09 December 2008
Greenpeace Canada’s executive director presented himself at the Japanese embassy this morning in hopes of being arrested as a co-defendant to two activists, dubbed the “Tokyo Two,” facing 10 years in prison for exposing the embezzlement of whale meat in Japan.
03 December 2008
Greenpeace says it will use its influence to marshal international support at the United Nations climate change conference in Poznan, Poland to stop the development of Alberta’s tar sands that is closely linked with Canada’s refusal to honour commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
02 December 2008
Nearly two-thirds of Canadians want to see Canada take action to tackle global warming despite the economic crisis, according to new polling released today by four Canadian observer organizations at the UN climate talks in Poznan, Poland.
01 December 2008
A new report commissioned by Greenpeace warns that Canada’s CANDU-6 nuclear reactor, designed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in the 1970s, is unsafe and too dangerous to build according to modern regulatory standards.
24 November 2008
Canada's federal and Alberta provincial
governments ignored the findings of a joint task force and deceived the
public when they committed $2.5 billion to carbon capture and storage (CCS)
technology, suggests a briefing note to the report obtained by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation.
21 November 2008
Greenpeace congratulates RONA (TSX:RON) for instituting new measures that will help conserve Canada’s forests. The home improvement chain today announced the adoption of their first procurement policy for wood products that Greenpeace believes positions the company as a leader within the lumber and home renovation sector on forest sustainability.
17 November 2008
The Ontario government has approved a controversial logging plan that will destroy critical woodland caribou habitat and undermine key conservation commitments by Premier McGuinty, say Greenpeace and Earthroots. Every tree logged in the Ogoki forest will be pulped to make toilet paper, junk mail, and other disposable paper products.
17 November 2008
Canada plays a key role in protecting the bluefin tuna, but needs to take a stronger position at the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) which opens today in Marrakech, says Greenpeace Canada.
13 November 2008
Greenpeace opened its first office in Africa today, in Johannesburg, announcing a long-term commitment
to building a strong presence in Africa dedicated to tackling the most
urgent environmental problems facing the continent - climate change,
deforestation and overfishing.
12 November 2008
Energy Minister George Smitherman's goal of increasing the amount of green energy in the province's electricity plan can only be met by replacing ageing nuclear stations with new green sources of energy over the next decade, says a Pembina Institute report released by a coalition of environmental groups today.
