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Greenpeace alters Total billboards in Edmonton to be more honest

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 billboards in Edmonton to make them more accurately reflect the destruction that Total will inflict on Alberta’s environment.

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Significant failure in reporting tar sands greenhouse gas emissions

The extent of greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands operations is much worse than reported due to the failure of oil companies and governments to account for emissions from forest destruction, according to new research by Global Forest Watch Canada.

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Activists block tar sands mining operation to send message to Obama and Harper: Climate leaders don’t buy tar sands

On the eve of the Harper-Obama meeting in Washington D.C., Greenpeace activists are locking down and blockading a giant dump truck and shovel at Shell’s massive Albian Sands open-pit mine in northern Alberta to send the message that the tar sands are a global climate crime that must be stopped.

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Kimberly-Clark and Greenpeace agree to historic measures to protect Canada's Boreal forest

5 August 2009

Canada's precious Boreal Forest is better conserved today. So are ancient forests around the world.

At a joint news conference in Washington DC, Greenpeace and the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the world’s largest tissue-product manufacturer, announced an historic agreement that will ensure greater protection and sustainable management of Canada's Boreal Forest. The agreement also will stand out as a model for forest-products companies worldwide.

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XEROX: STOP DESTROYING INTACT BOREAL FOREST

Right now, the XEROX building downtown Montreal has been declared a forest crime scene by a team of Greenpeace’s volunteers. They are holding banners saying XEROX: DON’T BUY BOREAL FOREST DESTRUCTION at the entrance doors and handing flyers. In short, they are protesting the fact that XEROX buys and sells paper made from the destruction of intact areas of Canada’s Boreal Forest.

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16 Greenpeace activists arrested during blockade of Quebec forest ministry

Two teams of Greenpeace activists have been arrested for blockading the offices of the Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources today to protest against the ministry’s approval of the destruction of the last remaining intact forest areas in the province.

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Greenpeace blocks office of Quebec’s forest ministry

Greenpeace activists are blocking access to the Ministry of Natural Resources to disrupt its regular business activities in protest against the destruction of Quebec’s last intact forests.

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Greenpeace’s new vision for Canada’s Boreal Forest

Greenpeace has released a new vision for Canada’s Boreal Forest that will protect the health and integrity of our Boreal Forests and reinvigorate the forest industry and northern forest communities.

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Can Statoil wash its hands of the Tar Sands?

The largest industrial project in the world. The largest capital investment in history. The world’s second largest oil field. The Canadian Tar Sands show just how desperate the oil industry is to feed its carbon habit. Now, thanks to a Greenpeace campaign investors are starting to question the wisdom paying for a project which will destroy an area of forest the size of England, then poison the ground and condemn the world to runaway climate change.

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Greenpeace text action demands AbitibiBowater step into a green future

Greenpeace has unveiled a new twist to its campaign to turn AbitibiBowater from a company that destroys forests to one that manages forests responsibly and sustainably. We are calling on all volunteers and supporters to send text messages to Denis Leclerc, AbitibiBowater’s Vice-President of Environment and Sustainability. Tell him it’s time his company stopped destroying Canada’s precious, intact Boreal Forest.

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