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Who are the climbers of Greenpeace Canada’s action on the tower of Montreal’s Olympic Parc?
You need to be bold, you need to be skilled, but above everything, you need to truly believe in the power of every person to change to world. These women and men are acting today in the name of many by climbig the Olympic Park tower in Montreal to protest the federal government’s Trans Mountain…
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LIVE: Five Greenpeace activists climb Montreal Olympic Park Tower to protest Trans Mountain Pipeline buy-out
Early this morning, five Greenpeace Canada activists climbed the Olympic Park tower in Montreal to protest the federal government’s Trans Mountain Pipeline buy-out. In just a few days, on July…
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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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I spent over 36 hours suspended from a Vancouver bridge to stop a tar sands tanker
For over 36 hours, six other climbers and I hung from the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge in Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver), putting our bodies in the way of a massive tar sands oil tanker and preventing it from passing through.
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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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The Impacts of Logging in the Great Northern Forest
The Great Northern Forest is the evergreen crown of the planet, the boreal forest landscape that rings the subarctic and representing nearly one-third of the forest left on Earth. This amazing ecosystem is an important global reservoir of stored carbon and a crucial haven for biodiversity in the face of climate change.
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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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LIVE : Climbers block oil tanker from Vancouver bridge
Early this morning, seven climbers including Indigenous leaders and Greenpeace activists repelled from the Iron Workers’ Memorial Bridge in Vancouver, forming an aerial blockade in the path of oil tanker…
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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…