the legislation critics fear the bill could lead to what they call genuine hearts and jet media outlets taking over the web. and occupy activists have descended on congress and the white house saying it's not money that makes all of decisions at the top but the event didn't live up to the hype over the eyes as he had hoped to kill tens of thousands of people. on next we take you to nigeria and all the rich giant but seen by many of its own people as a place of violence and injustice so with r.t. for that special report. it's like an island cut off from everywhere accessible only by helicopter. anchor

in more than two hundred kilometers off the coast of nigeria a floating frankly that is unique in the world as big as a football pictures it's a foretaste of what the search for oil will become. this enormous craft is itself at the heart of a wider system that consists of searching for oil ever deeper under the sea and also further and further from the explosive situation that prevails on. submarines platforms and drilling vessels on a map a tiny rectangle named back. here alone of a few kilometer square that represents a new eldorado. in the center floating like a queen bee a belly full of a treasure that the whole world coverage is the flagship of the company. and i have your ideas. if there's. one.

on akpo we are far from everywhere but everything is checked. this and you've checked all the facts this is how it all back to the sort of community i go up to even the people you know that you've been working with or for years you have to search their backs and even those including the head of the station. and what are you searching for mainly. to to show anything that's about them. drugs guns knives. this kind of thing else that's better. situated on the gulf of guinea and the most populous country in africa nigeria is roughly the size of france and belgium combined. it's the size of the country the niger delta region that's the object of envy. a geological insolvent is overflowing with excellent quality oil.

thousands of drillings licensed to the oil companies of the whole world pierce the country's ground on land and at sea link together by pipelines that run through the mangroves in the sea in every direction. today nigeria is the largest oil producing country in africa the scene of a banquet between companies. all. after arriving by helicopter and after the regulation search patrick one of the two managers takes over from his colleague john francois his back to back in offshore speak. with an engineer turned manager of a nigerian father and a maltese mother. is one of the rare employees of the company to hold such a post. buried under their schedule to produce one hundred sixty three thousand barrels a day for next month we're dealing here with large volumes of

this it which is very very flammable is more flammable than normal oil and also will have lots volumes of gas at high pressure. it's a look at the system so we kind of leak if we have meat and there's a sparkle source of ignition the next thing you would have a fire and then it would put us at risk yes everybody has to be worried about fire because a fire on board would be disastrous it could be disastrous. thank you so much for we have to be careful here permanently on the alert for to you because because you can't escape. the three hundred meters long and don't go there on this one is where over story starts. the name is the floating. storage offloading units woods says everything because. it's

a unit that floats and it has capacity for production and storage we also process we don't store but we sit and export gas first task a tour of the property patrick shows us around his pipe or cathedral so we're currently. back there while the whole deck level so below. us now we have tons so one of the problems that we have vessels of this size along three. of choice corrosion of the decks and corrosion corrosion at this level. it would be difficult to repair because just underneath we have tons of oil so it will be rather impossible to cut a part out so well whatever because of the risk of exposure. is another lifeboat here and then of course we have. life rafts just this way so anybody top you say has more than enough means to. just stay.

for the first time we've been allowed access to this incredibly technological and highly risky structure. on board are two hundred forty men so completely lost in the interlacing of pipes that you almost never meet anyone the f.p.s. serve as a citadel of tubes valves elbows through which flows the precious liquid below are dozens of pipes reaching down to the bottom of the sea which suck up the oil. but you could say that workers here are like the distant extras in a giant mcconnel construction protected by the navy another permanent surveillance from countless cameras. a technological exploit certainly but in a context of political paranoia. good morning. to nigerian navy patrol boat stand guard twenty four hours a day under the olders of antonio djoko patrol rulebook. he

moved into security work after twenty two years in the army twenty two years of happiness as he describes it he's a man who searches the bags organizes patrols and supervises all movements around the base. but. you. always look so here we have the eye mucking about and so there are operations center where we monitor the whole of the echo field. with this radar to come into it which allows us to check all the boats arriving. can the two of you to know what boat is the right thing and especially to pick up any suspect record that wasn't expected to enter the field i think in all these cameras they monitor all the accesses here. and inside the.

