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Politics, Pollution, Sep 22nd, 2010,
Scottish oil exploration and extraction firm Cairn Energy has struck oil in the Arctic only weeks after they’d found gas. Cairn Energy has been drilling off the coast of Greenland in waters up to 500 meters deep since only a couple of months ago. They have since faced opposition from environmental groups like the WWF and Greenpeace, the later of which successfully stopped their operations for a few hours by occupying an oil rig and suspending themselves from tents. Along with the Royal Bank of Scotland, Cairn were also one of the focuses of protest by activists during Edinburgh climate…
Tags: arctic, Cairn, energy, greenland, Greenpeace, oil
Climate Change, Politics, Pollution, Aug 27th, 2010,
Poor BP. After the Deepwater Horizon mishap they have been tarred by their own brush, so to speak. But lets face it, despite BP’s exceptionally bad safety record, it’s a bad brush all around; whether you’re a pelican in the Gulf of Mexico or a person living beside Alberta’s tar sands or in the Niger River Delta. Of course BP has the well-deserved worst rap at this point in time and so they won’t be able to share in the spoils of the next – and probably last – oil frontier: the pristine icy waters of the Arctic. The company…
Tags: arctic, BP, Cairn, Climate change, Deepwater, disaster, energy, greenland, Gulf, Horizon, Mexico, oil, tar sands
Climate Change, Politics, Pollution, Aug 25th, 2010,
The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is currently protesting deep sea oil drilling in the Arctic by UK firm Cairn Energy, the first company granted permission to drill in Greenland’s icy and environmentally sensitive waters. Cairn Energy is also one of the targets of the recent Climate Camp protests in Edinburgh, where the company is based. Greenpeace campaigner Leila Deen is quoted in an article in the Independent: To see a huge drilling rig in this beautiful and fragile environment is deeply shocking. The tragic oil disasters in the Gulf and in China this year clearly illustrate the need to go beyond…
Tags: arctic, Cairn, Danish, deep sea, denmark, drilling, energy, Esperanza, Greenpeace, Navy, oil, ship, vessel
Climate Change, Politics, Aug 23rd, 2010,
Climate change activists stepped up their game and held a rash of demonstrations in Edinburgh, Scotland today. Members of the activist group Climate Camp have been set up outside the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) global headquarters in Edinburgh since last week in order to protest the bank’s financing of the fossil fuel industry. But today has seen a sudden increase in protest activity, with separate actions also taking place at Forth Energy in Leith, Edinburgh and at Cairn Energy in the city’s financial district as well as at other RBS locations. From a report in The Herald Scotland: A…
Tags: activists, bank, Cairn, camp, change, climate, Edinburgh, energy, Forth, molasses, protest, RBS, Scotland, superglue
Pollution, Jul 12th, 2010,
Does deep sea oil drilling amongst Greenland’s icebergs sound a bit dicey to you? Probably any deep sea drilling does these days, what with the ongoing and unprecedented disaster in the Gulf of Mexico still dominating much of the news. So it’s no wonder that Greenpeace and the WWF are concerned about recent developments in the Arctic Ocean, where British oil exploration and extraction firm Cairn Energy has recently begun drilling in waters up to 500 meters deep. From an article in the Guardian: We think it is completely irresponsible for Cairn to proceed with these operations when the US,…
Tags: alley, arctic, British, Cairn, deep, drilling, greenland, Greenpeace, Gulf, iceberg, Mexico, oil, sea
Politics, Pollution, Jun 28th, 2010,
The long dark and gooey shadow of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is shining a gruesome light on offshore drilling, its toll on the environment and the true cost of oil. Yet the Gulf spill is also getting all the attention, while other environmental issues or injustices suffer from neglect or overshadowing. Bhopal activists have juxtaposed the attention being given to the spill against their unfortunate plight, for instance. Ironically, new remote – and potentially catastrophic – frontiers are being explored for oil at this very moment, yet this is receiving little attention from the mainstream…
Tags: arctic, Cairn, Canada, coast, Deepwater Horizon, drilling, energy, greenland, Gulf, ice, oil, spill
