Life at 50°C: Exposing the toxic record of Colombia's oil giant | BBC World Service Documentaries

#BBCEye investigates how Colombia’s biggest oil company Ecopetrol is polluting rivers and wetlands, affecting fishing communities and endangered animals. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM Data leaked by a former employee reveals more than 800 records of these oil-polluted sites from 1989 to 2018, and indicates the company had failed to report about a fifth of them. The BBC's World Service has also obtained figures showing the company has spilled oil hundreds of times in the past five years. Ecopetrol says it complies fully with Colombian law and has industry-leading practices on sustainability. 00:00 Life at 50°C: Petroleum, Pollution and Paramilitaries 04:09 “Isn’t this illegal?” 07:06 A “massacre” of animals in the river 11:06 Ecopetrol’s leaked oil pollution data 14:15 “This land, for me, is my life” 19:10 Ex-CEO hits back 23:52 Whistleblower gets anonymous threats 27:07 Illegal methane emissions 31:12 Water pollution 33:15 Diseases among newborn babies 39:05 Guerrillas, paramilitaries, and the oil industry 43:40 Threats to environmental activists 48:09 Dangers from private security companies 52:08 Future of oil industry and climate in Colombia 54:52 River Magdalena gives me life *** This film is part of a new season of the #BBCWorldService series Life at 50°C: Water Crisis, which investigates the most severe aspects of climate change and environmental damage in some of the hottest parts of the world where demand for water is already high – South Sudan, Syria, Colombia and Australia. 🎞️ Catch up on the whole series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz_B0PFGIn4eKEyYKj5-Sbg4O0A_WJX4g 🎥 Watch this film in SPANISH by clicking on Settings ➡ Subtitles/CC ➡Spanish 🎥 Mira este Documental en ESPAÑOL 🇨🇴 haciendo clic en Configuración ➡ Subtítulos/CC ➡Español ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽 https://www.instagram.com/bbcworldservice Twitter 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice Facebook 👉🏽 https://facebook.com/bbcworldservice BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #Biodiversity #ClimateChange #WaterCrisis #BBCLifeAt50C #Environment #Water #Rivers #Colombia #Documentary #COP29 #WorldService #InvestigativeJournalism