Posts Tagged ‘Greenpeace’

• Greenpeace activists penetrates French nuclear plant, everyone relieved they weren’t terrorists

  The other day nine activists from Greenpeace managed to breach the security, infiltrate and hang a banner on one of the reactor buildings at a French nuclear site. According to media reports the police took “several hours” to respond to …

• French energy giant EDF fined for spying on Greenpeace

  Today a French court fined the largely state-owned energy giant EDF for €1,5 million for spying on Greenpeace campaigners. The French court found that EDF, which is hoping to build four nuclear reactors in the UK, had hired the security …

• Polish EU budget chief questions global warming and climate targets

  Janusz Lewandowsk, the Polish budget commissioner and chief architect of the EU’s forthcoming €130 multi-annual budget, is receiving strong criticism after expressing his doubts about global warming and the future emission policies of the EU. In an interview with a …

• Greenpeace shows the Dark Side of Volkswagen

  Greenpeace’s new corporate bad guy target is Europe’s biggest car company Volkswagen (VW) who is “spending millions” trying to stop stricter climate laws in Europe, the environmental organization claims. In a (cute) two-part spoof video (watch below) of Volkswagen’s ‘The …

• Heavy anti-nuclear protests in Germany

  These past days there have been heavy protests and blockades in Germany against a train carrying nuclear waste from France. Der Spiegel writes: "A train loaded with radioactive waste ended its controversial journey through Germany on Monday. Its path had …

• Saying “No!” to GMO in North America

  Photo credit: {Guerrilla Futures | Jason Tester} What are genetically modified foods? Biotechnology covers a broad range of technological “advancements” in food. These include the production of herbicides and pesticides, the use of antibiotics in dairy and meat, and of …

• Greenpeace activists protests against nuclear energy in Sweden

  Today Greenpeace activists protested against recent political plans to introduce new nuclear reactors in Sweden. Dressed as different renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and water, and with the help from a old fire truck the activists managed to …

• Greenpeace: Obama must shelve Arctic drilling plans, call for offshore moratorium

  In light of the ongoing offshore oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Greenpeace is demanding that President Barack Obama cancels Arctic drilling plans and calls for an offshore moratorium. The Deepwater Horizon accident has resulted in eleven lives …

• World leaders apologizes for climate failure in Copenhagen ads

  Our world leaders haven’t yet apologized for their climate failure in Copenhagen so Greenpeace and the global tcktcktck campaign have done it for them in these advertisements at the Copenhagen airport: “I’m sorry,” the text of the ad reads. “We …

• Obama says he will attend Copenhagen climate talks, also announces emissions reduction target

  Maybe he liked the city? Either way, President Barack Obama announced today that he will attend the climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December. The climate summit is held between 7-18 December and is the last chance we have to take …