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The biggest loser

Blog entry by laurak | November 4, 2009 5 comments

Oil is already a losing horse. It is a non-renewable and dwindling source of energy, and according to a study by Association For the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO-USA) we already reached peak oil - in 2005. Since we have already burned the...

No redemption

Blog entry by laurak | September 29, 2009 6 comments

During our action in the tar sands of northern Alberta, Canada last week we were running a Twitter and comment feed on the Stop the Tar Sands landing page - so that while people watched the live video feed of our activists they...

George Bush’s uranium rush

Blog entry by Justin | November 28, 2008

With only a matter of days left of his presidency George Bush is a man in a hurry. And with its future under an Obama presidency currently uncertain, so is the nuclear industry. (Fast forward to one minute) ‘You like the...

Indymedia: 16 000 Gather to protest against Castor

Blog entry by Justin | November 10, 2008

8 November - A crowd of 16 000 people demonstrated against the Castor transport in Gorleben today, marching through the town and eventually settling just outside of it, near to the gates of the "Zwischenlager" - the temporary nuclear...

Line in the tar sands, a bird’s eye view of the world's largest industrial development

Blog entry by laurak | September 15, 2009 5 comments

By Mike Townsley, Head of News - Greenpeace International “I have seen the future and it is murder,” lamented Leonard Cohen on my iPod as I arrived in Fort McMurray airport, Alberta, Canada. The oil man’s airport of choice for access...

Nuclear News for October 31st 2008

Blog entry by Justin | October 31, 2008

Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: World Nuclear News: Research base for new Chinese nuclear power ‘A new research and development office opened in Beijing this week, focused on the task of...

Greenpeace activist updates direct from the tar sands

Blog entry by laurak | September 15, 2009 56 comments

Update from Mike Hudema - Climate Campaigner with Greenpeace Canada - 7am local time It's a few hours before we enter the tar sands. The tar sands are the largest industrial, capital and energy project on the planet but most...

Spare a dollar for Vermont Yankee?

Blog entry by Justin | October 31, 2008

Like the rest of us Vermont Yankee is suffering in the current economic climate : The owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant says it will have to wait almost 60 years before it has enough money to decommission the plant. Faced...

Activists Occupy a Bitumen Conveyor Belt in Canadian Tar Sands

Image | October 1, 2009 at 1:07

Greenpeace activists shut down conveyor belt in a tar sands open pit mine.

Postcard from the tar sands

E-card | April 21, 2010 at 12:24

The tar sands - also called oil sands - are one of the largest remaining deposits of oil in the world. Developing the tar sands has created the biggest industrial development project, the biggest capital investment project, and the biggest...

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