TEASER: Discovering Oil with Amy Westervelt
The War on Cars
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4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | You know oil companies in general are never like pleasant to report on like they don't like reporters they don't like talking to reporters |
| 0:06.9 | They you know will often either you know sort of try to bully you or not talk to you at all all of those things are sort of like |
| 0:15.4 | par for the course when you're reporting on this industry in general but Exxon takes it up |
| 0:19.7 | a another level. where... |
| 0:25.0 | Hello and welcome to the War on Cars. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Aaron Napersack here with a special Patreon bonus episode. |
| 0:32.0 | With me today is investigative journalist Amy W Patreon Bonus And she joined us to talk about Super Bowl car ads. |
| 0:43.6 | Amy is also the host and producer of several podcasts focusing on the fossil fuel industry |
| 0:48.6 | and the climate crisis. |
| 0:50.5 | She just came out with season 8 of her podcast drilled and the new series is called Light Sweet Crude in it she takes us to the tiny South American nation of Guyana |
| 1:06.8 | 2015 Exxon South American nation of Guyana. In 2015, ExxonMobil discovered one of the world's largest offshore oil reserves there, and seemingly overnight, Guyana went from being an international environmental leader to one of the world's biggest petro states. |
| 1:19.0 | Why start a brand new oil industry in the middle of a climate crisis. |
| 1:23.7 | And once a project like this gets going, |
| 1:26.5 | is there anything that can be done to stop it? |
| 1:29.3 | Light sweet crude explores these questions and more. It's a great listen and Amy is here to talk about it with us. |
| 1:38.1 | Amy Westerfeld, welcome to the war on cars. |
| 1:41.5 | Thank you. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:44.0 | So where is Guyana for those who may not know and what drew you there? |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, Guyana is a really fascinating country. |
| 1:53.0 | It's the third smallest country in South America. |
| 1:56.3 | It's the only English speaking country. |
| 1:58.8 | They have fewer than 800,000 residents. It's tiny and like 90 percent. |
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