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Québec Government to create more artificial forests at the detriment of protected areas
July 26, 2018 (VAL D’OR & MONTRÉAL) – Three environmental NGOs ring the alarm today with regards to the Wood Production Strategy to drastically increase the quantity of wood produced…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace Canada activists climbed Montreal’s Olympic Park tower to protest the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
Three days before the federal government is possibly slated to move forward with spending $4.5 billion of public money to buy the Trans Mountain and expansion infrastructure (TMX), activists called…
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Who are the climbers of Greenpeace Canada’s action on the tower of Montreal’s Olympic Parc?
You need to be bold, you need to be skilled, but above everything, you need to truly believe in the power of every person to change to world. These women and men are acting today in the name of many by climbig the Olympic Park tower in Montreal to protest the federal government’s Trans Mountain…
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LIVE: Five Greenpeace activists climb Montreal Olympic Park Tower to protest Trans Mountain Pipeline buy-out
Early this morning, five Greenpeace Canada activists climbed the Olympic Park tower in Montreal to protest the federal government’s Trans Mountain Pipeline buy-out. In just a few days, on July…
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MEDIA ADVISORY – HAPPENING NOW: Greenpeace Canada activists climb Montreal’s Olympic Park Tower to protest the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
19 July 2018 (MONTREAL) — Five Greenpeace Canada activists are climbing the Montreal Olympic Park tower to deploy a 10x25m banner on which can be read ‘Don’t dirty our money: Stop Pipelines’. This is an act of peaceful resistance to the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline and tanker project (TMX) which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intends…
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The Arctic Sunrise Ship in Vancouver
The Arctic Sunrise, our icebreaker vessel, just anchored in Vancouver on Unceded Coast Salish Territory as it follows the route of what could become a tar sands tanker superhighway -…
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REACTIVE: Starbucks to remove fossil fuel derived plastic straws globally, debut new lids in Vancouver, Seattle
Vancouver, BC – Starbucks has announced today that it is removing fossil fuel derived plastic straws from its 28,000 stores globally by 2020, including its over 1000 stores in Canada.…
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I spent over 36 hours suspended from a Vancouver bridge to stop a tar sands tanker
For over 36 hours, six other climbers and I hung from the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge in Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver), putting our bodies in the way of a massive tar sands oil tanker and preventing it from passing through.
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PRESS RELEASE: Peaceful Greenpeace Canada blockade of oil tanker ends
4 July 2018 (UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES/VANCOUVER) — The Greenpeace Canada aerial bridge blockade in the path of the Trans Mountain tar sands oil tanker, Serene…
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These 7 Indigenous artists’ designs flew in the path of tar sands tanker traffic
On Tuesday 3 July, Greenpeace Canada launched a 12-person mid-air bridge blockade in the path of a tar sands oil tanker. The blockade is made of people from the Coast…
