BP targets one of the world's last unspoilt wildernesses after deal

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By Mark Leftly and Chris Stevenson
Sunday, 16 January 2011


The Arctic is to become the "new environmental battleground", campaigners warned yesterday after BP announced plans to drill in one of the last great unspoilt wildernesses on earth.

Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have vowed to confront BP's American boss, Bob Dudley, over the agreement with the Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft to explore the Kara Sea, north of Siberia. The British energy firm was branded the world's "environmental villain number one" by Friends of the Earth (FoE) yesterday in response to its move to exploit potential oil reserves in the remote waters.

Environmentalists are dismayed that BP, which announced the deal on Friday night, has decided to set up rigs in an area of great biodiversity and treacherous weather conditions. The region is one of the few remaining havens left for a number of endangered species, including polar bears, walruses and beluga whales. And while the waters of the Kara Sea are relatively unexplored, they are known to house key fish species such as halibut, capelin and Arctic cod.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. BP--We cover the earth.

Literally.

[DCKit]

3. With Sludge and Corexit.

While I agree and would like to see the entire arctic left alone, this is going to happen, no matter what.

The point is, all these companies need to be regulated to hell and back and fined substantially (to the point that it really hurts, financially) when they screw up.

[TheKentuckian]

2. Why write a book when "FUCK!!!" will do as well

FUCK!!!