Cairn Energy

A message to the oil industry: what spill response?

Posted by bex — 29 June 2011 at 12:13pm - Comments

Last week, the oil industry was in London. The World National Oil Companies Congress - sponsored by the likes of Chevron, Total and Statoil and addressed by BP's Bob Dudley - "brings together the most senior executives from NOCs [National Oil Companies]" to discuss, among other things, how to "overcome deepwater challenges" and "benefit from shale and unconventional opportunities".

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn energy, go beyond oil, oil, oil spills

Video: Paula bears down on reckless oil drillers Cairn Energy

Posted by jamie — 27 May 2011 at 5:26pm - Comments

We took Paula Bear down to Cairn Energy's HQ yesterday to block their entrance and demand their oil spill response plan.

We learned this week from confidential government documents that an oil spill in the Arctic would be all but impossible to clear up. Yet Cairn say they've got a spill response plan for the Arctic environment. Only thing is, they won't let anyone see it.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn energy, climate change, oil, paula bear

Paula Bear: Where's your spill response plan, Cairn?

Posted by jamess — 26 May 2011 at 10:35am - Comments
Paula blocking the entrance to Cairn's HQ
All rights reserved. Credit: Felix Clay / Greenpeace
Paula blocking the entrance to Cairn's HQ

This morning Paula Bear swung into action as a Greenpeace activist. While our ships are confronting Cairn Energy's oil rig in the Arctic, she’s blocking the entrance to the wildcat drillers' headquarters in Edinburgh.

Horrified that Cairn Energy are drilling for oil in the Arctic, Paula’s rage was tipped over the edge when she learned that Cairn won’t even make their oil spill response plan public.

Article tagged as: action, arctic, cairn, cairn energy, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, oil spill, paula bear

Government documents: Arctic oil spill all but impossible to clear up

Posted by jamess — 24 May 2011 at 9:55am - Comments
The Arctic Sunrise and the Esperanza intercept Cairn Energy's controversial Arct
All rights reserved. Credit: © Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
The Arctic Sunrise and the Esperanza intercept Cairn Energy's controversial Arctic rig

We obtained a series of documents [download part one and part two, both pdfs] today under a Freedom of Information request that show the government is saying privately what we've been saying publicly: an Arctic oil spill would be all but impossible to clear up.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, cairn energy, climate, climate change, oil drilling, oil spill

Destroying the Arctic for a three-year fix

Posted by jamess — 12 May 2011 at 1:52pm - Comments
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic
All rights reserved. Credit: Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic

How much oil lies under that Arctic ice? 90 billion barrels, according to the US Geological Survey.

But, how much really is that? If you ask an oil company, that’s a huge amount. With a barrel of oil over the hundred dollar mark, that's nine trillion dollars worth at today’s prices – if you could get at it all.

However, there’s a much more important number than the mind-boggling figures that the oil companies deal in.

Article tagged as: arctic, BP, cairn, cairn energy, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, oil drilling, shell
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