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Growing GHGs from oil industry put Canadian climate goal further out of reach: Environment Canada
The Canadian government has filed a report with the United Nations that shows that the gap between the greenhouse gas reductions we promised to make under the Paris climate agreement and where current and planned policies will get us has grown by 50 percent, relative to what the government was saying in 2016.
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Greenpeace heads to Supreme Court to defend polluter pay principle
Oil company polluters, not taxpayers and farmers, should bear responsibility for cleaning up the leftover toxic sites oil companies leave behind.
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BC finds Kinder Morgan’s Achilles Heel
The provincial government in British Columbia threw another wrench in Kinder Morgan’s plans to build a new tar sands pipeline this week. On Tuesday, it announced proposed new regulations to…
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Setting Sail to protect the Antarctic
As I write this the Arctic Sunrise, one of Greenpeace’s ships, is sailing south. For the next three months its crew will be working alongside a team of campaigners, photographers, film-makers, scientists and journalists from across the globe to build the case for the world’s largest protected area: an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary.
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US Bank ends its credit relationship with Enbridge Inc.
Another bank moves away from funding tar sands pipelines 2 November 2017 (TORONTO) – In a press release MN350 and Honor the Earth made public that US Bank was ending…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace report warns of risks to banks betting on tar sands pipelines
30 October 2017 (TORONTO) — A new report by Greenpeace and Oil Change International warns of major banks’ exposure to financial and reputational damage due to their financing of tar sands…
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In the Pipeline: Risks for Funders of Tar Sands Pipelines
This report is written for banks, their institutional shareholders, and for those financial institutions considering financing or arranging finance – through the purchase or underwriting of corporate bonds or shares – the construction and operation of any of the proposed tar sands pipelines.
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace report warns of risks to banks betting on tar sands pipelines
30 October 2017 (TORONTO) — A new report by Greenpeace and Oil Change International warns of major banks’ exposure to financial and reputational damage due to their financing of tar…
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Whether by land or by sea resistance to tar sands pipeline continues to grow.
As three tar sands pipelines (Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain, Enbridge Line 3, and TransCanada Keystone XL) try to press forward the resistance to them is rising up, growing and taking action by land and by sea.
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World’s 8th largest banks says it won’t finance tar sands pipelines
There was some great news out of France this week, as BNP Paribas, the largest bank in France and 8th largest in the world, publicly stated that it will cut ties with tar sands pipelines and the companies behind them.