May 16, 2023
Weird things happen when you're an investigative reporter trying
to cover an international oil giant like ExxonMobil. Your plane
tickets are mysteriously canceled, your hotel room gets broken
into, and the local reporter that you've hired is offered a
lucrative job to work on something else. In this special bonus
episode for War on Cars Patreon subscribers, investigative
journalist and podcaster Amy Westervelt tells us
what it was like to report and produce the new season of her
podcast, Drilled. It's called "Light Sweet Crude." In it, she takes us
to the tiny South American nation Guyana where, in 2015, ExxonMobil
discovered one of the world’s largest off-shore oil reserves.
Seemingly overnight, Guyana began transforming from an
international environmental leader and model of sustainable
development to one of the world's fastest growing petrostates.
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