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[Bullfax.com - Market News & Analysis] Greenpeace said Monday its activists had arrived in the Arctic on board one of its ships to pressure Britain's Cairn Energy to stop oil operations off Greenland's fragile coast.Cairn Energy is drilling two wells off the west coast of Greenland and plans to drill two more before the end of October, the watchdog said.If the British group's prospecting is successful, the Arctic "could be flooded with oil companies, all trying to operate in hazardous polar conditions," Greenpeace said in a statement.

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[Ah! Something To Read] Against drilling for oil in the Arctic seas off Greenland ...: Our campaigners have evaded a huge security operation and have scaled Cairn Energy’s controversial oil rig in the Arctic seas off Greenland, shutting it down – live updates below.

[ATTN:Magazine] ATTN:Magazine » Greenpeace Stage Arctic Action: The world’s leading Environmental NGO, Greenpeace, successfully halted deepwater oil drilling, by Cairn Energy, off the coast of Greenland earlier this morning.

[Breaking News, Weather, Business, Health, Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Travel, Science, Technology, Local, US World News- soalfs.com] Greenpeace blocks Greenland drilling (AP): Last week the Greenpeace ship Esperanza anchored near the rig as part of a campaign to protest deepwater oil drilling. Scotland-based Cairn Energy PLC announced at the time that it had discovered natural gas in the area but failed to find crude oil.

[Greenpeace UK RSS] Breaking: we've stopped Cairn's Arctic drilling | Greenpeace UK: The drilling rigs in Greenland are the most technically advanced in the world and have a flawless safety record - it was for this reason that they were secured by Cairn Energy and they were passed fit for use by the Greenland Government.

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[Greenpeace UK RSS] Blog from the fog | Greenpeace UK: The oil companies lobbying for drilling rights are mainly American, such as Cairn energy and the reason Greenland are so keen for these contracts is because their country was so badly hit by the financial collapse of an unpredictable and irresponsible economic system. Let's examine why drilling in the arctic is so dangerous a) we need to end dependency on oil as it is a non-renewable energy source b) failure to switch to sustainable energy results in huge world security issues as governments would be forced into conflict for every last drop of oil c) Oil is a fossil fuel, releasing many gigatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.

[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] Greenpeace warns of oil rush risk to Greenland | The Daily Caller ...: Although seismic data indicate that the area could have gas and oil reserves, Cairn’s finding doesn’t necessarily mean that oil has been found, said Erling Halfdan Stenby, a chemistry professor at Denmark’s Technical University.

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