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More than one million Ontarians call for an end to unwanted logging in Grassy Narrows

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt, Forest Campaigner | August 22, 2013

More than one million Ontarians call for an end to unwanted logging in Grassy Narrows Premier Wynne does not respond to request for dialogue with civil society groups Toronto - Organizations representing more than one...

Greenpeace supports Ontario move to allow six storey wood buildings

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt, Forest Campaigner | May 5, 2014

The government of Ontario is proposing to amend the province’s building code to permit the construction of up to six storey wood-frame buildings . Greenpeace Canada supports this sensible step to stimulate a stable and diversified...

Trudeau’s pipeline paradox

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | September 28, 2016

Pity Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who must soon choose which promise he will break : his pledges to fight pursue reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples and to fight climate change, or his promise to get a tar sands pipeline...

Mining without consent of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake?

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt, Head of Forest Campaign | November 3, 2016

On October 10 th , and as a part of the national Indigenous Day of Action, members of the  Algonquins of Barriere Lake took to Highway 117  to raise awareness of a new threat to their traditional territories – a prospective mine within...

Q & A: Why campaign against TD Bank over tar sands pipelines?

Blog entry by Greenpeace Canada End of Oil Team | September 22, 2017

Greenpeace Canada is campaigning against TD Bank for its financing of four tar sands pipelines. We are calling on TD to refuse to participate or underwrite any financial agreements or loans which facilitate the construction or...

Pipeline builder Kinder Morgan prefers to beg forgiveness rather than ask for permission

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | November 2, 2017 1 comment

The company behind the controversial Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline is warning that the project needs to be exempted from rules governing environmental permits or it might not get built . In September, the company took an...

Ring of Fire Minister not listening to First Nations

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt | July 21, 2012

I recently had the privilege of attending a meeting with the Minister of Northern Development and Mines as an observer with Neskantaga First Nation . You can follow Neskantaga’s campaign to protect their rights here . Talks were...

Free, prior and informed consent for certainty, prosperity.

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt | April 13, 2012

A lot of effort has been made, by Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver and others , to portray the principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) for industrial development in traditional Indigenous territories as somehow...

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