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Greenpeace reveals Chinese state coal company's ruthless water grab
2013-07-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: A state-owned Chinese coal company is overexploiting groundwater and illegally dumping toxic industrial wastewater, highlighting the need to curb the country's burgeoning coal industry, Greenpeace East Asia has revealed. In the report 'Thirsty Coal 2' [1], Greenpeace East Asia reveals that the Shenhua Group, the world's biggest coal producer by volume, is exploiting water resources in Inner Mongolia at a shocking scale. Shenhua's operations have sparked social unrest and caused severe ecological...
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Greenpeace Save the Arctic activist: 'Shell is in the shadow of the Shard'
2013-07-16 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "I never felt scared, not even once. It wasn't until we were particularly high up it hit me, when we could see how close we were to the planes." Victoria Henry is at Mile End Climbing Wall, three days after she scaled the Shard, Europe's tallest building, for Greenpeace's Save the Arctic campaign. She's waiting to start her first indoor climbing session since scaling the tallest building in London, which seems ridiculously easy in comparison. As we sit in the reception, every person who walks in...
Greenpeace activists break into EDF nuclear power plant in France - video
2013-07-15 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Footage released by Greenpeace shows anti-nuclear slogans projected onto the walls of the Tricastin nuclear power plant in south-east France. More than 20 activists broke into the site at dusk on Sunday, one of the most important nuclear sites in France. EDF says the protesters did not get access to the site's two nuclear reactors and had no impact on safety
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Greenpeace activists break into French nuclear plant
2013-07-15 09:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Around 30 Greenpeace activists climbed fences to break into an EDF nuclear power plant in southern France at dawn on Monday, saying they wanted to expose security flaws and demand its closure. The activists, dressed in red, said they reached the walls of two reactors at the Tricastin plant, one of France's oldest. EDF denied they had got into any "sensitive areas" and said production was not affected. Interior Minister Manuel Valls called for an investigation into the intrusion which raised...
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The Shard protest isn't just about the Arctic: it's a victory for women, says Greenpeace
2013-07-11 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: It was going to happen eventually. Attempting to climb the tallest building in Britain must be on the to-do lists of all avid climbers in Britain, and the world for that matter. That it is six women who are climbing the Shard in protest at oil and gas drilling in the Arctic today is not insignificant. Why six women? Why not a mixture of men and women, or - as many people might have been forgiven for assuming - six men? "Why not women? These are the people who discussed it and up for doing it,"...
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