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Guest Blog: Action on plastics shouldn’t make life suck for disabled people
Greenpeace have been campaigning to raise awareness of the harmful impact plastics have on our oceans for several years: from microbeads to single-use plastics such as bottles, bags and straws. Nonetheless, it’s fair to say that the horrifying scenes captured by Sir David Attenborough’s ‘Blue Planet 2’ showcased the hazards faced by marine life, and…
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40 GROUPS IN QUEBEC TELL JUSTIN TRUDEAU
DO NOT TURN THE KINDER MORGAN PIPELINE INTO YOUR POLITICAL LEGACY These groups, many of which were instrumental in the movement against Energy East in the province of Quebec over…
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Share your pics of ridiculous packaging!
Have you ever looked around - at the supermarket, or coffee shop, or local mall - and noticed how much excessive plastic there is? Once you start looking for it, it’s EVERYWHERE. And it’s a huge problem.
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Faces of Greenpeace: Meet the people behind our resistance
Greenpeace has been at the heart of the environmental movement on the Pacific coast, in Canada and around the world for more than 40 years.
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LIVE UPDATES! Indigenous leaders and supporters to take bold action against Kinder Morgan pipeline
Today, Indigenous leaders are leading community members in ceremony and action at Kinder Morgan’s construction site on Burnaby Mountain in Vancouver, on Canada's Pacific Coast. We'll be live blogging what happens here!
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Greenpeace calls out Minister Blanchette’s failure on caribou outside Quebec legislature
Early this morning, a group of Greenpeace activists visited Quebec’s legislature to denounce the failure of the Minister of Forests, Fauna and Parks, Luc Blanchette, to protect caribou. We brought a life-size “caribou coffin” and banner reading: No real action, No caribou. We also brought with us the voices of over 23,000 of you who…
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10,000 People stand strong to protect land and water from Kinder Morgan
What do ten thousand people gathering to stand with Indigenous Peoples to protect land, rivers, streams and the Pacific Ocean from a dirty oil pipeline look like?
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Growing GHGs from oil industry put Canadian climate goal further out of reach: Environment Canada
The Canadian government has filed a report with the United Nations that shows that the gap between the greenhouse gas reductions we promised to make under the Paris climate agreement and where current and planned policies will get us has grown by 50 percent, relative to what the government was saying in 2016.
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Greenpeace heads to Supreme Court to defend polluter pay principle
Oil company polluters, not taxpayers and farmers, should bear responsibility for cleaning up the leftover toxic sites oil companies leave behind.
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BC finds Kinder Morgan’s Achilles Heel
The provincial government in British Columbia threw another wrench in Kinder Morgan’s plans to build a new tar sands pipeline this week. On Tuesday, it announced proposed new regulations to…