Alright DFO take notice. Marine reserves are being created and it isn’t taking some governments over a decade to do. On April fools day, leaving many oceans activists wondering if it was a sick joke, the UK government established the WORLD’S LARGEST MARINE RESERVE in the British Indian Ocean Territory around the Chagos Islands! Read more about the creation and protection of this area and Greenpeace’s role.

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Greenpeace activists build a rainforest in downtown Vancouver to protest Nestlé's use of palm oil from Indonesian rainforest destruction

Nestlé: Give the orangutans a break already

I just got off the phone with a representative at Nestlé’s Canadian headquarters in Toronto. I told them who I was, that I’ve been known to eat a chocolate bar or two, and that I’m very concerned they are still using palm oil that comes from rainforest destruction in Indonesia in their food products. I was standing in a makeshift phone booth in downtown Vancouver when I made this call.

The phone booth is part of an activity where Greenpeace activists constructed new “habitat” for the endangered orangutan. The rainforest symbolically replaces the habitat that is destroyed when companies like Sinar Mas, who supply Nestlé with palm oil, destroy pristine rainforest to convert it into palm oil plantations. Right now, the activists have surrounded the rainforest and are blocking anyone, specifically our mock Nestlé employee, from cutting it down.

Activists also visited Nestlé …

We’re stepping up support for the Kit Kat campaign in Canada and want your help!

180,000 emails to Nestlé have not been enough to remove irresponsibly produced palm oil from their supply chain, so we’re going to try the telephone.

We’re asking Canadians to call Nestlé at 1-800-387-4636 to voice their concern.

Feel free to use the talking points below:

I am calling because I am concerned about the palm oil Nestlé buys to make a variety of its products, including Kit Kat. Production of this palm oil often comes from the destruction of rainforests and peatland in Indonesia, accelerating climate change and destroying the home of the endangered orangutan. I’ve already emailed Nestlé’s CEO Paul Bulcke asking for immediate action on this, but Nestlé is still failing to deal with the problem. Nestlé is not truly committed to phasing out palm oil from rainforest destruction.
Despite Nestlé suspending direct contracts with Sinar Mas, a company engaged in the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests, it still uses Sinar Mas palm oil from third party suppliers such as Cargill.
It is not acceptable for Nestlé to hand responsibility for the issue to their suppliers. Companies like Sinar Mas are …

Greenpeace Norway and Greenpeace Canada stage a demonstration at the Statoil headquarters. ©Greenpeace/Jessica Wilson

It’s been nearly a year since I first landed in Oslo to meet my colleagues from Greenpeace Norway and set off on a Scandinavian tour with Andrew Nikiforuk, Dr. John O’Connor and Greenpeace Canada climate & energy campaigner Melina Laboucan-Massimo. The tour of Norway, Sweden and Denmark culminated at last year’s Statoil AGM, where Greenpeace had tabled a motion that Statoil withdraw completely from the tar sands.

It was a ballsy motion then, when few Scandinavians even knew about the tar sands. Now, a year later, we’re returning with a similar motion – just as ballsy, just as ambitious. But this time, we believe we have public opinion on our side. This time, we’re asking Norwegians to stand with us; to buy shares in their two-thirds publicly-owned energy company and join us …

This blog is by Dr.Paul Johnston, Principal Scientist, Greenpeace Research Laboratories University of Exeter…

I’ve been opposed to incineration as a method of waste disposal for over 20 years and, I was looking forward to reading Catherine Porter’s article “Will burning Durham’s garbage make us sick? (Toronto Star, April 5, 2010), particularly as we had a long conversation on the issue a few weeks prior to the publishing of the article. However, it appears that my comments to the author have been completely misunderstood and the article therefore, misrepresents Greenpeace’s position on incineration.

Municipal waste management in Canada remains a major problem.

Greenpeace has not changed its stand on incineration; we always have been and continue to be opposed to incineration as a method of waste disposal. Let me explain, in my quote in the article on the “conventional wisdom” that modern incinerators were considered ’safe’ as a result of emissions control measures, I was referring to the views increasingly held by many in public office. This view is increasingly often as a result of …