A Crude Mistake? Uganda's oil rush and the fight for climate justice | People & Power Documentary 

When Saudi and Russia reduce oil output, the same western countries complain. When Uganda decides to produce, they say "climate change." Africa needs independence.

The global south has the right to develop its own economies regardless of any challenges period

No locals are fighting this except for foreign interests. Uganda will prevail.

There's a documentary titled "Who benefits from oil and gas in Uganda?" on RU-vid. It gives another Ugandan angle on this topic. It's worth a watch.

So people will whine about colonization but then tell a former colonized country what it can and can't do with it's resources?

It gives me immense joy seeing westerncentric msm negatively criticise such projects in Africa. It means Uganda gov't is doing pretty well. Kudos M7. Never waver!

Uganda has the right to do what they need to do to develop their country

From the word go ,Uganda should have owned all the oil and allow no foreign companies to take advantage.

The best thing that African countries could do is to start solving their own problems by developing local capacity no-mater how costly and stop consulting western mafia who will always take advantage of their ignorance or greed.

Hold it Aljazeera, what exactly is the problem that warrants an entire program? Is it Uganda exploiting oil resource? A long pipeline? Exporting crude oil? The proposed hybrid of exporting crude as well as refining for local ,regional and international markets? Is it that Uganda , once Lush green is investing in some catastophic "venture". For what this " investigative journalism" is, honestly what is the problem? Let me get it clear, so you have beef with a 'lengthy runway'measuring 3.5km. You may not know Entebbe is exactly that long. So what is it? Nuanced numbers of displaced persons? I will tell you, Uganda needs energy for domestic , commercial and industrial take off. As the debate rages about fossil fuel, and weather vagaries ravage entire settlements, this developing country is very much of energy. With strategic management, the resource will be a Godsend. As youth employment soars, and the country grapples with a myriad of challenges, we need a second international airport, we need jobs, we need petroleum to save on imports and earn the much needed revenue. We should be worrying about misappropriation of the returns, opportunistic Ugandans who , like the good student, lazily want from such ventures, want again and want some more. We are wary of the poor record of France and it's companies, who milk a cow while starving it. We are sick and tired of imperialist tendencies who will hide behind such propaganda when in reality you are with your own hidden agenda. Africa is tired! Uganda is on the move, notwithstanding such condescence. Bravo Uganda, Bravo, HE, on this one, forget the rouble rousers!

We as africans we cry for development,economic growth and jobs but we fight projects that deliver all that we need,not saying its perfect but a positive step towards that goal,why people complaining?this project is good for uganda ,east Africa and africa Forget about energy transition because for more than 600 million africans energy transition means moving away from charcoal to gas and electricity by an mean necessary,give people access to electricity then talk of green energy or renewables but for now focus on development industrial and electricity generation

So all African countries cant combine resources to start our own Oil refinery company?

Let all the peoples of the world to develop and prosper. Prosperity is the end goal for all mankind

It looks to me like Uganda has quite sensible leadership. They will export some oil for cash and refine some to fuel their own trucks and motorbikes. Hopefully they can avoid polluting those pristine areas around Lake Albert.

I like how the thieves in suits all speak the same language of lies. Truly fascinating.

So people busking in oil money don't want others to benefit from the same. Foolishness.

If this is a sponsored documentary against oil drilling and refinery building in Uganda then I am afraid we can all see through it. Uganda has a right to use its resources however they see fit. Some people will be inconvenienced but overall Uganda will be in a better position.

Uganda 🇺🇬 is on the move and small people will get hurt so that the country will prosper 🙏👑

Im english living in hoima people are happy about the project they all got some good money and houses built for them. People all over the world use petroleum yet now its bad and ugandans cant extract their all. Bunyoro tribe are not known for farming and utilising their land its good for the area. These documentaries are completely biast the roads in the area are some of the best in uganda

kudus to Mr. Kamuntu the CFO, very confident

Uganda - just like all countries in the global south has a right to develop. This right is supreme to individual rights on trivial matters like access to grazing land and quarreling over the size of compensation given to individuals. We shall never surrender our collective right to development, just because of selfish interests of some misguided individuals. Those guys complaining about housing were living in grass-thatched shanty structures which can’t be described as proper dwelling places for humans. Aljazeera shd cover the lives these beneficiaries were living before being relocated and compare it with how they are living now. Otherwise, it remain as just another propaganda mouthpiece that’s hellbent on ensuring that Ugandans are left in perpetual poverty. Shame on you!!!

