Reacting to the news that the cowboy Scottish oil company Cairn Energy has abandoned a well having once again failed to find oil in Greenland, Greenpeace campaigner Ben Ayliffe said:
“Cairn Energy took a multi-million dollar gamble with the fragile Arctic environment and came up with nothing. This should be a lesson to other oil companies like Shell who are eyeing up new ventures among the ice bergs in the far North. What was already an unattractive investment now looks even riskier.”
Ayliffe added: