The Patagonia region of Argentina is known for its stunning landscapes and  fruit production. But it harbors a dark secret. Home to the world’s fourth largest shale oil reserve and second largest shale gas reserve, the people living here have endured the impacts of fracking for years in almost-total obscurity, largely ignored by both Argentinian and global media. 

This is Fracking centers around the theme of climate colonialism, showing how oil companies, banned from fracking in their home countries in Europe, are instead exporting their destruction by fracking the Global South, in areas where environmental laws are more lax and the economic situation more dire.