Responding to the publication of Cairn Energy’s half yearly results and the news that the company still hasn’t discovered oil off Greenland, Greenpeace campaigner Vicky Wyatt said:
“Cairn are half way through this year’s Arctic drilling season but still have nothing to show for it. What was already an unattractive investment now looks even riskier.
“Shell’s North Sea spill showed that even in the supposedly ultra-safe North Sea oil companies can’t be trusted. Yet Cairn are happy to carry on regardless, gambling with the pristine Arctic for what may be three years worth of oil that is said to lie beneath the ice.
“Rather than dangerous drilling in the fragile Arctic, we should be extracting oil from car companies like Volkswagen by forcing them to make more efficient cars.”
