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Indonesia — Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction. Immigration official Jumanter Lubis said Saturday the activists violated their tourist visas and are being sent...
Tags: Greenpeace, Indonesian, greenpeace activists, Indonesia, Jakarta, Pelalawan, Riau, Kampar, Civil disobedience, Environmentalism, Social Issues, Environment, Pekanbaru, Strait of Malacca
Comr. Ari Rahman said the foreigners from Brazil, Finland, Germany, Spain, the Philippines and Thailand could be charged for violating their visas. “They entered Indonesia using temporary visas, therefore they cannot take part in a rally or other activity...
Tags: Greenpeace, greenpeace activists, Indonesia, Jakarta, Pelalawan, Riau, Visa, Civil disobedience, Environmentalism, Social Issues, Rapp, Peat, Kampar, Environment, Law Crime
All 16 Greenpeace activists charged with breaking into an oilsands extraction site in northern Alberta intend to plead not guilty, their lawyer says. Brian Beresh appeared in Sherwood Park Provincial Court Wednesday morning on behalf of the accused,...
Tags: Shell Canada Ltd., Sixteen Greenpeace, Fort Saskatchewan, Alta, greenpeace activists
One of Alberta's top lawyers is defending 16 Greenpeace activists facing charges after a protest at an oilsands upgrader near Edmonton. Brian Beresh calls recent remarks by Tory politicians "McCarthyism" and says they are the most blatant example of political...
Tags: Greenpeace, Alberta, Brian Beresh, Edmonton Journal, greenpeace activists
Sixteen Greenpeace activists were arrested early Sunday after spending 24 hours chained high up on smokestacks and a construction crane at a Shell Canada upgrader expansion site northeast of Edmonton. An expert in gender identity says the firing of a...
Tags: Canada Greenpeace, Shell Canada, Alberta Shell, greenpeace activists, Shell Scotford, Edmonton Sun, Fort Saskatchewan, Shell Upgrader, tar sands, greenpeace protesters
oilsands upgrader expansion site northeast of Edmonton. Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a Greenpeace activist who is outside the plant near Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., says the protesters have climbed the stacks and crane to unfurl banners which read "Climate...
Tags: Greenpeace, Alberta, greenpeace protesters, greenpeace activists, Shell Canada Ltd.
Hundreds of residents attended a public information session Tuesday night to ask questions and get more information on the proposed west LRT route via Stony Plain Road. About two dozen Greenpeace activists have stopped two conveyer belts that carry bitumen...
Tags: Greenpeace, Alberta, greenpeace activists, Suncor, tar sands, conveyor belts, Canada, northern alberta, greenpeace protesters, oilsands upgrader
While the oilsands industry tries to calm any frayed nerves after a splashy protest by Greenpeace at a Shell work site in northern Alberta, some analysts say the infiltration of such a huge operation should serve as a warning about the security of energy...
Tags: Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Greenpeace, Canada, Alberta, victoria times, Victoria, Muskeg River Mine, greenpeace activists, Edmonton
The group boarded the ship yesterday morning and attached themselves to its cranes, to protest the importation of palm kernel. Tauranga Area Commander Inspector Mike Clement says police had to use a crane and wire cage to cut the activists free late...
Tags: Greenpeace New Zealand, Simon Boxer of Greenpeace, Port of Tauranga, palm kernel, Fonterra, animal feed, greenpeace activists, hong kong, says police, ship east, New Zealand, Tauranga
Queensland by sending its largest vessel to block one of the world's biggest coal export ports. With leaders at the 40th annual Pacific Island Forum on their last day in Cairns, Greenpeace sent the Esperanza to block BHP Billiton Mitsubishi's Hay Point...
Tags: Greenpeace, coal terminal, hay point, Mackay, pacific islanders, Queensland, climate change, coal loader, greenpeace activists