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: