Blogposts tagged 'Arctic Drilling'

Lessons from the Elgin gas leak: why we must stop Shell's Arctic drilling

Posted by bex - 4 April 2012 at 1:51pm - 3 Comments
Arctic Fox
All rights reserved. Credit: Bernd Roemmelt / Greenpeace
Arctic foxes rely heavily on marine and coastal resources

Ten days after the leak began, Total is still struggling to contain the gas pouring from its North Sea Elgin platform, citing bad weather as the cause of the delays. Yet, in just 100 days’ time, Shell wants to start drilling for oil in the remote and extreme Arctic environment – claiming it has the technology and the tools to deal with any spill.

Here are six reasons why an oil spill in the Arctic would be so much harder to deal with than a gas leak in the North Sea, and so much more catastrophic:

Article tagged as: #savethearctic, arctic, arctic drilling, climate change, elgin, go beyond oil, north sea, oil, shell, total

What do you think we should be doing to save the Arctic?

Posted by bex - 13 February 2012 at 10:46am - 350 Comments
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Recreated on Arctic Sea Ice
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Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man recreated on Arctic sea ice by John Quigley

As I write, major oil companies like Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron are planning their moves into the Arctic to exploit its vast mineral resources. The five Arctic states are beginning the process of carving up the high north. Meanwhile, the ice keeps melting – we’ve now lost 75 per cent of Arctic sea ice in just 30 years. The global battle to protect the Arctic - from oil exploration, from industrialisation and from climate change – needs to be ambitious, bold and successful. So we’re asking you: what do you think we should we be doing to save the Arctic? 

Article tagged as: antartica, arctic, arctic drilling, climate change, climate impacts, take action

Conversations with Greenlanders (and non-conversations with oil companies)

Posted by Jon Burgwald - 23 January 2012 at 1:41pm - 1 Comment
Greenland's capital, Nuuk
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Will Rose
Greenland's capital, Nuuk

I’ve passed north of the polar circle on our trip visiting the west coast of Greenland. The temperature has dropped to -15C: snow is mounting outside my window and in the beautiful harbour city Sisimiut the fjord is filled with ice. At night time, the northern lights are dancing in the sky to the distant howling from the town’s sledge dogs. This wolf-like dog is only allowed north of the Arctic Circle. In a few days, I will be debating oil drilling at the local college – a college that focuses specifically on minerals and petroleum.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic drilling, cairn energy, greenland, oil

Risky business in the far north

Posted by ben - 3 August 2011 at 4:01pm - 8 Comments
Melting icebergs in the path of rigs in the Arctic, the latest oil frontier
All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace
Melting icebergs in the path of rigs in the Arctic, the latest oil frontier

Today Cairn Energy published the latest operational update for its risky oil drilling off Greenland and the news, at least for the wildcat oil company, was far from good.

For the second year in succession Cairn, has announced it has found no oil in the Arctic.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic drilling, cairn, cairn energy, climate change, go beyond oil, oil

The writing is on the wall as Kumi Naidoo is released from jail and deported

Posted by nick_gp - 21 June 2011 at 5:33pm - 2 Comments
Kumi Naidoo and Ulvar Arnkvaern on the Esperanza
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Kumi Naidoo and Ulvar Arnkvaern on the Esperanza, preparing to take action against the Leiv Eiriksson oil rig

Today Kumi Naidoo, the global head of Greenpeace, has been deported from Greenland after four days in jail for his part in a month of direct action on Cairn Energy's Arctic oil rig Leiv Eiriksson. 

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic drilling, cairn energy, go beyond oil, kumi naidoo, leiv eiriksson, oil
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