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

An oil spill could reach the shores of Greenland if there was a deepwater blowout near the Shetland Islands in the UK, according to a drilling firm’s disaster projections. Read the full story

The fifth in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: ‘New Orleans’, in which Chay revisits the city of his birth; still bearing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but now also facing the devastating Gulf Coast oil spill. Read the full story

A cruise ship registered in the Bahamas, the “Spirit of Adventure”, has committed the greatest blunder any tourist company could possibly imagine by spilling a huge amount of oil into Norway’s pristine Geiranger Fjord. Fire fighters and clean-up crews are working round the clock to contain the major oil spill in the scenic and popular tourist site. Read the full story

The second biggest oil spill in Norway occurred last week, reviving concerns of the possible expansion of oil and gas exploration in Norwegian waters.

The spill of around 25,000 barrels left an oil slick 5 kilometres wide and 10 kilometres long. Fortunately the accident was mostly contained by favourable winds.
The accident occurred as a tanker was loaded at energy group StatoilHydro’s Statfjord field.

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