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STATEMENT: Ford cancelling cap-and-trade bad for Ontario’s budget, worse for the environment
16 October (TORONTO) In response to Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer’s report saying that cancelling cap-and-trade will cost the province $3 billion, Greenpeace Canada senior energy strategist Keith Stewart said: “The…
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The Answer To A Baking Planet, Is Us.
Last week, the National Academy of Sciences published a report stating (according to the CBC): “The world is at risk of entering “hothouse” conditions with average temperatures 4-5 C higher…
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You did it! Samsung chooses renewable energy!
Remember the time we gave Samsung stores a makeover...
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Five Ways People Are Standing Up To Oil Pipeline Companies
All over the world, people are getting more concerned about the threats posed by major new oil pipelines. They’re prone to spills and, as a result, they’re a serious risk to clean water and the wildlife, ecosystems and communities living along their routes.
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace activists drop banner, occupy Canadian High Commission in U.K.
British and Canadian activists, including the B.C. woman who scaled the EU’s tallest building in 2013 to protest Arctic oil drilling, are on the scene. Photos are available at the link below.…
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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!
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Top 10 Solar Facts
This summer, we’re launching a new campaign to bring solar power to all people and communities in Alberta. Solar4All is about going beyond fossil fuels by not only changing where our energy comes from but how it’s owned, distributed, and controlled. Unlike fossil fuels, solar power can be a source of clean, low-cost energy that…
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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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How the Federal Parties Rate on Climate
Short Version: What You Need to Know Conservatives: The Conservatives are at least clear: they don’t even pretend to care about climate change or that they will really do anything about…
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Building a Solar Dream in a Tar Sands Nightmare
After dealing with three decades of intensive oil, gas, logging, fracking and tar sands exploitation in our homeland, my community of Little Buffalo decided to forge a new future and become powered by the sun.