Watch the final episode of “The Power of Big Oil,” a three-part FRONTLINE docuseries investigating what scientists, corporations and politicians have known about human-caused climate change for decades — and the missed opportunities to mitigate the problem.
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Throughout the first two episodes of “The Power of Big Oil,” FRONTLINE went inside the fossil fuel industry’s efforts in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s to stall action on climate change by cultivating denial and doubt.
The third and final episode of the series brings the story up to the present.
“Delay,” part three of “The Power of Big Oil,” investigates how, even as the warnings about climate change grew, the U.S. reemerged as one of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers, and the fossil fuel industry worked to delay the transition to renewable energy sources — including by promoting natural gas as a cleaner alternative. But as the country was entering a gas boom, a former Exxon Mobil engineer tells FRONTLINE that the industry wasn’t monitoring for methane leaks that could turbo-charge the climate crisis.
As it brings the Big Oil series to a close, “Delay” unpacks the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations’ actions on climate change; explores what may happen next; and examines what’s at stake.
Part one, “Denial,” is now streaming: https://bit.ly/3xTxYhg
Part two, “Doubt,” is also streaming: https://bit.ly/37UjSSm
“The Power of Big Oil” is a FRONTLINE Production with Mongoose Pictures in association with BBC and Arte. The series producer is Dan Edge. The producer and director of episode 3 is Robin Barnwell. The editorial consultant is Russell Gold. The senior producers are James Jacoby and Eamonn Matthews. The executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue – 00:00
The Natural Gas Boom – 01:49
The Methane Leak Problem – 11:25
“An Oil and Gas Country” – 24:02
Clean Power Plan Comes Under Attack – 28:45
Trump Administration’s EPA Rollbacks – 37:12
Congressional Hearings & What’s Next – 41:04
Credits – 51:58
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It’s always GOP, its allies, and money-mongers
devine destiny and timing
All comments confronting their narrative will be deleted.
I can't stop imagining Mr. Hankey is talking every time the new CEO of Exxon speaks.
Obama’s full of it. The fact is, we will run out of petroleum by 2050, natural gas by 2060 and coal by 2090–not the centuries we’ve been told. And, if we burn all those fossil fuel reserves the effects on the biosphere will be beyond catastrophic
Me being 49, I remember as a kid, that I could stay outside all day in the summer without being COOKED within the first 8 minutes of stepping outside and riding my bike.
you know you have to drive an ev 200000 miles to offset carbon output from production and battery recharging? not to mention strip mining for dwindling mineral resources, done by slaves in 3rd world countries. pollution should be reduced, but entropy, and spectroscopy, run counter to the agw claim. not to mention the solutions proposed are not solutions, but instead are contributors.
Clinate change is a scam. Wake the hell up. We wouldn't be where we are if it wasn't for oil whcih powers many parts of our lives. Environmentalists get over it. Collective ignorant dopes.
If anyone thinks we are doomed from " climate change " now or in the next hamdful of generations you're an idiot with no logic or reason. Yhe climate is not what THEY tell you ot is. It's a scam to stop innovation amd cripple America do a select few elites get what they want. 65 billion hears pr however long the earth has been around and OIL and plastic straws are going to destroy it. Grow up already
You knownsomethin wrong when the first two parts have been taken down
cry about it libs
Oil is amazing
Did you know that 100 cow farts are the equivalent of 1 AOC fart? She farts all the time…
She was my bartender and she is a perpetual source of natural gas.💯
Hi I think this is useful documentary for us against climate crisis🌠
So glad the republicans care more about power and money than future generations. Go ! Rino's
Then you bring in a clown like trump and the rest of the story tells itself
This is sickening…look how people’s greed for money is exponentially destroying the planet…
Time to save the world, everyone get on board.
Weird. Part One and Two are deleted and gone- even on PBS's own site. What's up with that? Lawsuit?
Earth is doomed. Look at Europe’s heat.
Propaganda
ELON SAVE US
Learned a lot with this series. The biggest problem for trying to find a workable solution is that the whole discussion has been politicized. The folks trying to get things done about climate change have practically depended on politicians to win people over and that's never going to work. The pain of getting off fossil fuels is being pushed completely onto the consumer and that's never going to work. When I started looking into going solar, the government has it set up where I can only do this if I'm going to feed back into their power supply and still have to pay their power supply company money every month. On top of what the solar array and storage is going to cost me. The government wants the regular person to tough it up and just eat the added expense of getting off fossil fuels while they don't have to change anything? no thanks. But they simply will not allow me to use the Sun to generate my power unless they're somehow getting a cut on it, beyond the cut they get in sales tax when I buy the stuff.
It's a complicated to understand problem due to all this misinformation, but again, without getting the average person to understand it, you'll never get going in the direction to make anything better. As long as you're depending on the government to force it on people, it's just not ever going to happen. People need to feel like they're doing it because they want to, not because they're being made to.
Most of donald trumps one term in office he number one!!! Wreaked more havoc on thei country then its seen since Reagan lmmfao!! But it seemed like the whole tim trump was in there was spent trying ti undo what obama had accomplished!
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Free natural resources to exploit? We have been stealing from the Earth for a long time and rarely paying it back. Now that debt will kill us all.
I like how not one tree hugger mentioned the fact that some of the warmest temps on record were recorded before the oil industry was even a thing, or the truck or SUV were even invented
Crimes against humanity
Every president says they are the environmental president. They are all full of shit.
Jobs and profits (let's be real–profits) were far more important to Americans than OUR PLANET. That's how foolish humans are.
$650 billion 2021 in climate change LOSS. $160 billion in US taxpayer dollars WELFARE, gifts, giveaways, "subsidies" given to Big Oil. = $810 billion.
It's not "profits", it's about WHICH HUMANS get the $, and which humans pay the price for it.
"We're not going to solve the Big Oil problem unless we solve the Misinformation problem."
Not just about Big Oil, either. Turns out, planet habitability AND democracy are both being assaulted by Misinformation.
Then, there's that thing people have about Power.
I LOVE AMERICA AND AMERICANS.
LONG LIVE BARACK OBAMA AND HIS FAMILY.
CONGRATULATIONS 👏 AND LOVE 💗 FROM RAVINDER TALWAR