The Two Sides Of Guyana: A Green Champion And An Oil Producer

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

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For Guyana the potential wealth from oil development was irresistible — even as the country faces rising seas. Today on the show, host Emily Kwong talks to reporter Camila Domonoske about her 2021 trip to Guyana and how the country is grappling with its role as a victim of climate change while it moves forward with drilling more oil. (encore)

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0:20.8	Hey Shortwaivers, Emily Kwong here with an encore of an episode we did about Gaiana.
0:27.0	A country grappling with the tension between the harms of climate change and the potential for wealth from oil. It's a tension we're seeing
0:34.7	in countries all over the world. Stick around till the end and we'll update you on how things
0:39.9	are going in Guyana today. You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:47.0	Reporter Camila Dominozky,
0:50.0	welcome to the podcast dude.
0:52.0	Thank you so much for having me.
0:54.0	I'm so excited to be here.
0:55.4	You're one of my favorites at NPR
0:57.1	and all the time we say on this show
0:59.8	that climate change is complicated and you just reported a story that is full of complications.
1:05.8	You went to Guyana, a country on the Atlantic coast of South America and Exxon wants to step up its
1:12.0	offshore oil drilling there off the coast.
1:14.8	How did all that get started in Guyana?
1:17.6	Right, well there was basically no oil industry in Guyana at all
1:21.9	until Exxon discovered oil off the coast a few years ago and they
1:26.8	discovered a lot of oil. So the country is getting into oil production in a big way at exactly the moment that around
1:37.7	the world everyone's talking about the need to transition away from fossil fuels.
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