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Greenpeace alters Total billboards in Edmonton to be more honest

While Greenpeace activists took direct action yesterday at a French energy giant Total S.A. refinery in France to expose the climate crime of the tar sands, Greenpeace activists from Canada were busy altering two Total billboards in Edmonton to make them more accurately reflect the destruction that Total will inflict on Alberta’s environment.

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Greenpeace tar sands campaign expands to France with occupation of Total refinery

Greenpeace Canada’s tar sands campaign expanded into France early this morning when 30 Greenpeace activists entered Total’s refinery site in Gonfreville-l'Orcher, located close to Le Havre (Normandy), and hung three large banners.

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Prominent lawyer questions Stelmach's interference in judicial system

Prominent Alberta lawyer Brian Beresh raised concerns today that Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is unconstitutionally using his position as premier to exert political influence over the judicial system and undermine the right to fair trials for Greenpeace activists.

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Tar Sands Update

Nineteen Greenpeace activists have struck again. This time they have scaled three stacks at Shell’s operation in Fort Saskatchewan to expose more of the climate crimes of the tar sands and send a Climate SOS to the world. Activists from Canada, France, Brazil and Australia scaled the chimneys at an under-construction upgrader to stop more destruction before it can start. Two activists have been detained.

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Greenpeace strikes again: Activists occupy Shell upgrader expansion site in Fort Saskatchewan

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Significant failure in reporting tar sands greenhouse gas emissions

The extent of greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands operations is much worse than reported due to the failure of oil companies and governments to account for emissions from forest destruction, according to new research by Global Forest Watch Canada.

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Greenpeace takes action again, blocking Suncor tar sands operations International activists join Canadians in saying no to tar sands

Greenpeace activists are disrupting Suncor operations today in the heart of the tar sands north of Fort McMurray by stopping two bitumen conveyor belts to highlight the climate crime of tar sands operations.

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Tar Sands Update

Two days after ending its blockade at an open-pit mine in the heart of the tar sands, Greenpeace today placed the word “crime” and flags from 10 countries and the European Union at an area leased for mining to expose the international link to tar sands destruction.

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Activists block tar sands mining operation to send message to Obama and Harper: Climate leaders don’t buy tar sands

On the eve of the Harper-Obama meeting in Washington D.C., Greenpeace activists are locking down and blockading a giant dump truck and shovel at Shell’s massive Albian Sands open-pit mine in northern Alberta to send the message that the tar sands are a global climate crime that must be stopped.

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Alberta tar sands a major climate and economic threat:Greenpeace report

A new Greenpeace report details how the world’s addiction to oil is increasing the threat the Alberta tar sands pose to the global climate.

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