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Shell: "Something has gone wrong here"

Posted by bex — 18 August 2011 at 3:55pm - Comments
North Sea drilling platform Neddrill 7, co-chartered by Shell and Esso (1991)
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Klaus Radetzki
North Sea drilling platform Neddrill 7, co-chartered by Shell and Esso (1991)

Shell has apologised for the North Sea oil spill and for its own lack of transparency saying: "The fact is something has gone wrong here, so whatever risk assessment we made about the condition of these pipes has proven to be wrong."

Article tagged as: arctic, climate change, energy, go beyond oil, north sea, oil, oil spills, shell

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Shell oil spills - Greenpeace response

Last edited 16 August 2011 at 12:22pm
16 August, 2011

Responding to the latest developments in the North Sea, Greenpeace senior oil campaigner Vicky Wyatt said:

Article tagged as: cairn, cairn energy, climate change, energy, north sea, oil, oil spills, shell

Published: Cairn's oil spill response plan!

Posted by bex — 15 August 2011 at 6:31pm - Comments
In the event of an oil spill, turn immediately to page 13
All rights reserved. Credit: Cairn Energy
Page one of Cairn's spill response plan

You know that oil spill response plan that Cairn has been refusing to publish? The one that tens of thousands of you asked to see? The one we went to the Arctic and to Cairn's Edinburgh HQ to look for? The one they were so worried we'd found, they slapped a legal interdict on us to prevent us from publishing it?

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

Cairn Enery publishes oil spill response plan - Greenpeace response

Last edited 15 August 2011 at 6:18pm
15 August, 2011

Responding to the publication of Cairn Energy’s controversial Arctic oil spill response plan, which was at the centre of a campaign of direct action over the summer, Greenpeace oil campaigner Ben Ayliffe said:

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, cairn energy, climate change, energy, greenland, oil

Shell less than transparent about worst UK oil spill in a decade

Posted by bex — 15 August 2011 at 1:52pm - Comments
Shell/Esso's Kittiwake platform, North Sea
All rights reserved. Credit: Fred Dott / Greenpeace
Shell/Esso's Kittiwake platform, North Sea (1996)

As I write, Shell is working to contain an oil spill off the Aberdeenshire coast that is already, reportedly, the worst spill in UK waters for over a decade. 

Article tagged as: climate change, energy, esso, go beyond oil, north sea, oil, oil spills, shell

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