Save the Arctic

The fragile Arctic is under threat from both climate change and oil drilling. As climate change melts the Arctic ice, oil companies are moving in to extract more of the fossil fuels that caused the melt in the first place. But above the Arctic circle, freezing temperatures, a narrow drilling window and a remote location mean that an oil spill would be almost impossible to deal with. It's a catastrophe waiting to happen. Greenpeace is working to halt climate change and to stop this new oil rush at the top of the world.

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BP has learned little from its experience in the Gulf of Mexico

BP's 'sadly naive' attitude

BP’s results for the last quarter of 2010 were published yesterday, with the firm admitting that the total cost of the Deepwater Horizon spill will be about £...
Posted by ben - 2 February, 2011 - 11:22
Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig

Arctic oil: even the money men can't do the maths

An interesting article was published recently in the German newspaper Der Spiegel, examining the costs of oil extraction in the Arctic. The region,...
Posted by ben - 27 January, 2011 - 12:57
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic

Who's going to defend the Arctic?

The masters at Marvel comics would struggle to find bad guys worse than these. Take two of the world’s biggest environmental villains – Russian Rosneft (...
Posted by jamess - 18 January, 2011 - 17:43
Chopped down Boreal forest near a tar sands mine in Alberta, Canada

Are oil investors using the wrong indicators of value?

We've released a report today with partners from Platform and Oil Change International about oil investment and increasingly risky sources of oil. Download the...
Posted by jamess - 17 January, 2011 - 14:06
Polar bear crossing the melting sea ice

2011: The Arctic vs Big Oil

Cairn Energy has fired the starting guns on its 2011 Arctic drilling operation. Their plan is to lug a couple of massive rigs up to the icy waters around...
Posted by jamess - 6 January, 2011 - 13:23

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