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If we want to have healthy lives and a healthy planet we have to wean ourselves off oil. We are working to expose the lengths the oil industry is willing to go to squeeze the last barrels out of the ground and putting pressure on industry and governments to move beyond oil.

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Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord in Greenland

Cairn's Arctic misadventure ends in dismal failure

It was the biggest oil exploration campaign ever in the Arctic. It cost over a billion dollars. And Cairn has absolutely nothing to show for it. Today, at the...
Posted by bex - 30 November, 2011 - 14:03 -
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilli

We're challenging Cairn's gagging order: right to protest is as important as Cairn's right to run its business

I don't know if you read our Get Active blogs, written by our brilliant community of Greenpeace volunteers? It turns out that Cairn Energy do. Last week,...
Posted by bex - 29 November, 2011 - 12:09 -
Syncrude Oil Operations in Alberta Tar Sands

EXPOSED: Canada's secret tar sands lobbying of UK ministers

Documents obtained by The Cooperative and Friends of the Earth Europe through Freedom of Information requests and shared with Greenpeace reveal numerous high-...
Posted by petespeller - 27 November, 2011 - 01:29 -
Melting icebergs in the path of rigs in the Arctic, the latest oil frontier

Cairn polar bear found not guilty

Back in July, if you remember, fifty Greenpeace polar bears occupied Cairn Energy's Edinburgh headquarters, looking for the company's Arctic oil spill response...
Posted by bex - 24 November, 2011 - 12:10
Our international film competition launches on 17 September 2011

Last chance to vote in our Volkswagen film competition

Have you voted in our film competition yet? We challenged film makers to turn their cameras on Volkwsagen and expose its dirty lobbying. Volkswagen says it...
Posted by Richardg - 8 November, 2011 - 13:50 -

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