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Greenpeace: Timber laundering rampant Brazilian Amazon
2014-05-18 10:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A two-year investigation by Greenpeace has revealed the extent of timber laundering in two major Brazilian Amazon states: Pará and Mato Grosso. The report, published last week, suggests that fraud is widespread in the Brazilian timber industry. Loggers are using loopholes and outright deception to game regulations that aim to reduce the environmental impact of timber extraction. "The timber market is fraught with illegality, and predatory logging is destroying the Amazon bit by bit," said the...
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Greenpeace reveals illegal Amazon logging activities
2014-05-17 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Greenpeace has revealed the findings of an investigation on timber sourced from the Brazilian Amazon, exposing illegal activities covered up with fake documents and paperwork. Around two-thirds of illegally sourced timber is exported to Europe and the US. According to the organisation, up to 78% of the timber sourced in the Brazilian state of Par is estimated to be illegal, meaning that loggers and sawmills use holes in the system to cover illegal activities with fake paperwork, scams and false...
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Greenpeace Tries to Block First Shipment of Arctic Oil
2014-05-02 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Greenpeace activists try to stop the shipment of Arctic oil, get arrested This past May 1, a total of 31 members of environmental group Greenpeace were taken into custody by the Dutch police. As was the case last year, when 30 greenheads with the organization were put behind bars in Russia, the 31 activists arrested yesterday were protesting the oil industry. More precisely, they were harassing a Russian tanker dubbed Mikhail Ulyanov and trying to keep it from delivering oil to the European...
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Greenpeace ship captain arrested in Arctic oil protest
2014-05-01 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Dutch police have arrested the captain of a Greenpeace vessel, after activists tried to stop a Russian tanker delivering oil controversially drilled from the Arctic to a port in Rotterdam. The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior blocked the Mikhail Ulyanov tanker as it attempted to moor in the Dutch citys harbour early on Thursday morning. Police quickly boarded the vessel and arrested around 30 activists, but were unable to move the Warrior for around two hours. By this time, activists on smaller...
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Greenpeace Attempts To Block Russian Oil Tanker
2014-05-01 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Dutch police say they detained 31 Greenpeace activists Thursday as they attempted to prevent a Russian tanker carrying the first oil produced by a new offshore platform in the Arctic Ocean from mooring at Rotterdam Port. The environmental group sent two ships, plus a fleet of rubber rafts, paragliders and activists on shore, to meet the Mikhail Ulyanov, a tanker chartered by Russia's state-controlled oil company, Gazprom OAO. Activists painted the words "No Arctic Oil" in white letters on the hull...
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