Former Chevron Corporation executive Silvia Garrigo shared insights on the future of environmental sustainability, renewable energy and what the death of Fidel Castro will mean for business in Cuba with students in the College of Business’ international business and strategy program.
“I don’t think Cuba is an attractive market for multinational businesses in the fossil fuel industry now,” said Garrigo, former manager of global policy and corporate responsibility at Chevron. “Exploring and producing oil in the Caribbean is not very attractive for a large multinational because the reserves are not big enough to justify a long-term, multi-billion dollar investment.”
Read the full story of Garrigo’s conversation at BizNews.fiu.edu.
[…] Oil production in Cuba and a pristine ecosystem […]
[…] Oil production in Cuba and a pristine ecosystem […]
When we think of a pristine environment we “dream” of a type of garden of Eden, full of flowers, lush green vegetation, cuddly fuzzy warm animals etc etc. However if we apply the standard of “untouched by human hands” to the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean, it is also largely pristine following the eruptions of the Soufriere which destroyed much if not most of the previously lush and rich flora and fauna there and covered it with a thick layer of ash and lava, which doesn’t quite feel the same now, does it… So that definition or description doesn’t quite cut it in that sense either…
Nor does the idea sometimes proposed of “unchanged over thousands of years”: change is always taking place – even if we call it “evolution”..