reciprocal to move to secure but that's a lot of security measures for extracting oil. so on this on this is where the measures required to nigeria of the day considering the threats that exist as you say my jury are three iris the ordering of the men malicious intent. and espionage and boats intruding in the maritime exclusion zone. doesn't this one item that they obviously are you armed here on board since it doesn't i'm not armed. if i don't there are no weapons on board even you don't have money no making your ruler should have some guys climb up the chain and they have weapons machine guns for example what do you do but i don't see the other measures that would be taking place measures that have been designed for that situation. there are no guns on board and the situation is under control i repeat the situation is under control.

i mean ari is a small fishing village situated on the island of bonny right at the mouth of the niger delta. and it's here that the gas sent from the f.p.s. so platform arrives undersea pipeline. if it weren't for the plant ameri ari would be a typical little village. with hearts and shacks with palm leaf roofs streets of san news it coming from portable radios open air stores kids running everywhere and a soccer match underway and the fisherman returning with the tide. all would be well if next door right next door protected by barbed wire they went sending millions of cubic meters of gas and oil to the most highly developed countries in the world. didn't want. everybody did buy

did loading gus to order for. the new york dollar not the one not the community nearby you know about it i mean any from the company. and this you just feel know is who disagrees with you. when you come up with this because you know that all looks that. twenty four hours every day study lou did not is top one this is. in the small harbor when the ships come in the giants with gas the tiny ones with fish to world's rope shoulders i did looks as if the big world is giving the tiny one the finger and that if you wanted to do was get a good look we took our own boat metal shop.

and. sometimes sometimes. nigerian people work for the companies yes there was the little boys with us he brought us all. about that at the white men he says about that it's very odd you. among us but there are differing blood from us out of all of us by the dog for you to. hurt. and as a supreme insult naturally there's no gas in the village to smoke the fish and from cooking they gather wood from the forest. above the terminal on the chimneys that burn off the gas nonstop to prevent overpressure they tell us. that some of them used to the villages of oppression. these villages.

they call me do it i do some of that fish imports. i think it does i want that because of that i says it. has because i did it out for it and i said i didn't do what i did anything with. that this is not discussed it did not have it will be i think intuitively that by what i want to add not. by that repeat what i did think of what the. offshore from the village the f.p.s. the engineers and technicians continue to extract oil far from land because that's a job at the heart of the story machine the end of a pipe and in a small jar the famous brown liquid. the world's holy grail you might say.

so but this is the oil. after being treated it's a condensate it's a very light crude. i mean we're more than two thousand meters down. and we can get something out that's relatively easy to do so it comes out of the tap it's what they call the blob of nigeria. so this quality you have to go deeper and deeper to find it today or future major projects a situation of very great depth. so it's going to require immense technology. more and more to. the logical evolution to go would get the oil even deeper.

if the input of course other aspects are very important for the commercialization of this sort of the case against you mustn't see i mean i mix or water and oil because water doesn't cost much and oil costs a lot. every time we load our oil product onto a tank we have to be sure it contains a minimum of water. was up and i say the blood of nigeria because it's their role materials it's their product in europe what is it we're here to help them exploited and for me it's what is the fruit of their history we spoke of their history because seduced into it's because of their millions of years of history. because we have the. world. and i hope it will allow them to fuel their economy just. in an efficient white my this but despite that there are a few problems. from your point of view can you understand that there are people

who might want to attack you. but maybe maybe you should cut that just a bit. i'm just asking the question you don't have to answer that i know my answer is yes personally that doesn't surprise me cynical but doesn't surprise me. so he's right back on land we allude military surveillance to film something that's totally forbidden to film on pain or rest and major problems yeah. yeah. you know is this with celestin runs a protest movement to denounce the environmental damage caused by the all companies wants to show. i think the effort that's where we move. on if well and we will move into i knew we could come close though this is not been done it's in that there fifty it's the elite.

