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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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Don't bet on coal and oil growth

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | January 24, 2014

A mind-boggling sum of about $800  for each person on the planet  is invested into fossil fuel companies through the global capital markets alone. That’s roughly 10% of the total capital invested in listed companies. The amount of...

Amnesty for the Arctic 30

Feature story | December 18, 2013 at 11:20

The Greenpeace activists who spent two months in jail after a peaceful protest in the Arctic have expressed relief after the Russian parliament voted to grant them amnesty. But they also declared: "There is no amnesty for the Arctic."

Government hypocrisy risks pushing climate past point of no return

Blog entry by Aaron Gray-Block | January 23, 2013

Devastating storms and lives lost, houses destroyed, sweltering heat waves, menacing bushfires, plunging winter temperatures, droughts, floods and even snowstorms in the desert: this is the reality of our weather – it's not a forecast...

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...

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

Publication | September 6, 2011 at 10:14

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...

The Verdict on Cairn's Oil Spill Plan

Feature story | September 6, 2011 at 10:09

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

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...

A Few Questions for Shell

Blog entry by Ben Ayliffe | August 18, 2011

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...

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...

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...

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