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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 2 comments

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...

Sonora Island & the Great Bear Rainforest: Protecting What Remains

Blog entry by Eduardo Sousa | May 21, 2013 3 comments

The Great Bear Rainforest is so vast that it’s taken me four years just to visit the extraordinary old-growth forested valleys and islands, and communities of the central and north coasts of British Columbia – Bella Bella, Bella Coola,...

Resolute's green marketing won't cut it

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt | May 16, 2013 1 comment

At Resolute Forest Products’ Resolute Forest Products’ annual general meeting of stockholders in Thunder Bay today, CEO Richard Garneau pointed to a lot of pictures of trees. Then he pointed to some colorful green pictures. Then more...

Don't get railroaded into accepting tar sands as inevitable

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | May 16, 2013

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was speaking in New York today as part of his government’s pro-Keystone pipeline lobbying effort, where he made the argument that if the pipeline isn’t approved, the oil will simply come in by rail and...

Paula Bear opposes Arctic drilling in Canada

Image | May 15, 2013 at 10:50

Greenpeace volunteers bring a life-like polar bear to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on the same day Canada begins its two year chairmanship of the Arctic Council. The polar bear stands by a banner reading “Harper: Arctic drilling = spilling.”

Buyer beware, Resolute’s sustainability falls flat

Feature story | May 15, 2013 at 6:00

A new Greenpeace report concludes that Resolute Forest Products’s sustainability claims cannot be trusted and unveils to customers the false promises these claims contain.

Oh, Canada: 5 reasons Canada's Prime Minister is bad news for the Arctic

Blog entry by Patrick Bonin | May 14, 2013

In six short years, ‘The Harper Government’ (TM) has taken us from hockey, maple syrup and Mounties to pipelines, tar sands and climate change denial. This government has wreaked havoc on the Canadian environment, and now they’re...

Resolute False Promises: the [un]sustainability report 2013

Publication | May 14, 2013 at 15:42

As one of the largest logging companies in Canada’s Boreal Forest, Resolute markets itself as “sustainable” to meet strong customer demand for responsible forest products. However, behind these claims are unsustainable forest practices,...

Canada’s pro-oil agenda threatens to destroy the Arctic: Greenpeace

Feature story | May 14, 2013 at 13:01

As Canada officially took the chair of the Arctic Council today, Greenpeace sent a direct message to delegates at the ministerial meeting in Kiruna, Sweden, and launched an international mobilization online calling on Canada to put people and the...

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