That's a very good development for the east Africa

As a Ugandan , I can proudly say that this video is misrepresenting the overall benefits and the guidelines along with the protocol set aside to prevent any harm or disruption to the environment and the natives. But I can accept that this in the long run might affect the overall global climate change goals

If at this stage they are experiencing challenges like this, they should brace up for more in the future, they should come and ask of what Nigerian citizens in the oil areas are facing without any compensation, or fake politicized compensations. The best for Uganda is to control their wealth by themselves else there will be future resource curse

Using ignorance people to fight development in our Country.

I’m actually inclined to believe that this East African community agenda is not just hot air but also hollow. Why should Uganda be borrowing money from the Global north countries to facilitate projects that can foster development within the community. What’s the rationale for the community then if they can’t fund a prosperous project like this one.

I am happy.....many countries around the world have developed by exploiting their resources..So they should not be restricted

The activist complaining about poverty is blind i think. I visited Hoima in our trip as a university this September, the roads, resettlement homes, airport and community income supporting projects that have been built there are enough to them out of poverty once the project is complete. Having good roads means they can access markets to trade and become rich. As a Ugandan and I think the activist was given money by foreigners to make noise just.

I'm a Kenyan and for you to think that the problem in Africa is caused by white people is stupid.The reason why Africa is the way it is is all on we the inhabitants;we deserve the hate we get as Africans until we eradicate stupidity and greed within ourselves and as you can see we are not committed to that so being slaves isn't and will never be an exception but a priority 😢😢😢

I aggree let Uganda be supported in this project. #it will benefit the region in long run . Let look further

Well done documentary

May Allah remove all problems trabules of yuganda people may Allah grant them good president may allah remove poverty of yuganda people Ameen ya rabul aalameen

That’s why Uganda needs a person like Ibrahim Traore!

many people from bulisa oil besin were not compensated. just forcibly internally displaced and many are now refugees living under terrible conditions in camps

When a nation state or leader uses it's natural resources to better the status of its people is development....🇿🇲💯💯💯❤️

Africans have had education for more than 50 years but can't drill our own fuel ⛽ i sometimes think we deserve the injustices we get

I don't buy this report. Yes, developing safety practices for the communities is mandatory, but don't stop. In my opinion, they don't want Africa to become the next superpower. Here in the U.S, us African Americans are road blocked in as many ways as they can think of when we strive for greatness. They even use our own people against us to support their agendas. I am in full support of Uganda to do everything in their power to be self sufficient as possible. Africa, African Americans, and all brown people in the world are hated on when striving to be successful. I am also proud of Uganda for being a spiritual country by rejecting the alphabet community demands with rights. All mighty Allah is with Uganda and the people of Uganda who don't back down to my country here in the U.S and other major developed countries.

But we as Ugandans do we benefit from oil mining

great content aljazeera

Uganda has the right to use its own resources

Even with all this suffering of the affected people, the 15% share that Uganda has is actually going straight to museveni's house hold, not in anyway will Ugandans benefit from it! Just like how they have been stealing taxpayers money to buy themselves houses in Europe and open business out there fir the last 40 years of the dictatorship and gun rule. If you meet the families of people who have been kidnapped and fed to the crocodiles. If you see the kids, wives, husbands, mothers of the people they have shot dead you will shed tears. If only you could know that even the people you have been interviewing in the new ministry of petroleum are museveni's family members. Do you know that museveni says he is not leaving power because he doesn't want to leave "his oil" in the hands of another person? So according to him the oil is not for Ugandans, it is his!!! What do you think of a president that borrows money for his own family benefits and the citizens of Uganda have to pay the loans? For the 40 years dictatorship, Uganda have accumulated a loan that even it's grand children will have to pay for! Do you know how many people are dieing everyday due to luck of medicine in the poor health facilities of Uganda? Are you aware that we lose close to 200 women in labor wards everyday due to poor health facilities! The dictators daughter was flew away to Germany to give birth to her baby, while other mother's are losing their lives because her father has been stealing taxpayers money and no work done to appreciate the citizens! As of now even a Ugandan baby that is still in her mother's womb has a loan of $1000 to pay, it is the money museveni has been embezzling for years. By the way this comment of the "truth" I have put here can bring my life to an end. In Uganda if you talk about the injustices you die, if you don't talk about it you still die. They have killed everything that looks as a threat to them including former friends! They have silenced many people with good sums of money! The economy has died, people are getting poorer everyday! Museveni believes the poor people are easy to lead so he has managed to keep check of poverty in Uganda. UGANDANS, WE NEED TO UNITE AND RIOT AND BRING THIS JUNTA DOWN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

