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The Greenpeace Ship “Arctic Sunrise” arrives in Mexico to save the Veracruz reefs from a massive gas pipeline
Greenpeace Mexico announced the arrival of the Arctic Sunrise at a press conference today in the port of Veracruz in Mexico. The ship will remain in Mexican waters from May 13th to June 5th to conduct research on the Veracruz reefs and launch its campaign Mar adentro, mar afuera (“The open sea - the sea…
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BMO’s take on climate greenwashing
Greenpeace activists disrupted BMO Financial Group's conference on climate action, at the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal. The activists unfolded banners to remind the crowd that BMO continues to fund climate destruction and violate the rights of indigenous peoples, despite the banks attempt to convince the public of the contrary.
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Greenpeace Canada complaint spurs formal inquiry into Pathways Alliance ad campaign
TORONTO – The Competition Bureau has announced that it will launch an official investigation into the marketing practices of the Pathways Alliance, a consortium of the six largest oil sands…
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Wildfires and climate change burn their way into Alberta election campaign
Election campaigning is on hold in at least a half-dozen ridings in Alberta where wildfires are threatening homes and lives.
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Greenpeace calls for Imperial Oil to be charged over Kearl spill, projects message on Supreme Court
Greenpeace Canada projected a message on the walls of the Supreme Court of Canada, calling for the federal government to charge Imperial Oil in connection with the leaks and a spill at a tailings pond at its Kearl Oil sands operation.
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New report: RBC jumps to world’s #1 fossil fuel financier
Despite increasing fires and floods, Canadian banks are laggards and fossil fuel “lenders of last resort”
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Indigenous land defenders, climate allies bring shareholder showdown to RBC’s AGM
RBC proved it has no interest in reconciliation, furthering corporate colonialism in how the bank treated the Indigenous delegation who arrived at the bank’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Saskatoon this morning as hundreds of Indigenous water protectors, young people, and allies rallied outside.
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HAPPENING NOW: RBC refuses to let Indigenous delegates, including Wet’suwet’en Hereditary leadership, Gulf South representatives into AGM in Saskatoon
RBC’s attempt to divide and threaten with arrest and physical violence the Indigenous delegation – who all have received necessary proxies – and shut out Wet’suwet’en Hereditary leadership is further confirmation of the bank’s commitment to corporate colonialism. RBC is the primary financier of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which lacks consent from Hereditary Chiefs, the…
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Canadian banks fall further behind on climate change
Like toddlers refusing to put on their snowsuits, Canada’s Big 5 banks are falling further behind their global counterparts who are taking the first, halting steps toward aligning their financing…
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Greenpeace Canada reaction to 2023 federal budget
In reaction to the release of the federal budget by Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, Keith Stewart, Senior Energy Strategist at Greenpeace Canada, said: