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06 October 2009
Prominent Alberta lawyer Brian Beresh raised concerns today that Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is unconstitutionally using his position as premier to exert political influence over the judicial system and undermine the right to fair trials for Greenpeace activists.
04 October 2009
The Greenpeace occupation of the expansion site at the Shell Scotford upgrader to expose the climate crimes of the tar sands ended early this morning after 24 hours.
03 October 2009
Nineteen Greenpeace activists have struck again, this time occupying three stacks at the expansion site of Shell’s Scotford upgrader here to expose more of the climate crimes of the tar sands.
03 October 2009
After nearly 12 hours, Greenpeace activists continue to occupy four structures of the expansion site at the Shell Scotford upgrader to expose the climate crime happening in the tar sands.
02 October 2009
Greenpeace is holding a Climate Action Camp outside of Toronto this weekend, training citizens in civil disobedience to demand action on climate change from the federal government.
02 October 2009
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.
30 September 2009
Greenpeace activists are disrupting Suncor operations today in the heart of the tar sands north of Fort McMurray by blocking two bitumen conveyor belts to highlight the climate crime of tar sands operations.
16 September 2009
responding to the Harper and Obama meeting today, speaking from inside a Greenpeace blockade of a Shell tar sands mining operations, Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada said:
16 September 2009
Greenpeace has ended its blockade at Shell’s Albian Sands mine after successfully bringing international attention to the climate crime of tar sands operations.
15 September 2009
On the eve of the Harper-Obama meeting in Washington D.C., about 25 daring Greenpeace activists have locked down and blockaded 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.
14 September 2009
A new Greenpeace report details how the world’s addiction to oil is increasing the threat the Alberta tar sands pose to the global climate.
14 September 2009
Greenpeace Canada is set to release an exclusive two-disc, re-mastered live recording Amchitka, the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace, featuring Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and the late Phil Ochs. The concert, a fundraiser to protest U.S. nuclear bomb tests near Amchitka, Alaska sees a first-time release on 10 November. The CD is available exclusively through Greenpeace and all proceeds will benefit the organization.
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