What happened when Guyana struck oil.
Kiana Wilburg
Kiana is an Afro-Caribbean oil and gas reporter for Kaieteur News, one of the largest papers in Guyana, and reports for Drilled on the fossil fuel industry in the Latin American Caribbean region. She has been covering the industry since Exxon first announced its discovery of oil in Guyana in 2015 and has published stories in the region for Reuters, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Intercept as well. Kiana is based in Georgetown, Guyana.
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New Oil Colonialism
For decades now, the fossil fuel industry has told the same story: Oil equals development and prosperity. Access. Equality. Stability. A better quality of life. As the world’s fossil fuel companies race to tap the last of the planet’s oil reserves we have a chance to examine that promise up close, in real time. What […]
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