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Local communities are once again on the front lines of efforts to keep our west coast pristine. Save Howe Sound is a local group of citizens who keep an eye on the world class beauty Howe Sound. They are promoting awareness of the...
The next big step in the fight to save the Arctic is happening right now. Greenpeace US activists have suspended themselves from St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon to block a Shell Oil vessel from leaving port for Alaskan waters.
On March 29 ExxonMobil, the most profitable company in the world, spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tar sands crude oil from an underground pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas. The pipeline was carrying tar sands oil from Canada...
Over 25,000 citizens marched in Quebec City on April 11, 2015 calling on Premiers and the Federal Government to Act on Climate. Photo credit: © Greenpeace/Robert van Waarden
Shot primarily from a helicopter, filmmaker Peter Mettler's "Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands" offers an unparalleled view of the world's largest industrial, capital and energy project.
This year’s 4 th Annual Healing Walk was an amazing success. It brought people together from all walks of life and diverse backgrounds to walk in prayer for the Healing of the land and its people. Protecting the Sacred One...
***I ndividuals wishing to donate to the Red Cross can call 1-800-418-1111 or go to the Red Cross website at www.redcross.ca or text REDCROSSQC to 30333 to make a $5 donation.*** As the tragedy in the Quebec community of Lac...
There are some things in life you think are permanent. For me lakes are on that list. While lakes will move somewhat over time they are often pillars in our history. I remember the lake I went to almost every summer as a child, the one...
42 years ago a bunch of brave folks in Vancouver got together to bear witness to nuclear testing the U.S. was doing in Alaska. Those passionate people decided they needed a ship to make their point – that atmospheric nuclear tests were...
Major customers of Boreal logging companies sent Greenpeace a letter today. Actually, they sent it to all of us involved in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA), 9 environmental organizations and 19 forest companies operating...
Documents obtained by Greenpeace (using Alberta’s Freedom of Information Act) show that the oil industry has been lobbying for the weakest possible greenhouse gas regulation for their sector. Oil companies have spent millions to...
Twenty members of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) are jointly responsible for almost one sixth of all CO2 and methane emitted by human activity since the dawn of the industrial age. And the fact that we now know...
The latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was released on Sunday. The report, perhaps the most hopeful of IPCC reports to date, had one clear message – we can save the planet but only if we start acting now. ...
This has been a pretty bad week for whales and unless something is done it’s going to get a lot worse. In the Harper government’s relentless pursuit to push tar sands pipelines through to Canada’s east and west coasts, the...
Stephen Harper has chosen to approve Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline, despite the overwhelming opposition of the people of British Columbia, over 130 First Nations and the B.C. government itself. Throwing...
Greenpeace Canada is pleased to announce that Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands will make its North American debut at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival this September.
Environmental groups on both sides of the border are celebrating today, after a provision of the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 that curtails the import of energy intensive fuels like the tar sands was left intact.
Bureaucrats don’t get a lot of thanks, but I’d like to extend mine to those true public servants who blew the whistle on document shredding at Alberta’s environment ministry. While watching Alberta’s election results come in, I...
In response to concerns raised by Greenpeace, pipeline giant Kinder Morgan has revised the legal document underlying the $1.75 billion share offering that would finance its proposed new tar sands pipeline. Earlier this month, ...
Never did I think that I'd be raising my fist in the air to protest the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline in Washington DC, but on February 17 2013, I did just that. On February 15th, I and 9 other Torontonians took off to support the...
For a vulnerable country like Tuvalu, its an act of sabotage on our future. —Ian Fry, Tuvalu lead negotiator Yesterday I commented that the Harper government pulling out of Kyoto is essentially a death sentence on vulnerable...
View of smoke plumes emitted from the Syncrude upgrader plant north of Fort McMurray. Credit: Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace Documents obtained by The Cooperative and Friends of the Earth Europe through Freedom of...
The International Stop the Tar Sands Day (ISTSDay) network has inspired people around the world to organize, educate and mobilize civil society to stop Alberta’s destructive Tar Sands industry, every year on June 18th. Tar Sands...
A new energy policy and tougher restrictions on carbon emissions in the U.S. could spell big changes in the Alberta tar sands as President-Elect Obama transitions the country away from what he calls "dirty, dwindling and dangerously expensive...
