Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo stands in front of Syncrude's facility in the Alberta tar sands.

Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo meets with members of the Mikisew Cree First Nation and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Fort Chipewyan, northern Alberta to hear about the impacts of the nearby tar sands on their community.

Mike Mercredi, a community member from the Athabasca Chipewyan / Dene First Nation shows Kumi Naidoo the traditional territory of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the effects tar sands are having on their community, land and wildlife.

Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo on a helicopter tour over the Tar Sands.

An oil soaked Northern Gannet is washed at the Theodore Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.

Balls of tar are collecting all along the white sands of Orange Beach, Alabama.

Concerned individuals along with Greenpeace activists and the Council of Canadians offered Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver a wedding reception to commemorate the union of the Conservative Government and Big Oil, following his talk at a...

The worst Alberta oil spill in 35 years dumped about 4.5 million litres of oil into a wetland area at Evi, Alberta, near the community of Little Buffalo in Lubicon Cree First Nation traditional territory in the Peace River region, Alberta, Canada...

Families with small children live in Little Buffalo near the site of the oil spill.

An air monitoring system is set up at the school in Little Buffalo. Greenpeace is concerned about the Alberta government’s response to the spill. The government initially misinformed the community and the public about the distance from the spill...

Steve Noskey talks to Plains pipeline officials at the entrance to the spill site. Rainbow Pipeline is owned by a Canadian subsidiary of Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline L.P.

Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner, Melina Laboucan-Massimo (centre), a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation, is in Little Buffalo bearing witness to the response to the spill and the impact on the community, including the impact on...

School has been closed due to students and teachers getting sick after an oil spill near the community of Little Buffalo in Lubicon Cree First Nation traditional territory in the Peace River region of Alberta.

Crews work to clean up at Rainbow Pipeline's oil spill, the worst oil spill in Alberta in 35 years, dumping about 4.5 million litres of oil into a wetland area at Evi, Alberta. The spill is near the community of Little Buffalo in Lubicon Cree...

Crews work to clean up at Rainbow Pipeline's oil spill, the worst oil spill in Alberta in 35 years, dumping about 4.5 million litres of oil into a wetland area at Evi, Alberta. The spill is near the community of Little Buffalo in Lubicon Cree...

Crews work to clean up at Rainbow Pipeline's oil spill, the worst oil spill in Alberta in 35 years, dumping about 4.5 million litres of oil into a wetland area at Evi, Alberta. The spill is near the community of Little Buffalo in Lubicon Cree...

Families with small children live in Little Buffalo near the site of the oil spill.

Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation, is bearing witness to the response to the spill and the impact on the community, including on members of her family.

Greenpeace drives a message home to the heart of Canada’s oil industry, hanging a huge banner from the Calgary Tower that says “Separate Oil and State” to highlight the need to sever the cozy relationship between the toxic tar sands oil industry...

Greenpeace activists enter Syncrude's Aurora North tar sands operation and block a pipe into the two-kilometre wide tailings pond, where toxic refuse material from mining operations is deposited. The activists also suspend a banner that reads...