How hidden oil pollution puts millions at risk in the Gulf - BBC World Service Documentaries

[@KnaxetMia]

Respect for the brave Iranians who speak out about the pollution even though they risk being arrested for it! Deep respect!

[@asmitasrivastava3704]

Why does this not have more views, is beyond me!

[@forgofire5583]

8 years in UAE, didn't know anything of this sort

[@gabrielmandawe6465]

You think UAE government would want their people to know this?

[@one2greentree]

There’s no freedom of press in the UAE…..your in china, the Middle East version.

[@thepalestiniankufiya]

@@gabrielmandawe6465shoutout to the uae government for helping many countries including Palestine.

[@saifshahin3644]

@@thepalestiniankufiyaBOY do some research pleasee

[@whiskersredwood]

Haven't you noticed the massive air pollution??

[@rebekahTee-er3rz]

This must be spreading globally as well. Stop these flares BP !!!!

[@zylvvvv]

Thanks for telling us the truth. It really raised my awareness about the air pollution in this area.

[@RovexHD]

There’s also the depleted Uranium left from the Gulf War, shame it wasn’t mentioned !

[@user-rn3bb3dj4p]

How dare you talk about the u.s military!!

[@whendis.roberts9903]

The Oil Company needs to pay for New Homes for these People to be Built far away from the Poison. How is this even allowed? Where are the safety regulations,?

[@manyulgarprsch]

Why don't simply use the gas to produce electricity instead of just flaring it?

[@minecraftwater8544]

i guess companies are just heartless and dont want to help people.

[@steviewonderisnotblind5833]

More refining, more transportation, more system maintenence. Up to a certain point waste for any business is just a rounding error

[@joshuaarnejo5622]

Too much smoke in the atmosphere is to be blamed for the deaths in the Middle East; their oil and gas activity should be regulated and reduced or prohibited temporarily.

[@محمد-و5ب5ز]

also east Saudi Arabia has this problem but in village not in big city

[@Upperroad4480]

If this is true,then the local oil industry should pay for new decent housing to be built very far away,and those sufferes should be given off road vehicles to get from A to B.some financial compensation should be given also.

[@shutov222]

You've done great job making this movie. Hopefully, it will change something. Baby steps, but they are very important. Thank you

[@dirkb3241]

Question, why they dont have gas to liquid plants (GTL) in place to mange this.

[@Lic51]

Great documentary 😊

[@THEALLSEEINGINNEREYE]

I lived in UAE from 2014 to 2023 for 9 years, it was not like that as BBC is reporting.

[@bobsthea]

are you lived close to it or far from it or even better, does wind direction away from these flares spot or spot on to where you lives ?

[@Surya-bz2mw]

😂........when natives express their problems......a slave come to rescue of his Slave masters

[@THEALLSEEINGINNEREYE]

@@bobsthea I lived closed to a refinery in a dense residential area in Abu Dhabi for 9 yrs though the air quality was very good . Basically I am from chennai living near a large complex of a refinery industry. The polution in chennai because of the ignorance by the refineries is intolerable. Recently during Michaung cyclone CPCL(Chennai Petrolium Corporation Limited) spilled it's crude oil in storm waters polluted residences, river, streams, ponds and the sea. Compared to that, the Pollution in UAE is 10000 times better and they're managing the pollutants stringently. If any company is non-compliant then they will be punished heavily.

[@THEALLSEEINGINNEREYE]

@@Surya-bz2mw without Fossil fuel you cannot live or move your ass out. Fossil fuel emissions create climate change is a narrative of sinister global elites agenda against the world population to deprive them the energy they depend. If you replace all vehicles with electrical instead of Fossil fuels then will you use electricity to produce electricity to charge them? 🤣🤣. Then the earth would be more polluted when they start mining the earth for battery materials and energy storage devices. Power output in EVs would not be great compared to Combustion vehicles. Improve the efficiency and reduce the emission from Fossil fuel vehicle rather than replacing them with EVs. It would be the wise choise.

[@ArgusAlf]

@@Dr.Engr005chill man 😂 he is telling the truth, why do you feel offended 😊

[@alexjaved6648]

Yeah one Year before my partner cough a lot in Dubai it goes for 6 months

[@3DWorX_Studio]

😂😂😂 that fake cough at the start got me 😂😂

[@Maniacguy2777]

Now I knew why UAE govt issued the law not to walk outside. Great work by UAE for protecting people.

[@Maniacguy2777]

@@cule2160 yes it's true govt warns not to walk outside from heat.

[@stev8020]

"But mining for batteries is also bad for the environment" I hope things will improve in te future for all industries and all people. Unfortunately, money seems to be more important than health.

[@elvishiekios8826]

Instead of burning natural gas in flares polluting the air they should put it in pipelines or liquify it and sell it for fuel. They have the technology!

[@Atifongo]

Thanks for informations.

[@M.sami12]

Some countries use that gas. I think they will have that technology soon to eliminate air pollution.

[@QuangNguyen-iq4tt]

what a cruelty and inhumanity

[@Jemisoncentral]

Possibly the worst culprits of unapologetic, intentional pollution in the world. They also sensor or hide results of independent research into the pollution levels in the UAE. AQI readings are consistently the worst in the world or top 5 offenders

[@razor2k911]

UAE? Definitely not what it seems from the outside. The reality is much worse.

