Cairn Energy violates its own rules by acting in an area protected by UNESCO

 Translated by bing from the article here.

Cairn Energy is not clear in its code of ethics. 

If Monday they were almost half a hundred links to web pages that do not exist, which left out the fudge's environmental impact study presented to the Ministry of industry, yesterday the company embodied also by writing that is directed by a few professionals willing to breach its regulations. 

 On the website of the company, the Scots do not hesitate to "recognize the potential impact" that their «activities of exploration and production may have on the environment», so have developed what they call «an extensive set of policies and procedures that apply to all operations».

 In addition to undergo all environmental guidelines for national and international, also claim to have its 'own voluntary commitments», including «do not operate in the places UNESCO World Heritage».

Makers of the city of Ibiza have been those who have sounded the alarm, and have not hesitated to include something unusual in the allegations to the study of environmental impact of the company: the company's own standards.

Ibiza was declared a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1999, within those places that the organization called «mixed statements» by its cultural and natural value justified by the famous meadows of posidonia.

The Consell Insular de Ibiza sent last November a letter to the director of the Centre of the UNESCO World Heritage, Kishore Rao, showing its concern for oil exploration and urging him to act to stop the project. 

In the letter the Council explains that the meadows of posidonia oceanica, declared world heritage by the United Nations entity «could be subject to excessive risk», given the proximity of farms, just 35 miles, which could result in «pollutants harmful consequences for the natural environment».

If you do any drilling of the seabed, it would do so by rotating steel bits or diamond-tipped, implying the production of a series of mud or mud needed to facilitate the penetration into the substrate. It is a powerful blend of minerals and acid chemicals that are pumped well down to lubricate the drill head, up to the surface the detached fragments, and clog the drilled well to avoid that gas or oil escaping.

All this mixture of mud and chemicals, rich in heavy metals and toxic as cadmium, arsenic, copper, mercury, and lead, which is generated, is thrown into the sea after a process of purification rudimentary, turning it into a lethal cocktail for marine life within a radius of 500 meters of the well drilling rig, according to studies of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and the Cabildo de Lanzarote. 

The same studies confirm that MUDs are a cover over the seabed that would end with the meadow of posidonia and which, in some cases, could reach the beach sand in the form of spots.

Statistical data gathered by the researchers indicate that 76% of the pollution of the North Sea has its origin in the sludge of drillings and not extracted oil. 

Environmental management

This section extracted from the own rules of the company, the oil company stands out a whole series of questions that guide and govern its environmental policy, which includes in its section «Regulation», «adhering to the requirements of national and international environmental laws and industry guidelines» as well as their «own volunteer commitments,"as not to operate in the UNESCO World Heritage sites.