Cairn's Leiv Eriksson rig off the coast of Greenland
Earlier this month, after more than 100,000 of you asked Cairn Energy to open up its Arctic oil spill response plan to public scrutiny, the government of Greenland stepped in and published it.
The verdict is now in. Veteran marine biologist and international oil spill expert Professor Richard Steiner has completed a review of the plan and, well, it's no wonder Cairn didn't want you to see it.
North Sea drilling platform Neddrill 7, co-chartered by Shell and Esso (1991)
Shell
has apologised for the
North Sea oil spill
and for its
own lack
of transparency saying: "The
fact is something has gone wrong here, so whatever risk assessment we
made about the condition of these pipes has proven to be wrong."
Shell is planning to drill for oil in the Arctic but does it have all the answers?
What does the ongoing North Sea oil spill say about Shell's plans to open up the Arctic, where an accident would be all but impossible to clean up? Especially now the existence of a suspected second leak at its Gannett Alpha platform has been revealed?
You
know that oil spill response plan that Cairn has been refusing to
publish? The one that tens of thousands of you asked to see? The one
we went to the Arctic and to Cairn's Edinburgh HQ to look for? The
one they were so worried we'd found, they slapped a legal interdict on us to prevent us from publishing it?
As I write, Shell is working to contain an oil spill off the Aberdeenshire coast that is already, reportedly, the worst spill in UK waters for over a decade.
Posted by bex -
29 June 2011 at 11:13am -
3 Comments
Last week, the oil industry was in London. The World
National Oil Companies Congress - sponsored by the likes of Chevron, Total and Statoil and addressed by BP's
Bob Dudley - "brings together the most senior executives from NOCs
[National Oil Companies]" to discuss, among other things, how to "overcome deepwater
challenges" and "benefit from shale and unconventional
opportunities".
Posted by bex -
23 June 2011 at 9:32am -
5 Comments
From deepwater drilling in the Arctic to the Tar Sands in Canada, oil companies are going to ever greater extremes to squeeze the last drops of oil from the Earth. And where oil companies pile in, environmental destruction follows.
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