31 results found
 

Lessons from past and present oil spills

Publication | June 26, 2010 at 16:33

1989 Exxon Valdez

Orca whales threatened by government inaction to investigate diesel spill wreckage

Feature story | September 26, 2007 at 17:00

Greenpeace, along with the Living Oceans Society, continues to put pressure on the federal and provincial governments to investigate a diesel spill that took place inside an ecological reserve, threatening a population of orca whales. Despite...

New documents show Exxon knew of dangerous contamination from their Arkansas tar...

Blog entry by Jesse Coleman | May 22, 2013

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...

Is the oil industry using unsafe rail cars to transport crude?

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | May 21, 2013 1 comment

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 the spill was only 4...

A photo of the final meeting in which the draft agreement was finalised

Image | February 1, 2013 at 17:09

Photos issued on the Arctic Council’s Flickr photostream show oil industry representatives participating in the working group, including the final meeting in which the document was finalised. Peter Velez represented Shell as part of the US...

The end of nature?

Blog entry by Jon Burgwald | August 20, 2012

It isn’t the first time I’ve been to Usinsk in the very north of Russia, so I shouldn’t be surprised — but once again, I’m shocked. I was here for the first time back in May, where I, together with my colleagues from Greenpeace in...

Forest fires in Alberta threaten community already hit by oil spill

Blog entry by Melina Laboucan-Massimo | May 15, 2011

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...

It’s arithmetic: $4.5 billion is chump change for BP

Blog entry by Mark Floegel | November 16, 2012 2 comments

Let me apologize in advance for all the numbers that follow, but they’re important. Eleven men died on Deepwater Horizon the night BP’s Macondo well blew out in April 2010.  It’s one number we shouldn’t forget and no number can be...

Alberta pipeline safety review announcement: a victory for grassroots organizing

Blog entry by Mike Hudema | July 21, 2012 1 comment

On Friday, the Alberta government did something they didn't want to do. At 10:00 a.m. from a room in Calgary Energy Minister Ken Hughes announced that the ERCB (Energy Resources Conservation Board), in conjunction with an independent...

Is This Really What an Oil Spill Clean Up Looks Like?

Blog entry by Melina Laboucan-Massimo | July 20, 2012

Because that is what i keep saying to myself over and over in my head... Melina Laboucan-Massimo at the site of an oil spill "clean up". Photo credit: Joe Whittle  Last week, a fellow member of the community of Little...

1 - 10 of 31 results.

results per page
10 | 20 | 50