Licence to drill: Centrica awarded rights to explore Barents Sea | Business | The Guardian
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Centrica has walked into new controversy by obtaining a licence to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic.
The owner of British Gas, fresh from rows over annual domestic energy profits, has been awarded rights to explore in the Barents Sea off Norway.
Greenpeace said it was astonishing that Centrica would risk the enormous financial costs of a spill in such pristine waters when larger companies such as Shell had recently abandoned operations in the Alaskan Arctic.
