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One of the activists taking part in the protest at Kinder Morgan tar sands facility on October 16th, 2013 explains her motivation to take non-violent direct action and why she believes in peaceful protest.
Canada's federal and Alberta provincialgovernments ignored the findings of a joint task force and deceived thepublic when they committed $2.5 billion to carbon capture and storage (CCS)technology, suggests a briefing note to the report obtained...
Greenpeace is giving one lucky Albertan a chance today to get back the $600 dollars the Stelmach government is wasting on its flawed carbon capture and storage scheme.
Alberta’s Energy Minister Ken Hughes is in damage control mode after published reports alleged that his review of pipeline safety in Alberta has been overly influenced by the very people under investigation. The Minister announced...
You’ve probably had your planet-loving heart broken before, but this time it truly can be different. Shell wants to build two new massive new open-pit tar sands mines in northern Alberta. Normally the odds of stopping a new...
Environment Minister Peter Kent is being urged by his department to avoid “distractions” (like misleading media reports on science articles) and focus on “essential” regulations for oilsands companies and other large polluters. ...
The following guest blog was written by Jess Housty, a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation, which lies at the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. It is a powerful account of her experience in participating in the 3rd Annual Tar...
Last week after Alberta suffered yet another pipeline spill , this one threatening the drinking water supply of tens of thousands of Albertans, we wanted to send Premier Alison Redford a very clear message about the need to invest in...
Greenpeace may not have their $5 million to spend on ads, but we stole Enbridge’s spotlight yesterday. Enbridge, which is trying to build a new tar sands pipeline across the Rockies and through the Great Bear rainforest,...
Following a rigorous, non-scientific research effort, Greenpeace Canada believes that it has discovered the " Lake of Fire " that is currently a very hot topic in the Alberta election. The Lake of Fire appears to be a large...
If you want to understand why federal Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver is so hot under the collar, ignore the hype over “foreign funding” and look back at what happened at last year’s meeting of federal and provincial energy...
Remember that massive tar sands pipeline that so many people were concerned enough about that they were willing to risk getting arrested over in both Canada and the US ? Well, Stephen Harper may have thought it was a “no brainer” ,...
Update: Take action now! Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent says that thousands of wolves may be shot in an effort to safeguard woodland caribou populations in Alberta . Instead of focussing on the real cause of caribou...
The vacation is over and this weekend, it's back to reality for President Obama. While the President has been in Martha’s Vineyard, hundreds of people have been uniting outside the White House with a message for Obama: deny the permit...
The claim that “There Is No Alternative” is a clever way to try to shut down debate when one is forced to defend an ethically-challenged position. So it’s no surprise to see it popping up so consistently in the talking points of tar...
Stephanie Goodwin June 1, 2010 The BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico teaches us one thing clearly: oil spills, period. Oil and water do not mix. Greenpeace is working to stop Enbridge, an oil pipeline giant, from...
As three tar sands pipelines (Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain, Enbridge Line 3, and TransCanada Keystone XL) try to press forward the resistance to them is rising up, growing and taking action by land and by sea. This week as...
Well, the dust has settled and the Progressive Conservative party has won another majority government. Only this time, for the first time in my life, it was surprising. No one at the Greenpeace office will be cheering the...
Environment Minister Peter Kent is still refusing to issue an emergency order to protect Alberta’s woodland caribou, despite a court order last July asking him to in light of scientific evidence. Kent has suggested that the existing...
Environment Minister Peter Kent, just back from COP17 in Durban, has announced Canada's pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol is a cornerstone of international climate negotiations and plays a key role in addressing the...
The Globe and Mail is reporting today on how Environment Canada predict that expanding the tar sands will single-handedly undo greenhouse gas gains made by weaning the country’s electrical supply off coal. This is a problem,...
As I write this, there is oil spilling from a CP Rail derailment in Saskatchewan . We don’t know the full impact yet, but this follows another CP spill on northern Ontario last month when the company first said that the spill was only...
To say that rock legend Neil Young has been making waves on his ACFN ‘ Honour the Treaties ’ tour would be an understatement. His comments about the horrors of the tar sands have made front-page headlines, set social media ablaze, and...
Greenpeace today condemned a lawsuit launched against it by Syncrude, Canada’s largest tar sands producer and polluter. The civil suit follows a Greenpeace action at Syncrude’s "Aurora" site in northern Alberta on July 24th when activists...
This blog was originally published on EnergyDesk As the Dakota Access Pipeline becomes the new battleground for climate activists, another, equally significant pipeline drama is unfolding a few hundred miles north. The...
It’s not wikileaks, but new documents obtained under Access to Information legislation are shedding some more light on just how far Canada’s embassy in Washington is going in defence of the tar sands. Not only are Foreign Affairs...
