Three hundred Brazilian loggers surrounded the Greenpeace ship MV Arctic Sunrise on the weekend, egged on by a local radio station that branded them "cowards" if they didn't chase Greenpeace out. The radio station is owned by the mayor of the local town of Porto de Moz, who also controls the largest logging operation in the region, and who offered free fuel and T-shirts to those who joined.
Struggling shale oil producer Southern Pacific Petroleum (SPP) stopped trading its shares on Friday in an attempt to raise A$10 million for its environmentally disastrous Stuart Project in Queensland.
Greenpeace campaigner Henry Tindipe and Western Province landowner Alex Ubie are in Japan to talk about the importance of ancient forests to Papua New Guinea’s forest peoples.
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO), which was considering expulsion of Greenpeace for "unsafe seamanship", has accepted Greenpeace's arguments and bowed to pressure from cyberactivists globally.
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO), a UN body supposed to promote cleaner seas and safer shipping, is meeting next week to consider silencing Greenpeace.
A government funded report released on October 31 has described the troubled Stuart Shale Oil Project in Queensland as "the best example of planning failure in Australia's recent industrial history".
There is a war going on in the Brazilian forest -– a war over land, over forest resources and over rapid profit at any price. A new Greenpeace report, ‘Pará: State of Conflict’ concludes that if there is no end to this war, we will lose hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of Amazon forest, the lives of many of its citizens and any remaining chance for a sustainable future in the region.
