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ADVISORY: Welcoming Committee at the Premiers Meeting
Climate Advocates plan Welcoming Committee At First Ministers Meeting to call out failures on climate change and need for urgent action December 6, 2018 ( MONTRÉAL) – Climate action supporters,…
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PRESS RELEASES: No excuses : our climate is on fire and it’s time to act – Greenpeace
2 December 2018 (Toronto, CANADA) – The warning that we have just 12 years left to save the climate must now result at COP24 in a bold commitment to accelerated…
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STATEMENT: Ford government’s climate plan “major retreat” from needed action to fight climate change
29 November, 2018 (NOBLETON) In response to the Ford government announcing their climate plan, Keith Stewart, senior energy analyst at Greenpeace Canada, said: “What is being promised here is a…
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PRESS RELEASE: The Sortons la Caisse du carbone coalition uses circus arts at CDPQ to underline “the impossible balance” between fossil fuels and climate emergency
November 29, 2018 (MONTRÉAL) – Circus artists surrounded by hundreds of citizens are currently demonstrating at Place Riopelle in Montreal, in front of the head office of the Caisse de…
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STATEMENT: Newfoundland: Husky’s oil spill dispersed into the ocean and cannot be cleaned up.
November 21, 2018 (BRITISH-COLUMBIA) – It has been confirmed that the largest oil spill Newfoundland has witnessed two days ago cannot be cleaned up. In response to that, Mike Hudema,…
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Big oil should look in the mirror
The Globe’s recent editorial “Only new pipelines can close Canada’s yawning oil-price gap” leaves a few things out of the discussion. The first is who’s responsible. Oil companies have no…
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PIPELINE REPORT: Enbridge found to average one pipeline incident every 20 days
And new pipelines are not risk free November 14, 2018 (WASHINGTON, DC)– A new Greenpeace USA report “Dangerous Pipelines: Enbridge’s History of Spills Threatens Minnesota Waters”[1] found that from 2002 to…
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REACTIVE: TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project blocked
November 9, 2018 (ALBERTA) – In response to a federal judge ruling that the Trump administration violated bedrock U.S. environmental laws when approving a federal permit for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone…
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Finding peace in a time of despair
I have a confession. I’ve been really low these past weeks. I haven’t been able to shake a terrible cough. There’s just so much to feel sick about. The Kavanagh…
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Greenpeace recommendations on Ontario’s proposed Cap and Trade Cancellation Act
Greenpeace Canada submission to the Ontario Environmental Bill of Rights consultation on Bill 4: The Cap and Trade Cancellation Act Summary The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…