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The Canadian government should not be writing blank cheques for a Texas oil-giant
Right now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is thinking about using our tax dollars to bail out a Texas oil company’s failing pipeline and tanker project. The federal government announced today…
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A Call for Public Safety: Addressing Nuclear Risks on the Great Lakes
This report identifies steps that the government should take in order to ensure public safety for Ontarians, given that there are 10 operating nuclear reactors in the greater Toronto area.
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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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The Rainbow Spill: A Case of Crime and (No) Punishment
The 2011 Rainbow pipeline spill near the Lubicon Cree community of Little Buffalo was one of the largest in Alberta’s history.
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Greenpeace’s Vision for a New Conservation Based Forest Economy in Canada’s Boreal Forest
Greenpeace's Vision for a New Conservation Based Forest Economy in Canada's Boreal Forest is an innovative look at how forest communities, industry and environmental groups can work together to protect our fragile forests.
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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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Why Rudolph the Reindeer really has a red nose!
He’s found on our Holiday greeting cards, on our festive napkins, sweaters and cushions. Toy manufacturers love him and children’s clothing brands use him profusely. He is indeed the most famous of all reindeers; our beloved Rudolph.
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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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Banking giant HSBC rules out financing controversial Keystone XL pipeline
20 April 2018 (TORONTO) — HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, confirmed today that it will no longer provide project finance for new tar sands projects, including the construction of any pipelines.…
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How does solar work in the Arctic?
Solar in the Arctic at first seems to be an oxymoron. After all, it is dark in the Arctic for nearly half the year. But then again, it's light for half the year too – just like on the rest of the earth!
