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In Ibiza, the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, will be joined by a flotilla of boats in a seaborne protest against Cairn Energy’s oil prospecting plans. Ibiza and the Balearic islands are well known to many British people as one of the most beautiful and popular tourist destinations in the Mediterranean. But for local people it is their livelihoods that are under threat. 

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

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:

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: