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The countless hours spent scouring legal documents, appearing in court and enduring what must have been trying exchanges with the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) by our awesome lawyers at Ecojustice has all paid off.
I can still remember the first Radiohead song that burrowed its way into my brain: “Creep,” their début single, released in 1992. Good times! The world was changing. The Berlin Wall had just been toppled. The Rio Earth Summit, with the...
What a difference a month can make. In early October we received notice that a large-scale iron fertilization project had been undertaken in the ocean off the coast of Haida Gwaii – apparently in international waters. At that point,...
Shedding light on a forgotten oil spill disaster in Russia, Greenpeace has today released a multimedia website documenting the impact of the pollution, warning for the potential of a similar disaster in the Arctic Ocean. ...
This week, people like you and me, all around the world, stood up to #tellshell – no. We don’t have as much money as Shell but we do have courage and creativity on our side and with a million people already signed up to our scroll to...
Shell is getting ready to start exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Alaska. This week, activists all around the world are joining together to save the Arctic and tell the company to halt its dangerous plans . If you’re on...
Stephanie Goodwin June 1, 2010 The BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico teaches us one thing clearly: oil spills, period. Oil and water do not mix. Greenpeace is working to stop Enbridge, an oil pipeline giant, from...
A recent National Geographic article detailed the interesting relationship between human conflict and fish populations. Historically, during periods of conflict, decreases in fishing activities led to sharp increases in predatory...
Sharks are jawsome, according to Hector the Blue shark, and I totally agree. Are you a friend of Hector ? If not, you should be. He needs all the friends he can get these days to help him show the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) that...
Last week the Vancouver Sun published an article exposing the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) plan to kill 7 endangered sea turtles this spring following 10 years of experiments into their diving depths. As I read on through...
Costco Canada has officially released an updated sustainable seafood policy and removed various Redlist species from sale in the U.S. and in Canada. This marks the last of Canada's major supermarket chains to commit to moving away from...
Riomare....a canned tuna brand seen in various supermarkets in Canada, has come out with their sustainability policy and has made some noteworthy progress toward greening their product lines. But as my colleague from Greenpeace Italy...
Despite the crisis facing our oceans , we often hear excuses from industry players: telling us that we do not need urgent changes to rescue our seas or proposing measures that sound good but when examined closely would fail to do much...
As another whaling season is underway in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, and while the Japanese whaling industry continues to disregard widespread opposition to the hunt, there are some signs that the tides are changing in Japan.
The delegations of various fishing nations might as well have been out surfing during last week's meetings of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) in Hawaii , because their positive contributions toward...
It is Halloween time. Genetically Engineered salmon is back! Enjoy this video... not GE salmon!
Wild salmon defenders are marching and rallying in Vancouver today as the Cohen Commission inquiry into the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye salmon begins its evidentiary hearings.The event marks the end of a 7 day journey down the...
In the frigid waters of Antarctica, two thousand feet down, swims the ugly toothfish, feeding on smaller fish and squid and being preyed up on by seals, whales and giant squid. A happy, functioning ecosystem, you would think. ...
Shell has spent 4.5 billion dollars buying its way into the Arctic, and the moment of truth has arrived. Right now, two giant drilling vessels are preparing to exploit melting sea ice to drill for more of the oil that is warming our...
On May 8, a book published along Enbridge's proposed tar sands pipeline route launched in New York City. The Enpipe Line: 70,000+ kilometres of poetry written in resistance to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal , was...
It seems that the Canadian government would rather go to court and waste taxpayers money than actually do their job these days, even when the Federal Court tells them they've been negligent. Last month, the Canadian government...
Speaking from within the headquarters of oil major Shell on Friday, the words of Greenpeace Netherlands executive director Sylvia Borren were clear: "My first move as the new CEO of Shell is simple and effective: no drilling for oil...
Oscar winning actor Jude Law and British rock band Radiohead have joined forces with Greenpeace to produce a film featuring a highly realistic polar bear on London’s streets. The film is part of the Save the Arctic campaign, which...
The time is now. With the northern summer as the backdrop, Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise and the Esperanza cast off this week and set sail for the Arctic. Leaving a little later than the Shell boats and carrying a very diffent type...
The Musqueam First Nation have maintained a 24-hour watch over the Marpole Midden village site for the past 26 days to stop further excavation and removal of ancestral remains. Greenpeace has been down to the Vancouver condo...
Today, more than 50 national, provincial and community groups sent an open letter to Premier McGuinty asking him to remove contentious changes to environmental laws from Ontario’s budget bill. The groups believe that any changes to...
