BP wins first Greenland drilling concession despite chequered record

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http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/03/bp-wins-first-greenland-drilling-deepwater-horizon


BP said: 'We expect several years of careful planning before exploring this challenging and interesting region.' Photograph: Christophe Boisvieux/Corbis

BP has won permission to drill in the clear waters off Greenland, just three and a half years after abandoning similar plans to apply for a licence in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon blowout.

Greenpeace said it beggared belief that a company with BP's chequered track record would be allowed to work in one of the world's most fragile environments.

The British oil company confirmed last night that it had won a licence to work on the Amaroq concession off the coast of north-east Greenland – its first permit in or around that country.

The government in Nuuk boasted that the presence of big oil companies would accelerate the chances of striking oil but even some energy executives have warned of a potential disaster because of the difficulties of dealing with a spill around ice.

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1. There goes Greenland

Now to be changed to Blackland.