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.
28 August 2009
28 August 2009 (Edmonton)—Greenpeace today kicks off a series of climate action camps to train hundreds of people in civil disobedience to defend the planet against climate change.
11 August 2009
11 August 2009 (Halifax, Ottawa) Today Greenpeace launched an ad campaign with a new twist on the controversial “There’s probably no God” campaign, but with a message that is not in dispute. Running on billboards in Halifax and Ottawa, the ad reads: “There’s probably no cod. Now let’s stop overfishing & think of the future.”
05 August 2009
Washington, D.C.-- Aug. 5, 2009 -- Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the maker of Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle brands, today announced stronger fiber sourcing standards that will increase conservation of forests globally and will make the company a leader for sustainably produced tissue products. Greenpeace, which worked with Kimberly-Clark on its revised standards, announced that it will end its “Kleercut” campaign, which focused on the company and its brands.
04 August 2009
Greenpeace Canada is pleased to announce that Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands will make its North American debut at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival this September.
