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Cairn teams up with Statoil in Greenland


Cairn Energy is to team up with Norwegian group Statoil in their quest to look for oil off the coast of Greenland. Read the full story

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Cairn comes up empty-handed again


Cairn Energy has yet again failed to find oil or gas at its wells in Greenland. The Scottish exploration company’s shares fell one percent on the announcement that another two dry wells are to be plugged and abandoned. Read the full story

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Undercover Clash bassist jailed with Greenpeace activists


Former Clash bassist Paul Simonon has revealed that he spent two weeks in a Greenlandic jail earlier this year after he was arrested while working as an undercover activist with Greenpeace. Read the full story

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Tensions bubble as Cairn fails again


British oil company Cairn Energy has announced that it has again failed to strike black gold at its sixth controversial well off the coast of Greenland, angering environmentalists and worrying investors. Read the full story

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Cairn spill plans rubbished by expert


Greenpeace campaigners have ripped apart Cairn Energy’s recently-published oil spill response plans, claiming the drilling company has vastly underestimated the effect of a potential disaster off the coast of Greenland. Read the full story

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Greenland publishes Cairn spill plans


The Greenland government has published oil spill contingency plans for controversial drilling firm Cairn Energy after repeated calls for such action from environmental activists. Read the full story

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No oil found at Cairn’s Greenland well


British oil and gas explorer Cairn Energy has announced that it failed to find oil at one of its controversial wells off the coast of Greenland. Read the full story

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Cairn offices invaded by ‘polar bears’


Environmental activists dressed as polar bears have staged a sit-in at the Edinburgh offices of Cairn Energy in a protest against the company’s deep-water oil drilling activities off the coast of Greenland. Read the full story

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Greenpeace head arrested on Cairn rig


The global head of Greenpeace has been arrested after scaling an oil rig off the coast of Greenland, despite a recently imposed injunction. Read the full story

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Cairn wins Greenpeace injunction


Cairn Energy has secured an injunction which will make it illegal for environmental protesters to disrupt their oil and gas drilling operations off the coast of Greenland. Read the full story

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