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Message to Obama: Climate leaders don’t buy tar sands

Press release | 15 September, 2009 at 19:32

Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada - 15 September 2009 - As Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper prepares to meet US President Barack Obama in Washington, 25 Greenpeace activists from Canada, the US, and France have blocked a mining operation at...

The good, the bad, and the tar sands

Blog entry by laurak | 17 February, 2010 5 comments

The party in Northern Alberta is over - (it wasn't much of a party to begin with - unless you like the smell of steaming bitumen and the sound of cannons) - and there must be some long, sad faces in the boardrooms of the tar sands...

No redemption

Blog entry by laurak | 29 September, 2009 6 comments

During our action in the tar sands of northern Alberta, Canada last week we were running a Twitter and comment feed on the Stop the Tar Sands landing page - so that while people watched the live video feed of our activists they...

Nuclear News: Iran to begin operation of 1st nuclear power plant

Blog entry by Justin | 23 February, 2009

Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: AP: Iran to begin operation of 1st nuclear power plant ‘Iran's first nuclear plant will begin long-delayed pilot operations on Wednesday, the state atomic energy agency said. A...

Indymedia: 16 000 Gather to protest against Castor

Blog entry by Justin | 10 November, 2008

8 November - A crowd of 16 000 people demonstrated against the Castor transport in Gorleben today, marching through the town and eventually settling just outside of it, near to the gates of the "Zwischenlager" - the temporary nuclear...

Greenpeace activist updates direct from the tar sands

Blog entry by laurak | 15 September, 2009 56 comments

Update from Mike Hudema - Climate Campaigner with Greenpeace Canada - 7am local time It's a few hours before we enter the tar sands. The tar sands are the largest industrial, capital and energy project on the planet but most...

Line in the tar sands, a bird’s eye view of the world's largest industrial development

Blog entry by laurak | 15 September, 2009 5 comments

By Mike Townsley, Head of News - Greenpeace International “I have seen the future and it is murder,” lamented Leonard Cohen on my iPod as I arrived in Fort McMurray airport, Alberta, Canada. The oil man’s airport of choice for access...

Spare a dollar for Vermont Yankee?

Blog entry by Justin | 31 October, 2008

Like the rest of us Vermont Yankee is suffering in the current economic climate : The owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant says it will have to wait almost 60 years before it has enough money to decommission the plant. Faced...

Nuclear News for October 31st 2008

Blog entry by Justin | 31 October, 2008

Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: World Nuclear News: Research base for new Chinese nuclear power ‘A new research and development office opened in Beijing this week, focused on the task of...

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