end of a pipeline most in the wild an enormous blaze the stench of gases insupportable the heat at five hundred meters is already unbearable i was thinking it was a forbidden guess like that yes that there was a quote brewing. guys and that's in two thousand and five but i'm not on that drug i'm different our government. does not have any political weight. i thought it was you know the thread was against the laws of our country but this is like a monster so how it smells stinks and the sound. like this is the most i was down there months but this is worse than the most i. see this from a distance. right now you can see. i mean that this is. all. there.

everywhere i did write about the place. it's about the. good the bad but the city is about the i miss the funny it's hard. becoming like your mama. yeah. yeah. experts say that the gas burned off in nigeria which by itself be sufficient to satisfy the energy needs of the whole continent of africa billions of cubic meters of the source in the bowels of vietnam up in smoke day. famous overpressure in the point. in reality the companies make so much money from the oil they don't even care about the gas they pump. at the same time. these massive burn offs also create acid rain so that the water from the sky is no longer drinkable. good.

garrison in charge of site surveillance court will have a visit for you we spent several hours negotiating bargaining explaining ourselves to the higher ups over the telephone. solicitors reputation and his work with amnesty international in particular allow us to get out of trouble. to. a former farm worker sinister as a leader of most of the movement for the survival of the ogoni people its founder the writer can sorrow we. denounced both the dictatorship and power in the eighty's and the ravages caused by shell the largest of the oil companies present in nigeria . in a sham trial in which he was accused of murder and despite the process stations and anger of the whole world he was condemned to death and hanged along with eight other members of the movement. which companies are selling yes i did visit. several music.

one of our company that got that but it is this is a big and. walk in nigeria company is now the much as possible. because. they don't come together because they know that when government. programs that this is a. protected permanently escorted celestin has no car no address and no children anyone who hinders or production in nigeria is under threat of death and. the village of a creek. he's even crossed by a highway of pipes that don't even buried.

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a day we would call forms that we saw fire bonnie want everybody we don't know show came to. all of this i did i hear artist he's all dead he's out on the trees our dead. on here i used to fish we were fishing no fish don't want to golly he's gone down for ever one day spiel i sell disco i doubt he's been he's very. large do we see it is so with us because we're always afraid to people damages and composition. was all you could. we mustn't lump everyone together not all the companies behave or have behaved as

badly a shell in nigeria. it's just the worst one amongst them. offshore total allows us to go from installation to installation. jack ryan is a motionless vessel position by satellite with its derrick and its pipes it conforms to the stereotypical image we have of oil drilling. beneath the boat three thousand meters of water on it or pockets or a further two thousand meters below the sea bed. and an apocalyptic day in harsh conditions a few months back a crane dragged three men into the sea one die. for the nigerians on board the wages are unique you earn a good living in oil whether you're black or white.

it's a big country they've got a big bunch of fried you know that want to. tell you it's a big country i bet yes poppy be. happy possibly. not i want to i don't know but. on the floor below we can clearly see a pipe plunging into a poor part of the ship. this is the i'm going to call court fix to the seabed. inside the slide the rounds that were drilled down to the deposit. and the oil is reached they install a sort of giant valve several stories high over the drilling has been done it and the engineers have a very pretty nickname for it. but. the

point here we are in front of the christmas tree is that when you cool it the christmas tree which you know the christmas tree has the well head and ridges and georgia that was based on you since you have all this must stay here i know. it. was my. face. yeah. yeah. so if it was a. christmas tree they'd be days if i didn't want to for that why this is it's what. has been done with the price i feel like seventh son to us about fires going on we will be to go to. my front foot if i could see to do this but. first this is going. to twenty feet first must be. there so we started to go on

a seven. by. seven day so. you have the money back when you bet. your. three years on these so it. cannot be bought with those those give you i think make. sure celestin is continuing his crusade and he takes us to an incredible spot swallowed up by the undergrowth for. the birds far away. i would read in bed that already or where. i went up i want. to read that there are fifty six. if you. specify where i was stuck. in that that. i'm not so bad about the loss of the less

but as i speak done like my place you know going in not doing it i've been a course tossed you can see the bond and used to think like you can see ya bond on he's going to look like one or finishes will go on. a money i'm bugles after you finish she's abandoned a community is not right.

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