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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…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace Canada blockade reaches 30-hour mark as tanker pulls away from terminal
The protest against the TMX pipeline and planned sevenfold increase of tanker traffic, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s planned $4.5B buyout of the project, is entering its second…
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The Impacts of Logging in the Great Northern Forest
The Great Northern Forest is the evergreen crown of the planet, the boreal forest landscape that rings the subarctic and representing nearly one-third of the forest left on Earth. This amazing ecosystem is an important global reservoir of stored carbon and a crucial haven for biodiversity in the face of climate change.
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace Canada launches aerial bridge blockade in path of Trans Mountain oil tanker traffic
The message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau—and pipeline companies and banks watching the TMX battle—is clear: ‘Not in our name, not with our money will any new pipeline be built.’…
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LIVE : Climbers block oil tanker from Vancouver bridge
Early this morning, seven climbers including Indigenous leaders and Greenpeace activists repelled from the Iron Workers’ Memorial Bridge in Vancouver, forming an aerial blockade in the path of oil tanker…
