Oil and Gas in the Arctic | Ice Race | Free Documentary

Ice Race - Oil and Gas in the Arctic | Arctic Documentary

Oil and gas are the very blood of our modern industrial society and our last major reserves are to be found in the Arctic.

The lives of practically everyone on earth would be different if we did not have oil and gas. Our reserves will soon become depleted, apart from in the Arctic. Our episode entitled “Entering Virgin Territory” explains the dramatic energy situation. How would this impact on the vulnerable Arctic environment and the indigenous populations living in the area? Should Arctic considerations take precedence over the living standards of the rest of the world? The situation is most dramatic in the USA. This superpower will soon have no major oil wells left. The country is currently consuming three times as much oil as it produces and it is paying sky-high prices throughout the world to secure access to this black gold. The northernmost town in the USA, Barrow, lies in the middle of an area which is believed to contain Alaska’s richest oil reserves. The local Eskimo population lives mainly off the area’s natural land and sea resources, and an indomitable will to survive. They are now directing their energy towards the oil industry that wants to establish activities in the area.

As the Polar ice starts to melt the oil industry is dreaming about making major oil and gas finds in this more or less untouched territory. The violent conflicts and wars that are taking place in some of the world’s most affluent oil states are adding further fuel to these dreams. But who should be entitled to extract future oil and gas reserves in the Arctic? Where do the borders run in this icy territory? History has shown us that this is an extremely dangerous situation. Because will a world that is becoming increasingly more dependent on oil respect national borders, historic territorial claims and be able to resolve border conflicts in an amicable manner? In our fourth and final programme, “Border Conflict”, we show how the new race in the Arctic is creating new borders and new conflicts.
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ice Race part III Entering Virgin Territory

Oil and gas have been the very blood of our modern industrial society and our last major reserves are locked underneath the Arctic. Will alternative sustainable energy forms save this nature reserve?
We sure hope so.

Everyone's lives would be different if we didn't have oil and gas. We know already the reserves will be depleted soon. It seems - at the time this documentary was made - that The Situation is most dramatic in the USA. And remains so until the government and industries embrace sustainable energy forms at a faster rate than before. The country currently consumes 3x as much oil as it produces. The northernmost town in the US, Barrow, Alaska, lies in the middle of an area which is believed to contain Alaska's richest oil reserves. The local Eskimo population lives mainly off the area's natural land and sea resources and an unbending will to survive. They are now directing their energy towards the oil industry that want to exploit these reserves.

In our fourth and final episode coming up next Friday, we show how the new race in the Arctic is creating new borders and conflicts.

[kinzathinley]

Who else just started randomly watching this during lockdown and is now addicted

[ExxonMobilCompany]

With markets tumbling, inflation soaring, the Fed imposing large interest-rate hike, while treasury yields are rising rapidly—which means more red ink for portfolios this quarter. How can I profit from the current volatile market, I'm still at a crossroads deciding if to liquidate my $125k bond/stock portfolio

[sfhannn]

Knowledge is World Windows.
So for the man behind the desk thank you so much.

[Kingsmugi]

The only reason why discovery Channels will run out of business, we got free documentaries on YouTube

[LearnReason]

The USA is one of the biggest oil producers in the world not sure how old this documentary is?

[lagoat]

It's interesting that the Inuit people, 'Eskimos' as the narrator says, are dead set against oil development and want to hunt by traditional means, yet all seem to have four wheel drive trucks, and go on the ice with snowmobiles. I guess they're ok as long as the oil comes from someone else's backyard.

[anshrana]

These documentary always makes me nostalgic when I used to watch discovery and net geography on TV .

[justkiddin]

I've been working up in the North slopes of Alaska for over 10 years now I have some really good friends in barrow. Love this Documentary about it.

[billkgeorge]

Opening line: the world's final oil reserves are becoming depleted. That's false: there are no "final oil reserves". New reserves are being discovered reach year & existing reserves are not getting depleted even if individual wells have a finite life span. It's a scare line to get further land & sea opened up for drilling. It's like saying the world is running out of food, or wood or water.

[somaghosh]

Very nice documentary by Free Documentary.
After Middle East, Arctic Circle has become geopolitical battleground of world's great power.

[Dudley-xc]

There is no oil shortage. There never was.

[trob]

Just ran across this video by accident. I grew up in the interior of Alaska( Fairbanks) and find this subject very interesting. This video highlights a fair amount of points for doing no harm to the sea.BTW, Alaska has boroughs not counties. Thanks

[avinashsharma]

The best channel on Documentaries...

Requesting to resume with the documentaries on Dangerous ways to school...🙏🙏🙏

[drdoolittle]

Seems like this production was made 20 years ago and has been dragged out of retirement - the USA is the largest oil producer in the World and has thousands of cracking sites parked-up until the flood of oil is used up. The current pandemic has meant billions of gallons of oil are not being used

[onslaughter]

I can’t help but chuckle every time a native guy claims that big oil doesn’t know what they are doing to the environment while sitting on a snow machine outside his warm natural gas heated house and collecting his Alaska tax benefit.

[bashmanmradich]

I confess I'm also addicted to Spark documentaries.

[auvxyenekay]

Free Documentary always have great content.. Keep up the good work. Keep us informed. Bravo

[riggygnews]

The best documentaries ever. For me it's the commentators who can keep you going with humour and facts . Keep showing us more and more.

[americancivicsinstitute]

this video is over 10 years old, but nonetheless very informative.