Four activists of the environmental organization Greenpeace is succeeded yesterday to climb to an oil platform in the Scottish drilling company Cairn Energy in the Arctic near Greenland and stop the test drilling was taking place there.
"Once the oil fields are depleted on the mainland gradually, the oil industry is now looking more and more intense both in the deep sea and in the Arctic to the precious commodity, "said Greenpeace energy spokesperson Jurrien Westerhof." However, there is no experience with offshore platforms in polar ice, and should there also be an accident, the consequences for nature would once more can be catastrophic, "said Westerhof
Leaking oil in the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean decompose hardly If it were so -.. as in the BP platform in the Gulf occurred in Mexico - a leak that is under the thick ice sheets in the Arctic Winter is virtually no way to curb oil pollution
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After the awarding of oil concessions to Cairn Energy companies now demand more access to the suspected oil off Greenland, including the two U.S. companies Exxon and Chevron. This now beginning oil boom in the Arctic, experts estimate, however, as a particularly damaging to the environment.
"In the Gulf of Mexico, we see even today how badly the oil industry, the disaster management under control," Greenpeace spokesman calls Jurrien Westerhof in memory. "A similar incident in the pack ice would be much more difficult to overcome, and for that reason alone there must be no licenses for drilling give in the Arctic, "says Westerhof
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Source: Ökonews, www.oekonews.at
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