Fourteen activists including groundWork‘s Bobby Peek, Earthlife’s Makoma Lekalakala and Greenpeace Africa‘s Melita Steele have been arrested while protesting at the Eskom megawatt park. Today, three campaigning organizations joined forces to put South Africa’s energy utility, Eskom, under “new management.” Activists confronted […]
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Energy Industry Crackdown, Global Protest Frackdown
Yesterday, while Shell announced suing Greenpeace International in an attempt to have the organization banned from protest within 500 meters of any Shell property in the Netherlands, New York activist Susan Walker was sentenced to 15 days in jail after she refused […]
Continue readingWave of protests “sink” super trawlers off the coast of Tasmania
What started as a ripple of concern over the pending arrival of a super trawler to be based in Devonport, Tasmania, soon became “a wave of outrage,” according to an article today in the Mercury. Tasmanian fishermen started the murmur of discontent […]
Continue readingPolar Bear gets popped blocking Gazprom HQ
Moscow police have arrested 10 environmental activists, including four dressed in polar bear costumes, who were protesting outside the main office of Gazprom, the Russian oil and natural gas giant. The protest Wednesday by members of Greenpeace called upon Gazprom to halt […]
Continue readingActivists on Occupied Russian Arctic Oil Rig Hit with Water Cannon
Six activists with Greenpeace International have occupied a Russian oil rig to protest drilling in the Arctic. The rig belongs to the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom, which is set to become the first company to produce Arctic oil through drilling operations […]
Continue readingProminent Russian environmentalist sentenced in Pussy Riot trial
One member of the punk trio, Maria Alekhina, has a history of involvement with environmental , working with Greenpeace Russia, and animal liberation activism (she has a support page demanding vegan food in prison). During trial, prosecutors reportedly tried to humiliate her […]
Continue readingGreenpeace activists shut down 74 UK Shell petrol stations
Greenpeace activists shut down 74 Shell petrol stations in Edinburgh and London in a protest against the company’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic that saw 24 campaigners arrested on Monday. The campaigners are attempting to shut off petrol to […]
Continue readingActivists Detained Over Reef Protest
Police detained several environmental activists after they painted a sign on the side of a coal ship in Gladstone Harbour in central Queensland, Australia, saying the Great Barrier Reef is in danger. About a dozen Anti-Coal activists led by Greenpeace staged a […]
Continue readingBig Northern Greenwash: Who Speaks for the Trees?
So a new management deal has been signed for Canada’s Boreal Forest. It’s being hailed as the largest forest deal in the history of the world. You can see the map above: orange will be ‘protected’, gray areas will not. The fragmentation […]
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