Following the news that the Permanent Participants of the Arctic Council have issued a letter to the member states demanding stronger action on climate change, Greenpeace Canada Arctic campaigner Farrah Khan said: “We applaud and support the initiative of the Arctic Council’s Permanent Participants who are demanding action over mere rhetoric from Arctic states, and … Read more
As thousands of people take to the streets in downtown Manhattan, Paris and Rio de Janeiro to join the People’s Climate March, Greenpeace Canada staff and volunteers are in New York carrying a 1.5 x 4 meter banner with the message “We stand with Clyde River” written both in Inuktitut and English. Speaking from Manhattan, … Read more
More than 300 days after it was illegally boarded following a peaceful protest against Arctic oil drilling, the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has departed Murmansk, Russia en route for its home port of Amsterdam. The icebreaker has been held in custody since the ‘Arctic 30’ were apprehended on September 19th, 2013. On June 6th, 2014, Russia’s Investigative Committee … Read more
In response to recent criticisms of Greenpeace by Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq (Nunavut) at the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Greenpeace Arctic Campaigner Farrah Khan said: “Greenpeace Canada has been invited to support the community of Clyde River in its opposition to seismic testing in Baffin Bay, and we have agreed to offer that … Read more
Greenpeace has launched a new global campaign targeting the world’s biggest toy company, LEGO. The campaign will mobilize more than five million Arctic defenders and thousands of activists to take creative action in six continents as part of the campaign. There have already been high-profile protests at LEGOLAND in the UK. In a new report Greenpeace accuses … Read more
In response to the decision by the federal government to approve Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline, Mike Hudema, climate and energy campaign campaigner for Greenpeace Canada, said: “With today’s approval Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his cabinet have ignored the voices of the vast majority of British Columbians and the rights of over … Read more
Greenpeace activists from 12 countries blocked two separate oil rigs destined to drill in the Arctic ocean in the early hours of Tuesday. The environmental group said that the threat to the rapidly melting Arctic from a group of international oil companies requires ‘a truly global response’. A group of 30 activists in the Dutch … Read more
In response to Transport Minister Lisa Raitt’s (Halton, Ont.) announcement on oil-by-rail safety, Greenpeace Canada Climate and Energy campaign coordinator Keith Stewart said: “The government should ban all DOT-111 tanker cars from transporting oil starting today, because every day that they are on the rails is a roll of the dice with the odds weighted in favour … Read more
Greenpeace Canada has asked Elections Canada to investigate whether the Conservative Party is colluding with the Ethical Oil Institute in violation of the measures in the Canada Elections Act that prohibit donations to federal political parties from corporations. “We have compiled some very troubling evidence on the relationship between Ethical Oil and the Conservative Party that … Read more
Early March 18th, 10 Greenpeace activists and volunteers transformed the iconic Mount Royal, Que., Cross into immense scales of justice representing the imbalance between the destructive practices of Canada’s largest logging company, Resolute Forest Products, and the defenseless Boreal Forest. Two giant scales were suspended from the arms of the cross: the heavy side with Resolute’s … Read more
