The Curse Of Oil

Episode Three

The Wilderness

As the demand for oil increases, fragile wilderness areas across the world are being opened up to oil exploration and furious debate.

This programme travels from the political lobbies of Washington DC to Alaska, where the pristine landscape of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could soon be the site of extensive oil development, and on to Alberta where production of 'The World's Worst Oil' is already underway.

Opposition from environmental groups is growing but so is the world's hunger for oil. We need the oil but how far will we go to get it?