Robin Barnwell

BIG OIL V THE WORLD

This documentary for ITV’s award-winning Exposure strand goes undercover inside a secretive province in China to provide a vivid insight into how its government is holding an estimated million or more Muslims in detention camps without trial.

The Chinese government’s detention of Uyghur Muslims is the largest incarceration of an ethnic group since the Second World War, and the programme explores claims that 12 million other Muslims are now living outside detention in what campaigners say is an ‘open prison’.

Footage taken earlier this year by an undercover Exposure journalist shows just how extensive surveillance, specifically of the Uyghur population, has become in this region.

Big Oil v the World (BBC)

The Power of Big Oil (PBS)

PART THREE: DELAY

“Forensic documentary examines climate change’s culprits
★★★★☆”
— The Financial Times
“A jaw-dropping exposé on how big oil has sold out the planet and future generations. As the catastrophes mount, turn your anger to the likes of Exxon, Shell, Endarko, Halliburton, and the fossil fuel industry for their deceit and betrayal of the public trust.”
— Mark Ruffalo
 

The epic three-part documentary series investigates the decades-long failure to confront the threat of climate change and the role of the fossil fuel industry.

Part three of this series, DELAY examines how the fossil fuel industry worked to delay the transition to renewable energy sources. DELAY is the story of how the 2010s became a critical lost decade in the fight against climate change.

The film charts in forensic detail how the gas industry mounted a PR campaign to promote gas as a “clean” form of energy with devastating consequences. President Barack Obama, seen as the “first climate President”, would initially champion America’s harmful natural gas boom.

Engineer Tony Ingraffea explains how, in the 1980s, he helped develop a new technique for extracting gas and oil from shale rock, which ultimately became known as ‘fracking’. It was to unleash vast new reserves of fossil fuels and was promoted as a cleaner energy source. But Ingraffea explains how he later came to regret his work when he realised that gas could be even worse for climate change than coal and oil. 

Dar-Lon Chang, a former ExxonMobil engineer, alleges that when Exxon joined the fracking boom it was not sufficiently monitoring methane leaks that were contributing to climate change. Now, after a year of unprecedented wildfires, drought and other climate-related disasters, multiple lawsuits are being brought in US courts in efforts to hold Big Oil legally accountable for the climate crisis.

Part Three, DELAY:

Directed, filmed and produced by Robin Barnwell
Producer: Gesbeen Mohammad
Film Editor: Guy Creasey
Composer: Richard Spiller
Series Producer: Dan Edge
Senior Producers: James Jacoby and Eamonn Matthews
Broadcast on PBS FRONTLINE and BBC2 (Mongoose Pictures)

Part Two, DOUBT: Cinematography by Robin Barnwell

Part One, DENIAL: Camera

 
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