Greenpeace volunteers have been making noise across Southern Ontario about Canada’s biggest scandal - the Alberta Tar Sands. Equipped with Greenpeace’s newest publication, GP IN TOUCH magazine, we distributed the spoof tabloid to...
Last week I was in Bella Bella to witness the Joint Panel Review (JRP) hearings for the Enbridge Gateway Pipeline. The Heiltsuk First Nation is one of the many communities that would be impacted by this project. As such the...
Between 1999 and 2008 Enbridge pipelines spilled oil 610 times . That's more than one spill a week for nine years. Record numbers of people have registered as intervenors in the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines Joint Review Panel...
Oil company polluters, not taxpayers and farmers, should bear responsibility for cleaning up the leftover toxic sites oil companies leave behind. Tomorrow, Greenpeace Canada’s lawyer will defend the “polluter pays”...
Update: Based on subsequent media reports, it now appears that tar sands emissions were up 21 per cent from what was reported last year, but this year they have re-stated the 2008 emissions (increasing them from the previous estimate...
On Monday, March 26, hundreds are set to rally against tar sands tankers and pipelines at the Vancouver Art Gallery . Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are trying to punch new tar sands pipelines through a wall of opposition, bring...
December 1 st marks the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Save the Fraser Declaration . Today in Vancouver the Yinka Dene Alliance is holding a press conference to commemorate the precedent-setting declaration, which took...
The Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil just released a Report Card for their in situ tar sands operations, and it was an eye-opener. The factoid that will probably get most of the attention is that they are producing a...
(Originally printed in the Edmonton Journal) Politicians are known the world over for talking out of both sides of their mouths. They often make grand proclamations to win votes, to silence criticism, to placate opposition.
I thought only the Brits could pull off this kind of discreet disdain, but there’s probably a little less swagger in the step of Alberta’s officialdom after a polite-bordering-on-condescending rebuke from the U.S. Environmental...
This weekend, First Nations peoples, tar sands community members and environmental advocates will come together for a 20km walk through the tar sands. The walk will be a chance to see tar sands destruction first hand, but more...
Mike Hudema and Sheila Muxlow June 30, 2010 After a two-and-a-half-month trial, tar sands oil giant Syncrude has been found guilty of the criminal charges laid in connection with the deaths of 1,606 ducks that in one of its...
Jessica Wilson May 13, 2010 The Tar Sands Take Europe (part 2) The Guardian ran a story Monday on the front page of its business section about the newly-released report from Greenpeace Canada and Greenpeace UK, called “Tar...
Jessica Wilson May 12, 2010 The Tar Sands Take Europe (part 1) When most Canadians set off to backpack across Europe in their 20s, I would reckon that the typical travel plan doesn’t include stops at pension funds or...
From May 11th to May 20th, Greenpeace Canada and Greenpeace Nordic are bringing the reality of tar sands expansion and destruction to new audiences across Scandinavia. A target of the tour is StatoilHydro, Scandinavia’s biggest company...
1. Residents of communities living downstream from tar sands operations are experiencing unusually high rates of rare cancers and auto-immune diseases. Dr. John O'Connor spoke out on the occurrance of rare cancer clusters in the...
The people in downtown Vancouver got a taste of the tough turns and hazards facing oil tankers if Enbridge's proposal to build oil pipelines to BC's Great Bear Rainforest is built. Across the street from Enbridge's office,...
After a two-and-a-half-month trial, tar sands oil giant Syncrude has been found guilty of the criminal charges laid in connection with the deaths of 1,606 ducks that in one of its mining tailings lakes in April 2008. Syncrude was...
For the past few years, the best kept secret in Vancouver is that crude oil tanker traffic, once a rarity in Vancouver’s harbour, has increased dramatically with more than one oil tanker a week leaving our narrow harbour. The oil...
Despite vast opposition from First Nations, environmental activists, and concerned citizens, Enbridge continues its relentless campaign to convince the leaders of BC communities that the proposed Northern Gateway Pipelines, which would...
by Stephanie Goodwin, Greenpeace B.C. Director Greenpeace activist Brian Beaudry and I have been locked down in our large protest camp outside Enbridge Pipelines' downtown Vancouver office for the past eight hours. We are...
Reaction of Melina Laboucan Massimo, member of the Lubicon Cree and Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner, to today's announcement that clean up operations at the massive Rainbow Pipeline oil spill near Little Buffalo were...
Melina Laboucan-Massimo June 15, 2010 George Poitras, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, and Dr. David Schindler. Image from Norwegian news site VG NETT. Back from a recent tour to Scandinavia , I'm left with the sense that...
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