New investigation by Unearthed, reveals BP's (and others') dirty oil secret in Iraq. The company has been banking major profits from its operations in Iraq while not declaring “huge levels of emissions” from those fields. BP has failed to report massive flaring emissions from one of its projects in Iraq – equivalent to the annual emissions of over 970,000 petrol cars. BP jointly owns the Rumaila operating company but denies responsibility for its emissions. In impoverished Iraq, the vast majority of gas produced during oil production is flared, which exacerbates climate change. Unearthed identified that flaring emissions are totally unreported in the Rumaila and Zubair fields in Iraq, where BP and Eni hold stakes and make millions of dollars each year. Based on its ownership of the operating company, BP’s share of flaring for the Rumaila field was estimated to be equivalent to 4.52 million tonnes of CO2 in 2021 amounting to double the UK oil industry’s total flaring emissions for that year. “The oil giant is trying to appear ‘woke’ in the West while remaining dirty in the Global South – but this needs to be called out for what it is. It’s racism woven into corporate behaviour. Shareholders and voters must not stand for it a second longer". These operations have had a huge negative impact on the population living there and leaked information from the Iraqi health ministry blames pollution from the oil industry, as well as other sources, for a 20% rise in cancer in Basra between 2015 and 2018. A second leaked document, seen by the BBC, from the local government in Basra shows that cancer cases in the region are three times higher than figures published in the official nationwide cancer registry. https://projects.unearthed.greenpeace.org/big-oil-iraq/