Sentences with phrase «energy drilling platform»
The efforts of Greenpeace to halt the drilling for oil, off of the Arctic coast of Greenland, suffered a double setback yesterday, when its protesters were evicted from the Cairn Energy drilling platform - and then the oil company slapped a lawsuit on Greenpeace, through the Dutch authorities.
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Though the morale of the environmental movement was far from upbeat in 2010 — remember, COP15 had just ended disappointingly, an energy bill had failed to gain ground in Congress, and the Deep Water Horizon drilling platform had begun leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico — there was some guarded optimism.
There have been some high - profile setbacks recently for the expansion of oil and gas drilling into the Arctic, from the 2012 wreck of Shell's Kulluk prospecting platform to President Obama's plan to bar energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
But by and large, the energy platform the GOP pushes is still drill, baby, drill, and generally anti-renewable energy.