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Tar Sands in the Atlantic: TransCanada’s Proposed Energy East Pipeline
A new report released today by the US - based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in partnership with numerous Canadian and U.S. groups, shows the proposed Energy East pipeline would drive a 300 to 500 per cent increase in crude tanker traffic down the Atlantic coast from Saint John, New Brunswick to the U.S. Gulf…
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Top 10 Solar Facts
This summer, we’re launching a new campaign to bring solar power to all people and communities in Alberta. Solar4All is about going beyond fossil fuels by not only changing where our energy comes from but how it’s owned, distributed, and controlled. Unlike fossil fuels, solar power can be a source of clean, low-cost energy that…
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Shell’s retreat from Canadian Arctic creates space for Arctic protection
Earlier this week on World Oceans Day we were greeted with some wonderful and exciting news: Shell announced it was giving up all its offshore exploration permits in the Canadian Arctic!
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This is BIG! The seafood industry & major brands like McDonald’s commit to safeguard the Arctic
Amazing news! Today an entire industry including major global brands McDonald’s, Tesco, Young’s Seafood and Iglo agreed to push back against destruction of our pristine Arctic waters.
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Nuclear scars: The Lasting Legacies of Chernobyl and Fukushima
To mark the 30th and 5th anniversaries of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, Greenpeace commissioned reviews of scientific literature examining radioactive contamination and health effects linked with the accidents.
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Overcoming the Impossible: Safeguarding the Great Bear Rainforest
It’s Monday and I am standing in a room, waiting to speak at the media conference that announces the completion of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements – safeguarding an area of forest larger than Vancouver Island, bigger than Belgium. This day is twenty years in the making.
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Celebrating twenty years of campaigning to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest
At long last, today we celebrate the culmination of over twenty years of campaigning to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest. We started with conflict in the mid-1990s: exposing to the…
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Great Bear to the Boreal: 7 Ways to Shorten a Campaign for Forest Protection
We are getting much closer to the end of the long and winding road that has been the Great Bear Rainforest campaign. As I mentioned in a recent blog, along the way to completing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements we have encountered pot holes, forks, stop signs, and late last year, a couple of big…
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Protecting Intact Forests & FSC’s Motion 65: Getting the Facts Straight
The term Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) is well recognized in scientific literature and certification standards, and within the supply chain and in the policies of major forest product companies. IFLs…
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