The powerful giants have the potential to extract whatever they need from Africa easily. They know how to calculate every single move and how to manipulate the Leaders as well as the public in defending their interests. Most of the time they win Long term. I think Africa should start by finding out how prosperous oil rich countries like Saudi Arabia are handling the oil business, because I'm sure this powerful oil companies are not involved. We may be unknowingly claiming a very small portion of the huge profits generated by this valuable oil reserves.

An angry man never chooses what comes on his plate,he eats whatever is available. So as augandan anything that can improve our statusqou is welcome.

Uganda should get closer to the Chinese and the Arabs and forget about the Europeans.

I hear Kabale....Let Africa develop

In my view, a better compromise would be to continue with the project and to mitigate and remedy the adverse impacts instead of being defensive.

My country Uganda 😢😢😢

My Uganda, oh my dear Uganda

Gilbert might as well be working directly for Total.

Lets just be honest Humanity is determined to answer to the fermi paradox

There is no doubt that the oil and gas sector is transforming Uganda. The reality on ground is that the Project affected household’s quality of life has tremendously improved and household incomes enhanced because of the livelihood restoration programmes implemented.

Why let Europeans tell y’all anything on yo own resources, when has Uganda ever said anything bout big companies in Europe who contribute 90% of worlds pollution

Pray for Uganda

In uganda we are experiencing climate change in unimaginable manner, all because of global north,so now and now we urge them to change the course.

As a Canadian Ugandan based in Alberta I must say the oil field has had immense challenges over the last 6 years or more people lost their jobs et I don’t feel that Uganda is ready to invest in such a huge sector without showing the 5 year strategic plan

I really do pitty with the project-affected population, I hope that we will find an amicable, generally accepted solution. However, I find it non-sense upon stilt when the West start to question Africa's carbon contribution while we know countries in the West that produce a huge chunk of carbon in the environment in the name of "pollute and develop first". We need to identify a balance on how, as African countries, we can develop more responsibly with the resources we have within our borders, ensuring that we are not infringing on human rights and negatively inpacting our environment. Renewable energy is a technology under development and we can't wait for it for Africa to develop. There has to be some transition plans.

250,000 barrels is such a tiny amount of oil for the amount of damage to the environment. This same country will likely regret this decision especially considering the reserves will only last a couple decades. Going into that much debt for that little money will only lead to the leaders of the country stealing from the public. Seems like a horrid investment.

We know what you guys are up to. We have the right to do what we want as uganda

Did Total pay Al Jazeera to this doc? It's very clear that what President Museveni is doing is for the good of Ugandans. Uganda is a land locked country and having a refinery will be immensely beneficial for the country.

I think Aljzeera should mind there own business on Uganda 🇺🇬

Am Ugandan in Uganda and not a supporter of the current government but this Documentary has a lot of inaccuracies. I guess the USA wants to bring some "democracy" here. Pliz leave Uganda alone, we shall manage ourselves the way we see fit. For example 10:27 this man is speaking a language from a far area than that where the oil business is taking place!

I see people talk about how Uganda has the right to develop. Yes it does by all means. But the begging question is by whom? The global south whose neo colonialist agenda so called Globalisation has guaranteed that the global south never know what true development is. The west will never and has never developed Africa in its true form. Does a few infrastructure here and there mean development. Real development begins with industrialization driven by local interest and funding.

God bless M7.. may he live long.. Uganda is safe with him..

Uganda has great leadership, let Africa develop. Talk about the Arab world the only depends on Oil

Here's the true issue..... this oil 🛢 it's not in Uganda but in congo.... see the dilemma 😢.... Uganda has been used by the US to plunder the congo for over 30 years now, but all this will end one day..... God will remember the DR CONGO one day sooner or later 🙏🏽

The global north is the main benefitor of this and as for global south great debts and environmental degradation in form of pollution and diseases awaits you.

