Cairn Energy has announced that drilling has begun again at its oil exploration rig in the Arctic, after 18 Greenpeace activists breached a restricted area and suspended operations for 12 hours. Read the full story

Four Greenpeace protesters, who scaled an oil rig off the coast of Greenland and stopped it drilling for 40 hours, have been deported back to their home countries. The activists, who were arrested on September 2, forced Edinburgh-based oil company Cairn Energy to cease all operations for two days. Read the full story

Cairn Energy has confirmed that it has found gas off the western coast of Greenland. The Edinburgh-based oil and gas exploration company made the discovery in the Baffin Bay Basin, 175km from the island of Disko. Read the full story

The Cairn Energy oil exploration group has confirmed that it has sold a 51 percent stake in its Indian arm to help fund its project off the coast of Greenland. Just as offshore drilling becomes more controversial in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the Edinburgh-based group will return a “substantial sum” to investors and add to its two rigs already positioned 200km from Aasiaat, on Greenland’s west coast. Read the full story

Environmental groups have branded Greenland’s government “completely irresponsible” for giving the go-ahead for the drilling of two new oil wells west of Disko-Nuussuaq. Greenpeace has called the decision to hand out the licenses “indefensible” at a time when Norway, Canada and the US are freezing new permits. All three countries have declared moratoria on deepwater drilling after the colossal and ongoing environmental disaster caused by the explosion on a BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Read the full story