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bly give Guyanese a rich holiday season
gift.
After decades of trying by a slew of
international companies, commercial
quantities of oil and gas were first discovered
in May of 2015 setting off a
mad rush by the world’s leading oil and
gas producers to Guyana as Exxon had
reported very large quantities of sweet
light crude that would require relatively
limited refining from its super large
Liza 1 field.
Since then, the consortium has
drilled 15 successful wells in its Stabroek
Block, encountering dry wells in
only two out of the 15 times when its
vessels explored for hydrocarbons below
the seabed. Most of the successful wells
are located about 120 miles north and
northeast of the capital, Georgetown
and tantalizingly close to the border
with Suriname. The finds have excited
several mega firms with offshore concessions
in Guyana’s neighbor to the
east but no successful wells have been
drilled so far. Officials there say it is
only a matter of time before Suriname
finds oil offshore. It currently produced
about 16,000 barrels daily from onshore
wells.
Meanwhile, when production starts,
it would mean that Guyana would have
joined Trinidad, its neighbor to the
northwest, Barbados and Suriname as
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producers in the 15-nation group of
countries. The Guyana finds have so
excited Caribbean nations that authorities
in Jamaica, Grenada, Barbados
and The Bahamas have either stepped
up offshore exploration or are moving
to hand out exploratory permits in
earnest. Jamaican authorities reported
earlier in the year surface sea oil seeps
off its southern coast and seepages of
crude from areas inland.
As an indication of how far along
preparations for first oil have gone,
Guyana’s Department of Energy said
this week that it has arranged face to
face bidding sessions with global companies
to help Guyana deal with its
first three lifts of its share of the crude.
Apart from the three in the consortium,
others invited to the sessions include
British petroleum, Chevron, Shell, Total
of France and ENI of Italy.
“Jason Korn made the top 10 on
last year’s list, and, in the time
since, conditions on his properties
have only gotten worse,” the Public
Advocate said. “He’s earned his spot
at number one this year through his
disregard for the safety, security, and
well-being of his tenants.
“He’s not alone in these offenses,
but he represents the prime example
of a system where landlords place
profit over people,” he added. “And
the people are going to fight back.”
Williams said he toured several
apartments with Council Member
Farah Louis, representative for the
45th Council District in Brooklyn,
at 250 E. 29th Street in Flatbush,
a property which was cited for 337
HPD violations across 81 units.
Margerita Dominquez, a longtime
resident, spoke about the damage
in her apartment stemming from
moisture and mold, with parts of the
ceiling on the brink of collapse, Williams
said.
He said other tenants in the building
spoke about rodent issues and prolonged
periods without heat throughout
the building, “issues which are
pervasive across many buildings featured
on this year’s list.”
According to the 2019 Worst Landlords
List, buildings with the greatest
concentration of hazardous violations
in the Brooklyn include: 1593
Fulton Street (819 HPD Open Violations
on Average Per Month); 245 Sullivan
Place (441 HPD Open Violations
on Average Per Month); 381 Vernon
Avenue (429 HPD Open Violations
on Average Per Month); 568 Lincoln
Avenue (392 HPD Open Violations on
Average Per Month); and 261 Lenox
Road (360 HPD Open Violations on
Average Per Month).
Williams said advocates from Flatbush
Tenant Coalition joined him
and Louis following the tour and
emphasized the need for tenants to
organize in order to take on bad
landlords like Korn.
The Public Advocate, who was a
tenant organizer in Brooklyn before
entering elected office, announced
that his office would be pursuing
both legislative and community
organizing-based methods of holding
the worst landlords accountable
and working for housing justice.
Williams said his annual Landlord
Watchlist is “an information-sharing
tool intended to allow tenants, public
officials, advocates and other concerned
individuals to identify which
residential property owners consistently
flout the City’s laws intended
to protect the rights and safety of
tenants.”
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