(PESIA) Weg naar Zee 2D Seismic - Staatsolie

P-all consultants Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V.
PESIA Weg naar Zee 2D Seismic 2012
Annex 4
Obtaining the views of stakeholders during the Scoping Stakeholders meeting
On July 9 th 2012 a scoping stakeholder meeting was organized by Staatsolie at Weg naar Zee
Gemeenschapscentrum, Henri Fernandesweg 424. Staatsolie has effectively implemented
advance publicity for this scoping meeting to ensure that a good cross-section of people attended
the meeting. Invitation letters and the agenda of the meeting were distributed in the study area
and to other stakeholders. About 50 persons attended the meeting. The meeting was chaired by
Staatsolie Community Relations. Attendance list and Agenda of the meeting are added in a
separate file to this report as Annex 3. In the further study stage P-all will make sure to contact
people who had specific questions during this meeting. This will be part of the approach of the
social impact analysis that P-all will make of the study area.
The opening was done by Mr. Steven Alfaisi, who gave a short introduction of the Department of
‘Community Relations’. Hereafter Mrs. Joan Telgt introduced the ESIA process. Then Mr. Cor
Pigot spoke about the ‘Scoping Process’.
Then the exploration process of Staatsolie was introduced by Mr. Ricardo Kandhai, followed by
Mrs. Eshita Narain who introduced the ‘Drilling’ project and again Mr. R.Kandhai on the ‘2D
Seismic’ project. The evening was closed by Mr. S.Alfaisi.
Table 9: Issues rose during the meeting by stakeholders.
Nr Stakeholder Issue raised Answer *
Mr. Baynath;
Manager of
Pilgrimage Weg naar
Zee, farmer and
member of local union
(‘buurtvereniging’)
Weg naar Zee. He is
also the chairman of
the ‘Cooperation
Kwatta’.
He stated not to be against any
oil exploration or exploitation,
in fact everybody has to support
Staatsolie in this. He would like
to see that such meetings start at
a later time, as 18.00 hour is not
a suitable time for farmers. He
also brought forward the bad
imago that Staatsolie has under
the local people saying that the
local people are not benefitting
from Staatsolie while it
sponsors money-consuming
activities such as car rallies. He
complains about high salaries of
Staatsolie staff and employee’s.
He brought to Staatsolie’s
attention the flooding of some
inland agricultural lands in the
Weg naar Zee area such as
Awarahé, hoping that Staatsolie
will look into dyke
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Staatsolie (SO) stated that
note has been taken of his
comments and attention
will be paid to them.
Furthermore another time
for the meetings will be
considered.