[@simonac688.]

save the children 🙏

[@andrewgifford7740]

And wood burning stoves from on grid middle and higher income homes are doing the same here in the UK, yet BBC is quite happy to popularise them on its shows and home make over programs

[@whendis.roberts9903]

.Is Wood burning is just as bad as Burning Oil??????

[@andrewgifford7740]

@@whendis.roberts9903 Yes, wood stoves burn dirtier than oil fired heating systems.

[@itachiUchiha-kv2hi]

But the United States is the largest oil producer

[@arunimpandey3921]

tbh gulf is not habitable

[@johnpeace23]

What's going on? This should be stopped, and what a complete waste of precious gas what could be used! Russia does a lot of gas flaring, just to lazy to capture it!

[@annapacyniak3940]

They are killing their own people 😢😢 they had dos much money from oil why they don't invest to do it differently and help people!?

[@user-rn3bb3dj4p]

Basra has tons of uranium waste and unexploded mines as a result of the gulf war and war on terror!! Yet no mention in this documentary!!😂😂

[@alirezajahangiri6683]

Which gulf is in the title?

[@ljacobs357]

There are areas around the Houston Ship Channel that aren't much better.

[@Yousif12349]

Born locally didn’t know till my school took us to Abu Dhabi to Dubai for cop 28

[@Azo-MA]

It looks like the materially luxurious life style in the UAE comes at a high cost for its population. Human wellbeing clearly late behind material wellbeing. Curiously, I have been thinking of moving there for working at some point in time. Talking of gas flares pollution, I am from Kirkuk city, one big oil producing city, and has my house located just a mile or so from the filed where the "eternal fire" of Baba Gurgoor, the main cluster of the oil wells, has been burning for centuries.

[@kalatapie]

Wealthy Arab citizens spend almost all of their time in buildings or in cars where heavy duty air filters catch most of the pollution. It only affects the working poor who are outside making their deliveries, producing their oil, loading and unloading their private jets or building their opulent skyscrapers. These are sick nations.

[@pavelsmith2267]

I want to see the day to day video footage of the earths ozone light. I want to know if the world is on fire. -Commish

[@canmurthy]

Excellent report!

[@hablah5015]

The polluted country interm of oil gas flare...Kuwait

[@bobsthea]

cop 28 lead by oil and gas producers countries ? what resolutions we can expect from it ........

[@dubaitutors]

UAE / Dubai does not have any such thing as you are showing!! It is only during the seasonal dust storms that air quality goes down. Otherwise it is more cleaner than many south asian or asian nations!

[@ranadeep8318]

4:15 me mpd, 13:33, 20:04, 20:08 20:13 left curved mpd

[@solnahealthcare6343]

UAE is clean and safest place much cleaner than UK

[@user-rh6ru5oz2o]

Reality disagrees with you

[@rebekahTee-er3rz]

Didnt the crown prince die of heart attack at young age recently ??

[@solnahealthcare6343]

@@rebekahTee-er3rz So people don't die in UK..😂

[@celinen1234]

​@@rebekahTee-er3rzu speak like these are no young stroke cases in UK😂

[@ArgusAlf]

@@user-rh6ru5oz2oplease convince your reality 😂

[@Black_Sun_Dark_Star]

How hypocritical! When they were your allies, documentaries like this will never be made. So why now?

[@Issac-eg5ek]

I guess never, but that doesn't mean it's true

[@abdulla1783]

Dont forget the tole of nuclear uranium Shells that used from. British army when war 2003

[@yusufalqubaisi7481]

Yes UAE cause all the problems in the cosmics also not on earth only 😅

[@tonyrandall3146]

nice whataboutism little doodle.

[@ArgusAlf]

😂😂

[@MNn7777]

Psalm 69 : 22 is at work

[@Sam_Guevenne]

In the voice of Jeremy Clarkson: Oh no! well any way.

[@anyfriengenator]

I am planning to visit .. now I won’t visit

[@celinen1234]

Good That land doesn't need your shit😅

[@ArgusAlf]

Please don’t

[@sinanhadi8272]

The UAE generates 100% of its Onshore & offshore energy from sustainable resources, further, flared gas have been redirected for sales since the 70's, this is how ADNOC LNG was established, stop the hating do ur research, ask Google!

[@petrichor259]

Since when is oil produced by oil rigs a sustainable resource?

[@ArgusAlf]

@@petrichor259dude, read!

[@expand9487]

This program is paid to you by: QATAR. The only country BBC won't criticize.

[@malcolmodoy2651]

Global renewable energy conventions being led by Gulf countries that got rich out of oil 😅😅😅

[@BBCWorldService]

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[@Fakename-l9p]

Amazing propaganda BBC doing what it does best.

[@tonyh1760]

Do you wear your tin foil hat to bed or just during the day?

[@sari8438]

Why is this politically oriented? You can discuss the issues without giving any political judgment and views.

[@petrichor259]

Because the very same country is hosting Cop

[@sepidehmajd593]

That gulf has a name: PERSIAN gulf. seems someone forgot to write it.

[@ArgusAlf]

Arabian gulf ❤

[@abdurrahmanshuvo1725]

Free pelestine,,,

[@Striker-zw3lv]

There is no problem if developed western countries earned lots and lots of money through oil & gas sector but if Muslim majority countries choose the same path, then it became the matter of life & death and survival of humanity on entire planet.

[@santhoshlkumar6743]

gazan children you speak imperialist horror media😮

[@jdmmg4904]

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