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Feds sued over refusal to protect resident killer whales

Feature story | October 7, 2008 at 17:00

Environmental groups across Canada, including Greenpeace, hit the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) with a lawsuit today. Filed by lawyers with Ecojustice, the lawsuit alleges that DFO has failed to legally protect critical habitat...

Orca court case still alive!

Feature story | May 10, 2009 at 17:00

The orca court case lives on. A federal court judge has denied a request by the federal Department of Fisheries and Ocean’s (DFO) to kill the case that environmental groups have launched.

Fight to protect endangered killer whales far from over

Feature story | April 24, 2009 at 16:00

Greenpeace and its partners are awaiting a court decision on a request from the federal government to dismiss an important case brought by environmental groups to protect British Columbia’s threatened northern and endangered southern populations...

CBC’s The Current: Resolute, Greenpeace and SLAPP suits

Blog entry by Richard Brooks | February 21, 2014 1 comment

Proposed anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) legislation in Ontario continues to make headlines. And now the CBC’s The Current, with guest host Rick MacInnes-Rae, put the spotlight on Resolute Forest Products’...

History Repeating: Marineland Canada, Marineland Animal Defense and SLAPP Suits

Blog entry by Guest: Dylan Powell, Marineland Animal Defense | September 18, 2013 4 comments

On 23 May, Greenpeace was served a $7 million lawsuit by logging giant Resolute Forest Products. We believe this is a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) . This type of lawsuit burdens Greenpeace with massive...

Payback time for the big polluters?

Blog entry by Kristin Casper | November 6, 2014

The 500,000 people who marched for the climate in New York and other major cities in September have passed the torch to the people in the Philippines. The People's Climate Walk is a 40-day, 1000 km journey from Manila to ground zero in...

Robson Bight Salvage Operation a Success

Feature story | May 19, 2009 at 17:00

The long awaited salvage operation of the wreckage in Robson Bight Ecological Reserve was completed on Tuesday, providing hope that B.C.’s resident orcas no longer face the threat of another spill from a sunken truck laden with diesel fuel.

ExxonMobil fights the future. The future is winning.

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | February 25, 2016

As the battle over climate change shifts from the court of public opinion to actual courts and securities regulators, Exxon’s long history of opposing action on climate change is casting a shadow over the company’s future. In...

The Guardian Tree: Where art and the forest come together

Blog entry by Richard Brooks, Forest Campaign Coordinator | February 12, 2014 2 comments

The importance of Canada’s Boreal Forest transcends geographical, cultural and physical boundaries: it has global significance. The Boreal Forest plays a critical role in mitigating global climate change and holds some of the highest...

A World Without Greenpeace? How One Corporation Is Attacking Your Right to Speak for...

Blog entry by Molly Dorozenski | March 16, 2017 1 comment

Your right to speak out is being threatened right now in a dizzying variety of ways, not only by oppressive governments around the world, but also by underhanded corporations who want to suppress speech through expensive lawsuits. ...

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