Welcome to a new year of drilled and our sister show, Damages.

I'm Amy Westervalt.

Next month we'll be bringing you a new narrative season across both shows that is all about

the new wave of oil colonialism underway in the global south.

Fossilfield companies can see their writing on the wall and they are racing each other

to tap all of their reserves.

No one wants to be the one left standing with the most unsolved barrels of oil.

So we're seeing this explosion of development across Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

A lot of these projects fall into what reporters for the Guardian described as carbon bombs.

Last year, I don't know if you remember reading that story about how all these companies had

committed to emissions reductions but also had plans on the books for these major fossil

field developments.

Here we are, the carbon bombs are being built and there are some efforts underway to diffuse

them.

We're going to tell that story through a deep dive into what's been happening in one small

South American country that's gone from being the world's top ecotourism destination

to one of its largest oil producing states in just a few years.

That country is Guyana.

It's the only English-speaking country in South America, it has a population of just under

800,000 people and today it is the fastest growing economy on earth.

That's thanks to a major oil boom led by Axon Mobile.

This is a fascinating story with a lot of twists and turns.

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