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Baffin Bay, Greenland – Campaigners have evaded a huge military security operation to scale a controversial oil rig in the freezing seas off Greenland. At dawn this morning four expert climbers in inflatable speedboats dodged Danish Navy commandos before climbing up the inside of the rig and hanging from it in tents suspended Read More… Climbers Scale Rig in Freezing Seas as Energy Giants Eye Arctic Oil Rush Jakarta, Indonesia, In a humiliating blow to Sinar Mas, independent auditors have asked the group publicly correct its interpretation of their recently published survey of Sinar Mas operations. In the process, the auditors confirmed Greenpeace claims that Sinar Mas is responsible for rainforest and peatland destruction. Published today, the “clarification” also shows Read More… Exposed: Sinar Mas Caught Misleading Stock Exchange and Customers On August 12th 2010, Greenpeace launched a three-month ship expedition to support independent research into the impacts of the Gulf oil disaster on marine life, as well as researching the unique environments and marine life that are at risk. The ship departs from St. Petersburg, Florida tomorrow and will visit the Florida Keys and Read More… Greenpeace Launches Three-Month Expedition to Investigate Oil Disaster Impacts to Gulf of Mexico August 10th 2010 — Greenpeace today responded to notorious rainforest destroyer Sinar Mas’ self-styled ‘verification exercise’: “The Sinar Mas audit largely confirms Greenpeace findings. It shows that Sinar Mas has been clearing forests and peat lands. Also it confirms that the company has been operating without the necessary permits and has been clearing Read More… Greenpeace Response to Sinar Mas “Verification Exercise” Greenpeace is using legal means to expose the true scale of the impact and the real causes of the Gulf oil disaster, describing links between government and the oil industry as critical. Greenpeace submitted 27 separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to multiple federal government agencies and two Public Records Act requests to Read More… Government Industry Links and Hidden Causes of Gulf Disaster to be Exposed Through Law A new Greenpeace investigation into the operations of Sinar Mas, one the most notorious destroyers of Indonesia’s rainforests, reveals how it is continuing to break its own environmental commitments on protecting forests and peatland. Publishing new photographic evidence, aerial monitoring and field analysis [1], Greenpeace International today details how the Sinar Mas group continues Read More… Rainforest Destroyer Caught On July 28th, the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee voted to allow high risk chemical plants to continue to use unsafe chemical processes and to not force chemical plants identified as high risk to evaluate safer chemical processes. Over 110 million Americans could remain at risk of chemical disasters for the next three Read More… Homeland Security Fails To Remove Crosshairs From The Nation’s Chemical Security Plants On July 22nd, Facebook announced that it has a population larger than the United States, Mexico, and Canada, combined, but it remains unknown what the popular social networking site will do in regard to its carbon footprint as it continues to expand. Greenpeace has challenged Facebook to commit to going coal free, but its new Read More… Will Facebook Disclose An Energy Plan? Following the news that for now the well has been capped and oil is no longer flowing into the Gulf, Greenpeace has announced that the Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace ship, will be launching a three-month expedition to document the true impacts of the disaster on Gulf marine life as well as researching the unique Read More… Greenpeace Begins Independent Assessment of Gulf Impacts with Three-Month Ship Tour July 15th, 2010 - Greenpeace activists blocked a barge carrying thousands of cubic metres of timber from the rainforests of the Kampar Peninsula in Sumatra. The activists unfurled a banner reading ‘APRIL stop trashing our future’ and urged pulp and paper company APRIL and the Indonesian government to stop forest destruction. Around 25 activists stopped Read More… Greenpeace Halts Rainforest Destruction in Kampar Again by Pulp and Paper Giant APRIL |
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