EMA issues environmental clearances for energy and hotel projects

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has is­sued two Cer­tifi­cates of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CECs) for projects in the en­er­gy and tourism sec­tors.

CEC7133/2025 was grant­ed to Peren­co Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed for the recom­mis­sion­ing of an ex­ist­ing pro­duced wa­ter treat­ment sys­tem on the Amher­s­tia Plat­form, lo­cat­ed in the South­east Ga­le­o­ta Block off the south-east coast of Trinidad. The ap­proval al­lows for the treat­ment and con­trolled dis­charge of pro­duced wa­ter to fa­cil­i­tate gas ex­port op­er­a­tions and in­creased pro­duc­tion from an ex­ist­ing well.

The EMA said the ap­pli­ca­tion un­der­went a de­tailed tech­ni­cal re­view, in­clud­ing an Eco­log­i­cal Risk As­sess­ment sup­port­ed by hy­dro­dy­nam­ic mod­el­ling and worst-case dis­charge sce­nario analy­sis. The cer­tifi­cate was is­sued on Feb­ru­ary 26, 2026.

L to R – Doolar Ramlal, EMA Chairman; John Aboud, Superior Hotels Trinidad and Tobago Limited; and Neeala Mongroo, EMA Deputy Chairman. [Image courtesy EMA]

Environmental Management Authority

On the same date, CEC7199/2026 was grant­ed to Su­pe­ri­or Ho­tels Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed for the con­struc­tion of a 109-room ho­tel on ap­prox­i­mate­ly 0.5862 hectares of land off Tarou­ba Link Road, San Fer­nan­do.

Dur­ing the CEC han­dover at the EMA’s North Of­fice, CEC hold­er John Aboud said the ap­proval rep­re­sent­ed a record turn­around time in his ex­pe­ri­ence.

The EMA stat­ed that both projects were as­sessed in ac­cor­dance with en­vi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tions be­fore ap­provals were grant­ed.