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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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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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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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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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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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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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MEDIA ADVISORY: Greenpeace Canada launches aerial blockade of Trans Mountain oil tanker traffic
HAPPENING NOW: Greenpeace Canada launches aerial blockade of Trans Mountain oil tanker traffic 3 July 2018 (VANCOUVER / UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORY) — Greenpeace Canada has just launched an aerial blockade of…
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STATEMENT – Canada needs to listen to market demands and protect caribou, says Greenpeace
Le 27 juin 2018 (Montréal) – En réaction à la lettre de dix-sept entreprises américaines, qui utilisent des produits de pâtes et papiers de la forêt boréale du Canada et…
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Greenpeace report: Trans Mountain “oil tanker superhighway” endangers Pacific Coast marine life, communities and billions in economic activity
26 June 2018 (VANCOUVER)—Today, barely a week after one of the last remaining Southern Resident Orcas was presumed dead, Greenpeace released a new report documenting the communities, marine life, and about CAD$83…