision to involve the government in the ongoing case with ExxonMobil regarding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19810,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19808\/revisions\/19810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}