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Greenpeace raises a windmill in the face of a chill breeze from Peter Kent

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | November 27, 2011

Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent says he's going to the  United Nations climate conference that opens tomorrow in Durban, South Africa to promote oil exports from the tar sands . I was trying to think of an analogy (“like...

Occupying the Climate Talks: Listen to the People, not the Polluters

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | December 9, 2011

The climate talks in Durban, South Africa have been sleep-walking towards disaster, so we added a bit of positive energy today by staging a protest inside the conference. During the protest, Greenpeace International Executive Director ...

Harper government Kyoto withdrawal issues death sentence to world's most vulnerable

Blog entry by Christine Leclerc | December 12, 2011

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...

Can we have the old Canada back?

Blog entry by Tzeporah Berman | November 30, 2011

Oh Canada, do you remember when scientists identified a grave environmental threat caused by the release of gases from everyday objects used by billions of people around the world? And do you remember how we were forced to come...

Canada: Climate Criminal

Blog entry by Rex Weyler | January 5, 2012 1 comment

At the dawn of the 21st century a new political regime has transformed Canada from global hero – once standing up for peace, people, and nature – to global criminal, plunging into war, eroding civil rights, and destroying environments.

Greenpeace brands the Harper government a "climate fail"

Video | November 28, 2011 at 15:12

At dawn on the opening day of the UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, Greenpeace took to Parliament Hill to brand the Harper government a "climate fail" of epic proportions. Activists used hundreds of LED emergency lights to spell "climate...

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