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Exxon deal to drill in Russian Arctic - Greenpeace response

Last edited 31 August 2011 at 3:50pm
31 August, 2011

Commenting on Exxon’s deal to drill for oil in the Russian Arctic, Greenpeace senior polar campaigner Ben Ayliffe said:

“Exxon’s staggering Arctic investment is proof that the age of easy oil is coming to an end. The oil industry is being pushed into increasingly remote and marginal areas where costs and risks are commensurately higher, and all to chase the last remaining drops of a fuel that causes pollution, corruption and climate change.”

He continued:

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Arctic oil spill plans completely inadequate, say top experts

Last edited 31 August 2011 at 9:47am

Cairn took two years to release controversial documents

31 August, 2011

A British oil company has been accused of "breathtaking irresponsibility" after it admitted that its plans for cleaning upan Arctic oil spill included cutting out chunks of oiled ice and melting them in heated warehouses, relying on "limited portable lights" during the six months of the year in which the region is shrouded in darkness, and the suggestion that cod and salmon might swim out of the way of the oil. Any Arctic clean up operation would grind to a halt completely in the winter months.

Cairn Energy, who are spearheading the new Arctic oil rush, also admits that the sort of conventional spill response techniques used in the Gulf of Mexico - such as booms, skimmers and dispersants -will be significantly less effective, if not completely useless, in the harsh Arctic environment. (1)

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Review of Cairn Oil Spill Prevention and Contingency Plan (OSCP), Exploration Drilling Programme - 2011 Greenland

Last edited 31 August 2011 at 9:37am

A full review of Cairn Energy's Oil Spill Response Plan, published by the Greenland government in August 2011 by Professor Richard Steiner, University of Alaska (ret.), Oil Spill Consultant.

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31 August, 2011 - 10:00
Article tagged as: arctic, climate change, energy, go beyond oil, greenland, oil, oil drilling, oil spills, spill response plan

Verdict: Cairn's oil spill plan is outlandish, simplistic and "wholly inadequate"

Posted by bex — 31 August 2011 at 6:35am - Comments
Cairn's Leiv Eriksson rig off the coast of Greenland
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Cairn's Leiv Eriksson rig off the coast of Greenland

Earlier this month, after more than 100,000 of you asked Cairn Energy to open up its Arctic oil spill response plan to public scrutiny, the government of Greenland stepped in and published it.

The verdict is now in. Veteran marine biologist and international oil spill expert Professor Richard Steiner has completed a review of the plan and, well, it's no wonder Cairn didn't want you to see it.

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Briefing: Greenpeace analysis of the Cairn Oil Spill Prevention and Contingency Plan

Last edited 31 August 2011 at 9:26am

For the two years that Cairn has been operating in the Arctic, it has repeatedly refused to publish an oil spill response plan - the document that supposedly shows how the company would deal with a spill. Recently, after massive public and political pressure, the Greenland government - not Cairn - finally buckled and published the oil spill response plan.

This is a summary and analysis of Cairn's oil spill plan from independent expert Rick Steiner and Greenpeace Arctic campaigners.

Download the analysis:

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30 August, 2011 - 11:34
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"Financial crimes" leaflet: Cairn Energy

Last edited 23 August 2011 at 2:23pm

A mockup of a financial newspaper front page handed out by Greenpeace outside Cairn's press conference announcing Cairn's half yearly results for the first half of 2011.

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23 August, 2011 (All day)
Article tagged as: arctic, cairn energy, climate change, go beyond oil, oil

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VW film competition: classic Greenpeace films - Nestle

Posted by Richardg — 19 August 2011 at 11:15am - Comments

Picture the scene: you're revving up to enter our Volkswagen film competition, to expose its dirty lobbying against strong climate change laws. But you need some inspiration to get the creative juices flowing. So how about reviewing some of our classic films for campaigns gone by?

After last week's ancient forests epic, we’re sticking with the forests theme with Give The Orang-utan A Break.

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