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BREAKING: Greenpeace Joins Cree Demonstration to Protect the Broadback Forest
September 10, 2018 (Matagami, Quebec) – Today the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi, joined by surrounding Cree communities and Greenpeace Canada are holding a demonstration at kilometer 105 of the…
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PRESS RELEASE: “Massive” court decision overturns Trans Mountain pipeline project approval, opportunity for Prime Minister Trudeau to drop pipeline plans
August 30, 2018 (Vancouver) – In response to today’s Federal Court of Appeal ruling related to the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline, Greenpeace Canada spokesperson Mike Hudema said: “This is a…
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With orca mother finally releasing her dead calf, Greenpeace Calls for greater efforts to protect endangered orcas
13 August 2018 (VANCOUVER) — More needs to be done to protect the already endangered Southern Resident orca population currently dealing with the death of the first baby born to…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace asks Chief Electoral Officer to investigate oil industry group’s ads during Ontario election campaign
August 1, 2018 (Toronto) — Greenpeace Canada and Democracy Watch have filed a formal request for an investigation by Ontario’s Chief Electoral Officer into whether an ad campaign by a…
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Québec Government to create more artificial forests at the detriment of protected areas
July 26, 2018 (VAL D’OR & MONTRÉAL) – Three environmental NGOs ring the alarm today with regards to the Wood Production Strategy to drastically increase the quantity of wood produced…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace Canada activists climbed Montreal’s Olympic Park tower to protest the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
Three days before the federal government is possibly slated to move forward with spending $4.5 billion of public money to buy the Trans Mountain and expansion infrastructure (TMX), activists called…
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MEDIA ADVISORY – HAPPENING NOW: Greenpeace Canada activists climb Montreal’s Olympic Park Tower to protest the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
19 July 2018 (MONTREAL) — Five Greenpeace Canada activists are climbing the Montreal Olympic Park tower to deploy a 10x25m banner on which can be read ‘Don’t dirty our money: Stop Pipelines’. This is an act of peaceful resistance to the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline and tanker project (TMX) which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intends…
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REACTIVE: Starbucks to remove fossil fuel derived plastic straws globally, debut new lids in Vancouver, Seattle
Vancouver, BC – Starbucks has announced today that it is removing fossil fuel derived plastic straws from its 28,000 stores globally by 2020, including its over 1000 stores in Canada.…
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PRESS RELEASE: Peaceful Greenpeace Canada blockade of oil tanker ends
4 July 2018 (UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES/VANCOUVER) — The Greenpeace Canada aerial bridge blockade in the path of the Trans Mountain tar sands oil tanker, Serene…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace Canada blockade reaches 30-hour mark as tanker pulls away from terminal
The protest against the TMX pipeline and planned sevenfold increase of tanker traffic, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s planned $4.5B buyout of the project, is entering its second…