Synopsis

With humanity’s demand for energy increasing at an accelerating rate, the extraction industry pushes into Earth's most isolated corners to meet it. In Papua New Guinea, an underdeveloped Melanesian nation, Exxon Mobil of the United States has secured a $19 billion liquid natural gas project slated to begin production in late 2014. Vikram Gandhi journeys to Papua New Guinea to examine this development. Meanwhile, in Texas, Thomas Morton investigates the unfolding climate crisis, observing the loc