9 October 2009 (Edmonton)—While Greenpeace activists took direct action yesterday at a French energy giant Total S.A. refinery in France to expose the climate crime of the tar sands, Greenpeace activists from Canada were busy altering two Total...
Edmonton, Canada — A report commissioned by Greenpeace Canada analyses the significant role dirty oil from the Alberta tar sands plays in the global climate crisis.
A new research paper from Global Forest Watch Canada provides for the first time important information on the significant lack of reporting of greenhouse gas emissions caused by boreal forest disturbance in the Alberta tar sands.
There is no silver bullet technology that will provide for the world’s needs – likely a mix of several different renewable sources will be needed – what is clear however is that it’s not the technology that’s lacking but the political will to...
Global warming occurs when the heat from the sun hits the surface of the Earth and begins to radiate back towards outer space, but is trapped by too many greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The tar sands are made up mostly of sand. Only 10-12 per cent is bitumen – a very heavy crude oil that must be heavily processed and refined to be turned into synthetic crude oil.
Tar sands operations require the use of vast quantities of water, which become contaminated and must be stored in huge tailing ponds. This both depletes local water reserves and threatens to pollute the environment and nearby communities.
The main health concerns related to the tar sands are associated with air and water pollution. In addition to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, tar sands operations also emit other substances into the atmosphere, most notably nitrogen...
4.3 million hectares of the Boreal Forest cover the tar sands, and these are being clearcut so that oil companies can access the tar underneath. The Boreal Forest has been referred to as the lungs of our planet, and tar sands operations threaten...
It is often argued that the social and economic benefits of tar sands activities outweigh the environmental harm they cause. This is clearly not the case in Alberta. The pace of tar sands development has exceeded the ability of anyone to deal...
It seems preposterous to most Canadians that outrageous amounts of environmental and social damage is being caused by the tar sands, yet most of the oil produced does not benefit Canada. Seventy per cent of the oil from the tar sands is piped...
Stephen Harper’s best hope for getting the Keystone pipeline approved is a time machine. Because unless Doctor Who shows up to whisk our Prime Minister and John Baird back to 2007 in the time-travelling Tardis, his own record of broken...
Yesterday, I chained myself to the gate of Kinder Morgan’s oil tanker-loading facility in Metro Vancouver alongside my new friend Ben, while 14 fellow activists entered the site to shut it down for the day as part of a protest against...
The January 2014 edition of the well-respected academic journal Energy Policy will include a study entitled “Un-burnable oil: An examination of oil resource utilization in a decarbonized energy system”. The study looks at what the...
Canadian musician Neil Young has created a media storm around his Canadian tour to help defend First Nation land against the unbridled expansion of the tar sands. Called 'Honor the Treaties ', all profits of the four-city tour will...
There comes a time when you need to take a stand, when the processes that were designed to protect us have so broken down that we have no choice but to do so. That is quickly becoming the case with Enbridge’s Northern Gateway tar sands...
When we get sick, when we experience symptoms that we’ve never seen before, we rely on doctors to tell us what’s wrong. We rely on their knowledge and training to diagnose our symptoms and tell us how to get better. When Peace...
One of Canada’s largest oil companies seems to be unaware of the basic rule we all learned in kindergarten: if you make a mess, you clean it up…. before making another one. Act now to prevent CNRL from making a big tar sands...
We won! (for now) CNRL pulls it's re-steaming application. Nine months ago the first of four unstoppable spills was discovered at CNRL’s Primrose site near Cold Lake, Alberta. A few weeks ago, even though the spills are...
Argument 3: You want us to get our oil from countries like Saudi Arabia that have atrocious human right records? Canada’s oil is ethical oil! Answer: If people actually believed this argument then: a) They would oppose...
Tonight is the Annual General Meeting in oil company Statoil, and, thanks to Greenpeace, they have the chance to take an important first step towards becoming a greener, more sustainable company. Deciding Statoil's future...
An internal memo to the federal Minister of the Environment, obtained by Greenpeace via Access to Information legislation, contradicts Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s publicly-stated reason for delaying the long-awaited greenhouse...
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