Last week I was in Bella Bella to witness the Joint Panel Review (JRP) hearings for the Enbridge Gateway Pipeline. The Heiltsuk First Nation is one of the many communities that would be impacted by this project. As such the...
There are a few things I know for sure. The first is that I freeze when I panic. The second is there are indeed special places in the world that inspire movies like Avatar and Lord of the Rings. And the third, my friend Caitlyn...
Last week in Regina , Canada's premiers blew a valuable opportunity to confront the climate crisis head on. Rick Smith from Environmental Defense did a great job of outlining our hopes for the Council of the Federation: Mainly...
The recent news of the imminent spill of 8 billion litres of untreated sewage water into the St. Lawrence River in Montreal has sparked outrage from concerned citizens. After an initial announcement of a moratorium, Montreal’s Mayor,...
It seems to me that Premier McGuinty’s threat to call a summer election has little to do with balancing the budget and more to do with keeping the public debate away from the major proposed changes to our environmental protection laws...
Public awareness continues to grow about the damage the Ontario’s government’s budget bill (Bill 55) will inflict on the environment. MPP Jonah Schein (NDP, Davenport) spoke out on the floor of the Ontario Legislature on Monday...
Environment Minister Peter Kent needs to wake up and smell the smog. While the government drags its feet organizing, reviewing, editing, and finalizing it’s legally required national caribou recovery strategy, industrial expansion in...
Last week MacLeans magazine started to do some digging on the “Eco-tainer” cups, which, unfortunately, is Canada’s only compostable paper coffee cup. The article asked the question of whether these cups are actually green, and found...
Compilation featuring the emotional moments experienced by those members of the Arctic 30 who have this week been granted bail and released from prison in Saint Petersburg.
On October 16, 2013, Greenpeace activists block the docking facility at Kinder Morgan's pipeline terminal in Metro Vancouver, where tankers are loaded with tar sands oil. The Harper government is supporting Kinder Morgan's plan to build a new...
One of the activists taking part in the protest at Kinder Morgan tar sands facility on October 16th, 2013 explains her motivation to take non-violent direct action and why she believes in peaceful protest.
On February 13th, 2014, Greenpeace Canada partnered with Stuart Knight Productions to host a historic and memorable evening. Inspired by the courage of the Arctic 30, ten celebrated Canadians took the stage for ten minutes each to share...
Yesterday was World Sea Turtle Day, and with World Ocean’s Day come and gone, taking a day to celebrate these ancient dwellers of our global oceans creates another opportunity to examine what threats are putting these and other...
Christine Leclerc of Vancouver was one of 18 activists who braved freezing seas to scale the huge legs of the Cairn Energy oil-drilling rig the Leiv Eiriksson at 5 a.m. Greenland time. The action occurred about 180 kilometres off the...
Last Friday a coalition of organisations including the Washington Biotech Action Council, Ecoropa, Women in Europe for a Common Future, EcoNexus and Greenpeace organized a talk on GE fish during lunchtime at the Biosafety Protocol...
I delivered yesterday a strong message on behalf of Greenpeace to the 160+ countries gathered in Nagoya (Japan) for the Biosafety Protocol: Ban GE fish ! Here’s an edited extract of Greenpeace's call: ‘ It is clear that the...
Few hours away from the official opening of the UN meeting of the Protocol on Biosafety that will take place in Nagoya (Japon) between 11 and 15 october, some 2,000 colourful demonstrators ( diaporama ; disporama2 ) took to the...
We all have questions about the BP Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, not least of which being 'what can I do to help?' Here are a few answers. How will the spill harm people and wildlife in the area, and for how long...
In the freezing seas off Greenland, activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza are taking direct action against oil drilling in the Arctic. Luke and Sigurd are now hanging from the underside of Cairn Energy’s giant oil rig in...
As our way of marking the anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf, Greenpeace has put on-line a searchable database of over 30,000 documents related to the Macondo disaster. Now we need your help to tell us what we’ve got. In...
Today, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced that they are ending this year’s Antarctic whaling season early, and have called the fleet back to port. This is fantastic news, and not a moment too soon.
A new no-take zone bans purse seine fishing from 4.5 million km2 over five areas of international waters of the Pacific New Year’s Day is often a day of resolutions, of sleeping in and of new beginnings. Well, for tuna under...
You know that can of tuna you drop into your supermarket basket every week? Ever wonder what’s in it? Probably not but you might be thinking twice from now on, once you see the results of a recent Greenpeace commissioned study. Much...
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