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Guyana: A tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate
- Qem 2y agoGrowing with lax environmental oversight. Apparently oil companies can push the brunt of liability for oil spills to the taxpayer there. See: https://ieefa.org/resources/recent-decision-leaves-exxonmobil-responsible-only-part-guyana-oil-spill-costs-leaving https://ieefa.org/resources/recent-decision-leaves-exxonmobi... Under those conditions, one wonders how long can they roll the dice before a Deepwater Horizon lookalike disaster happens.