There are some disturbing facts buried in the debris of ExxonMobil’s $19 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea – funded in part by a U.S.government loan. A landslide from an ExxonMobil quarry there killed 27 people in 2012 — a disaster ExxonMobil and the PNG government declared to be an act of God. New evidence, however, paints a very different picture — and also reveals the entire project is fueling civil unrest that may be approaching a boiling point.
When We Were Hela
- A film by Ian T.Shearn and Olivier Pollet
- Produced by The Gumption Group with support from the Mailman Foundation, the Nation Institute and the Fund for Investigative Journalism
- Written by Ian T. Shearn and Olivier Pollet
- Narration Ian T. Shearn
- Film editing Alexandre Berman
- Cinematography Olivier Pollet and Tormod Spencer Austad
- Academic Adviser Kristian Lasslett, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Ulster, Executive board of the International State Crime Initiative.
- Special Thanks The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism
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