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UPDATE - 15 AUG: Finally, after all your petitioning and emailing, Cairn's Oil Spill Response Plan has been published! It was released late this afternoon, so we haven't had time to read and analyse the whole document yet -- but we'll let you know when we have. Find out more on this here.

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Gasoline Pipeline Explosion in Nairobi Leaves at Least 75 Dead

Blog entry by Monica Davies | September 13, 2011

Kenyan Energy Minister claims the accident is one of the worst accidents ever in Kenya’s energy sector. On Monday, a leaking gasoline pipeline in an industrial area of Kenya's capital exploded, turning part of a slum into an... Read more >

Briefing: Greenpeace analysis of the Cairn Oil Spill Prevention and Contingency Plan

Publication | September 6, 2011 at 9:14

For the two years that Cairn has been operating in the Arctic, it has repeatedly refused to publish an oil spill response plan - the document that supposedly shows how the company would deal with a spill. Recently, after massive public and... Read more >

The Verdict on Cairn's Oil Spill Plan

Feature story | September 6, 2011 at 9:09

Finally Cairn's Oil Spill Response Plan was published recently. We've gone through the document thoroughly and have made some startling findings. Read more >

Shell: "Something has gone wrong here"

Blog entry by bex | August 19, 2011

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... Read more >

A Few Questions for Shell

Blog entry by Ben Ayliffe | August 18, 2011 2 comments

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? Personally, it seems to me that if Shell can’t get it right in the supposedly... Read more >

Published: Cairn's Oil Spill Response Plan!

Blog entry by Jamie | August 16, 2011

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... Read more >

Cairn Obtains Legal Interdict: ‘Twitter Ban’ and 'Gagging Order' for Greenpeace

Blog entry by bex | July 20, 2011

In its latest move to cover up the truth about its Arctic drilling, Cairn Energy has obtained an extraordinary, wide-ranging legal interdict (injunction) against us, gagging us from posting Tweets and Facebook updates containing photos... Read more >

BREAKING: Polar Bears occupy Cairn's HQ

Blog entry by bex | July 18, 2011 3 comments

Update: Cairn gets legal 'gagging order', requiring some Facebook & Twitter updates from our polar bear action be removed. A few moments ago, fifty polar bears entered Cairn Energy's Edinburgh headquarters and occupied it. Their... Read more >

Kumi Arrives Back From Greenland

Blog entry by mbaillie | June 22, 2011

Here's a short clip of Kumi Naidoo arrving back from Greenland where he has been in jail for the last 5 days. Kumi climbed the Arctic oil rig, the Leiv Eriksson, to demand they stop drilling, and to deliver 50,000 signatures of people... Read more >