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Reflections in Fukushima: The Fukushima Daiichi Accident Seven Years On
Seven years after the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and one year after the Japanese government lifted evacuation orders in areas of Namie and Iitate, radiation levels remain too high for the safe return of thousands of Japanese citizen evacuees.
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Darlington Refurbishment: Risk Issues Require Greater Attention
The Ontario government directed Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to start rebuilding reactors at the Darlington nuclear station beginning in 2016. But OPG hadn't even completed a final cost estimate for the work.
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Investor beware: Kinder Morgan Canada’s climate risk
Kinder Morgan Canada Limited (KML) has disclosed that it is exposed to physical and transition risks related to climate change that could block the construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline, and which threaten the longer-term viability of its business model.
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Building a Green Economy in the Boreal Forest
“Building a Green Economy in the Boreal Forest,” lays out a vision for the development of the Boreal Forest to build new, stable, viable economies that communities can count on in the long term, while preserving the tremendous ecological values contained in the Boreal Forest.
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Major breakthrough for Ocean Lovers: UN takes landmark step towards high seas biodiversity agreement
It is time for Ocean Lovers worldwide to celebrate! After years of political foot-dragging, and four hectic days of negotiations at the United Nations, a breakthrough came in the wee hours of Saturday morning,…
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Do ocean sanctuaries really work?
Our oceans are massive and unlike most places on land, they don’t really have borders. Animals, water (and sadly now plastic) all move freely across the globe.
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Greenpeace calls out Minister Blanchette’s failure on caribou outside Quebec legislature
Early this morning, a group of Greenpeace activists visited Quebec’s legislature to denounce the failure of the Minister of Forests, Fauna and Parks, Luc Blanchette, to protect caribou. We brought a life-size “caribou coffin” and banner reading: No real action, No caribou. We also brought with us the voices of over 23,000 of you who…
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Winning on the world’s largest tuna company and what it means for the oceans
It took two years of relentless campaigning and nearly 700,000 concerned people from around the world, but today we are sharing the good news that together we convinced the world’s largest tuna company to clean up its act!
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Calgary oil patch not laughing at climate lawsuits anymore
Three years ago, oil industry spokespeople scoffed when Greenpeace International sent letters to oil companies and their insurers that asked what they would do if oil companies were sued over their history of funding climate denial and opposing policies to fight climate change. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers brushed the letters off as a…
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10,000 People stand strong to protect land and water from Kinder Morgan
What do ten thousand people gathering to stand with Indigenous Peoples to protect land, rivers, streams and the Pacific Ocean from a dirty oil pipeline look like?
