Investing in green energy is more affordable than spending more money on nuclear power. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis published by Greenpeace and the Pembina Institute.

As the Ontario government prepares to announce a provincial budget that will likely see significant cuts to services, Greenpeace and other environmental groups are challenging the federal review of Premier McGuinty’s plan to build new nuclear...

Greenpeace today condemned the Harper government for giving asmuch as$750 million dollars to nuclear energy and carbon capture and storageinstead of investing those funds in the green economy Canada needs forthe future.

Greenpeace Canada activists used a blimp at the uranium processing facility of General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GE Hitachi) in downtown Toronto this morning to mark the upcoming anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.

Solar panels can deliver clean power where we need it, when we need it most, and will soon be cost-competitive with electricity from the grid. That’s the conclusion of the Solar Generation report released in India by the European Photovoltaic...

Tonight Greenpeace hosts a wine and cheese reception featuring the work of award winning photographer Robert Knoth to remember Chernobyl’s 25th Anniversary and to rethink nuclear energy during the ongoing Fukushima crisis.

Hundreds of thousands of victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan are still denied fair compensation from a governmental regulatory system that allows the nuclear industry to evade its responsibilities and forces the public to pay for...

Courtice, Ontario — Greenpeace activists today shut down environmental assessment hearings on a proposal to build new reactors at Darlington in response to the Joint Review Panel’s refusal to suspend the hearings until lessons are learned from...

Toronto — Greenpeace activists are occupying Energy Minister Brad Duguid’s offices right now to highlight the McGuinty government’s repeated refusal to consider safer and cheaper green alternatives to building new reactors at the Darlington...

Greenpeace believes that nuclear reactors are a dangerous power source that will always be vulnerable to the deadly combination of human errors, design failures and natural disasters.

(Toronto, Canada) – A Greenpeace report shows that newly designed reactors Ontario proposes to build at the Darlington nuclear facility would produce long-lived waste two to 158 times more radioactive than waste from existing reactors in Canada,...

Greenpeace and the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) today called on Premier Dalton McGuinty, PC leader Tim Hudak, and NDP leader Andrea Horwath to reject building new nuclear reactors in light of the tragic disaster unfolding in...

Greenpeace released a weather balloon today at the hearings on the future of the Darlington reactors to show that if there were a major nuclear accident at either of Toronto’s nuclear stations the radioactive fallout could blow onto the GTA,...

(Tokyo)– Greenpeace today criticised TEPCO and the Japanese government for continuing to underplay the seriousness of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, after TEPCO yesterday admitted (1) that a partial meltdown of the core of reactor 1 at...

Tokyo – Greenpeace International Executive Director Dr. Kumi Naidoo has released information on contaminated soil from a Fukushima playground showing that readings seven times normal background levels could still be found at a kindergarten,...

Environmental groups have asked a federal court to stop government agencies from approving construction of new nuclear reactors at Darlington until an environmental assessment is fully completed and shows the project won’t negatively impact the...

The Fukushima nuclear disaster was not caused by a freak act of nature but rather by failures of the Japanese government, its nuclear safety watchdog and the nuclear industry, says a new report released today by Greenpeace International. This...

In light of the Fukushima disaster, re-building the Darlington nuclear station should not be approved before the federal and provincial governments have publicly reviewed the adequacy of Ontario's nuclear emergency plans, say environmental...

On March 17, 2008, Bruce Cox sent an open letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty urging him to correct the injustice handed down to Robert Lovelace and others protesting uranium exploration on their traditional lands. Lovelace, currently serving a...