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Ontario will mourn loss of green energy jobs if Hudak elected

Feature story | October 3, 2011 at 12:21

Burlington - Greenpeace Canada installed a green energy memorial outside the Excess Energy assembly facility today to symbolize the loss of green-collar jobs in Ontario if Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is elected, scraps Ontario’s groundbreaking... Read more >

Dear Oprah...

Blog entry by Hilary | September 22, 2011 1 comment

Dear Oprah, As one of the most powerful and influential people in the world and the only living woman to make a list of people who have changed the world, you must possess a strong personal interest and social responsibility when... Read more >

Tears can’t turn back the rising oceans: Action can.

Blog entry by mhudema | September 15, 2011 4 comments

Tears can’t turn back the rising oceans: Action can. My eyes welled up with tears and anger when I read the latest report from the Maldives’ Environment Minister Mohamed Aslam. He painted a very clear picture of the urgency... Read more >

An Activist Tale: The Quest for Cairn Energy's Oil Spill Response Plan

Blog entry by Christine Leclerc | September 9, 2011

On June 4, 2011 I took part in the largest act of maritime civil disobedience in history with a group of Greenpeace activists that would become known as the Arctic 18. We boarded the Liev Eiriksson, a deep sea oil drilling platform... Read more >

From Alberta, with love. (Obama: Choose HOPE not Tar Sands!)

Blog entry by adavies | August 30, 2011

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... Read more >

A Challenge to Peter Kent from the Tar Sands

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | August 8, 2011 5 comments

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,... Read more >

Arctic ice melting faster as Canada turns away from climate policy

Blog entry by Brian Blomme | May 4, 2011 1 comment

Media are reporting that scientists with the Arctic Council see evidence that ice in the Arctic is melting faster than they expected.  This disturbing news comes right after the Harper government won a majority government. The... Read more >

How fast could the federal government put a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program in...

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | April 27, 2011

The speed with which we could put in place a cap-and-trade program is, much to my surprise, a key question in the federal election campaign. The answer is: not long at all, if a government is willing to simply act on the ten years... Read more >

Gulf oil spill confidential documents now on-line: Help us find what’s in them

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | April 20, 2011

As our way of marking the anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf, Greenpeace has put on-line a searchable database of over 30,000 documents related to the Macondo disaster. Now we need your help to tell us what we’ve got. In... Read more >

Climate and Energy Round-Up for Federal Election: Who’s Said What So Far

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | April 6, 2011

The pundits kept telling us that politicians weren’t going to talk about climate change, but after a week and a bit on the campaign trail we’ve already seen a fair bit of action on the energy front. It started with the NDP ... Read more >

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