People who were staying in grassthatched houses were given a better organised homestead and Aljazeera says they are suffering. This world!

Am a Ugandan and Our village home was replaced by the road towards the oil centres, we recieved a handsome compesation and used it to buy bigger lands and more businesses. Sometimes things arent as they appear, i petty those that have lost their livelihoods but sometimes its down to peoples expectations vs true reality and value of their assets. All our neighboring residents were compesated well

This is lazy journalism;all the Peaple interviewed claiming to project persons have been exposed to be lying before ;it would b nice to look for over 6000 happy people who got all thier money & nice houses

Are these guys serious? You want Uganda not to exploit the resources it has, develop it's infrastructure, promote a new industry and widen it's economic base and improve the lives of it's citizens. So you can feel good and some natives who don't understand development can still live in abject poverty and drag the whole country behind. These guys who tell us, that we should continue to languish in poverty and misery while they can't stop crying when their governments try to cut off giving free stuff to their poor. I'll believe those people when they go live in a bush and earn a living as a peasant without financial help from their governments

These people behind this project they don't care about nature, people's lives. Neither anything...... Heartless...... People caring about their projects only. Wat a shame........ Human are no longer humans

Europe has many oil pipelines under the sea beds but Africa can't even build one. Aren't those major environmental risks also ? What a bunch of hypocrites. !

10:50 these people should atleast be greatful to their govt for giving them houses. Other govts don't do so

Ugandas extraction of oil by no way increases its burning of oil, (It doesn't add vehicles etc.) It reduces our dependence on the Arab world oil. Or to put it simply let us share the spoils

The people who are being shown here to be homeless willing chose to be paid cash but they misused there funds after. the ones who chose to be constructed for homes upon resettlement, got their 3 bedroom houses each with electricity and clean water which they had never seen before this project, they built them market centers , schools for them. what more does that activist need for poverty liberation.

Dangote's oil refinery in Nigeria had a cost of 20B USD. The EACOP pipeline is around 4B USD. It's just not an economically viable option to build a refinery in Uganda. So finding partners for a joint venture is a challenge.

When in Uganda mistake, when in quater, Saudi, Emirates blessing

The global south must build itself

Africa is the only continent that cant mine its own resources

Uganda will develop its resources with or without EU suport!!

Wow,thank you alzareera!.am Ugandan.thank you..

I'm pretty sure there is a patch of oil as well on the other side of Lake Albert in the DRC. Around Kasinji, south of Tchumia. Oil of Congo paid for that survey

So whats the best alternative

Let Uganda dig its oil and those who are politicizing this issue of compensation should stop it, they have been elevated economically by proper housing but they keep complaining, very stupid people

Viva Uganda the west aren't happy when African countries develop their nations

The oil money will only benefit less than 1 percent ugandans and those are the president of Uganda, his family, tribe, friends and supporters! So at the end of the day it's only suffering for the locals.

It’s none, total is problem that they’re poor, and they have so many kids

When you said big oil companies as good corporate citizens, you are doomed.

This reporting is sooo biased!! the global north never wants the south to develop, so the preservation of cassava gardens is more important than economic development of a region, the PAPs are being handled as humanely possible and some mistakes can be made, however highlighting the 'plight' of the PAPS more to the greater good is just being hypocritical

Change is not always as bad as it seems

Will Uganda will benefits or the foreign companies owning close to 80% through direct or indirect means like the u.s likes to do, they tax you a lot then sanction among many indirect ways of losing out😊

Nonsense, those against Uganda's development are they are they doing their part in their countries? Still manufacturing nuclear weapons and shouting about Uganda.. you will heal

No matter what our country first

If Uganda and Tanzania are going to receive only 15 % then t they should stop the drilling of the oil period

This is an African problem. We need African leaders who actually want to work for the people. We keep electing selfish people into power.

Al jaz owned by qatar one of the largest oil and gas producers

Thank God And Jesus Himself in Kenya 🇰🇪 we don't have this problem of "mineral resources"..it is a curse to developing nations.Love my Country 🇰🇪.

the truth is that no one is telling anyone what to do. but as uganda invest in oil they should read the signs of the time. the venture is slowlly getting absolite chances are that the wold will stop using the foasil fuel before Uganda break even

Greedy is the Enemy.....!

My goodness we afrcans are so screwed