S8 Ep1 | The Boom

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Five years ago, Kiana Wilburg was a new reporter when ExxonMobil executives and Guyanese government officials announced they had found oil 40 miles offshore. Wilburg and her newsroom had to quickly learn about the industry and this company that was suddenly so influential in their country and were left with just one question: exactly what kind of a deal had the country signed onto? Visit https://brilliant.org/Drilled for 30 days free and 20% off a subscription. Subscribe to our newsletter for curated weekly climate news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We interrupt this program to bring you a breaking news story.
0:11.2	US oil giant Exxon strikes oil in Guyana.
0:14.8	Now one of the prominent election issues in Guyana has been the country's oil exploration
0:19.5	effort.
0:20.5	They were rumors swirling that Guyana had found oil.
0:26.3	Like almost all its neighbors, Guyana is not yet an oil producer.
0:30.8	The last week Exxon mobile announced it had discovered oil off the coast.
0:38.9	In May 2015, Exxon mobile announced that it had struck oil off the coast of the small
0:45.1	South American country of Guyana.
0:47.8	And in Guyana, this was a big deal.
0:50.8	And then, just a couple months later, Exxon was making headlines for another reason
0:55.8	entirely.
0:56.8	An investigation is underway into Exxon mobile.
1:00.6	The huge oil company buried research about the effects of climate change.
1:04.8	Reports suggest more than 30 years ago, Exxon's own scientists were taking climate change
1:09.5	projections into account in its operational plans.
1:14.0	Exxon was on the cutting edge of science.
1:16.0	They wanted to be on the cutting edge of science 40 years ago on climate change.
1:20.5	Journalists at Inside Climate News, the LA Times and Columbia Journalism School published
1:25.8	dozens of internal documents that showed that Exxon mobile had been warned by its own
1:32.1	scientists about climate change back in the 1970s.
1:36.5	And yet, had worked hard to keep the world from ever hearing those warnings or taking
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