Russia Set To Become World-Class Nuclear Dump
16 November 2010 04:47
...say the reality is clear - Russia is set to become an international radioactive garbage dump. Vladimir Chubrov is from Greenpeace : "Billions of dollars will go into the pockets of bureaucrats but the real Russian people will be at a massively increased risk...
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Violent Clashes Over Nuclear Train In Germany
7 November 2010 08:43
...issue. Activists claim neither its containers nor its destination, in Gorleben in the north of the country, are safe. Greenpeace says the site, in a disused salt mine, would be unsafe over the long term. Around 17,000 police officers are involved in the security...
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Red Sludge Disaster Claims Fifth Victim
8 October 2010 10:02
...this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. Greenpeace are warning the waste contains "surprisingly high" levels of arsenic and mercury, according to reports. The figures have been...
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Last Year Ranks Among Hottest on Record
2 December 2010 10:43
A Russian firefighter during last summer's heat wave CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- A scorching summer that killed thousands in Russia and exceptionally mild winters in the Arctic were among extreme weather events that have put 2010 on track to be one of the
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Charities win tax ruling on lobbying
1 December 2010 02:38
LOBBY groups that campaign against government policy will be entitled to claim charity status after a court ruling yesterday. The court swept aside Australian Taxation Office restrictions on charities' advocacy work, pronouncing that such campaigning
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Greenpeace Sues Chemical Companies, Alleging Corporate Espionage
29 November 2010 11:12
Environmental organization Greenpeace has accused two large chemical companies of using illegal tactics, including breaking into Greenpeace headquarters, to gather information about the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. In a lawsuit filed in Washington,
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Greenpeace Picture Gallery
8 October 2010 12:33
Greenpeace analytical chemist Herwig Schuster (L) talks to Greenpeace spokeswoman Melanie Beran during a press conference on October 8, 2010 in Vienna. Greenpeace is presenting today the first results of the analysis after the Hungary's toxic sludge leak that killed four people, as fears increased over the threat to marine life in Europe's second longest river Danube.
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Greenpeace analytical chemist Herwig Schuster (L) talks to Greenpeace spokeswoman Melanie Beran during a press conference on October 8, 2010 in Vienna. Greenpeace is presenting today the first results of the analysis after the Hungary's toxic sludge leak that killed four people, as fears increased over the threat to marine life in Europe's second longest river Danube.
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Greenpeace activists protest at the entrance of the Japanese embassy in Mexico City, against the arrest of Japanese Greenpeace members Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki and asking for justice for whales, on February 20, 2009. Greenpeace is focusing on defending its two activists who are set to go on trial on charges of stealing whale meat as part of a bid to expose alleged corruption involving whalers.
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Greenpeace activists protest at the entrance of the Japanese embassy in Mexico City, against the arrest of Japanese Greenpeace members Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki and asking for justice for whales, on February 20, 2009. Greenpeace is focusing on defending its two activists who are set to go on trial on charges of stealing whale meat as part of a bid to expose alleged corruption involving whalers.
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Greenpeace activists protest at the entrance of the Japanese embassy in Mexico City, against the arrest of Japanese Greenpeace members Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki and asking for justice for whales, on February 20, 2009. Greenpeace is focusing on defending its two activists who are set to go on trial on charges of stealing whale meat as part of a bid to expose alleged corruption involving whalers.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace hold banners reading in French 'Do you know what your bank does with your money', in front of a French bank BNP, on October 23, 2010 in Nice southeastern France. With this action, Greenpeace activists want to denounce the financing by French bank BNP Paribas of nuclear projects.
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Greenpeace spokeswoman Melanie Beran is pictured during a press conference on October 8, 2010 in Vienna. Greenpeace is presenting today the first results of the analysis after the Hungary's toxic sludge leak that killed four people, as fears increased over the threat to marine life in Europe's second longest river Danube.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace demonstrate, in front of a French bank BNP, on October 23, 2010 in Nice southeastern France. With this action, Greenpeace activists want to denounce the financing by French bank BNP Paribas of nuclear projects.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace demonstrate, in front of a French bank BNP, on October 23, 2010 in Nice southeastern France. With this action, Greenpeace activists want to denounce the financing by French bank BNP Paribas of nuclear projects.
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Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigners stage a protest outside the Legislative Council (LEGCO) building in Hong Kong on November 26, 2010. Greenpeace are urging the government to set aside nuclear expansion plans, saying energy saving initiatives should take priority in the effort to reduce emissions.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace hold placard reading in French 'Do you know what your bank does with your money', in front of a French bank BNP, on October 23, 2010 in Nice southeastern France. With this action, Greenpeace activists want to denounce the financing by French bank BNP Paribas of nuclear projects.
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Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigners stage a protest outside the Legislative Council (LEGCO) building in Hong Kong on November 26, 2010. Greenpeace are urging the government to set aside nuclear expansion plans, saying energy saving initiatives should take priority in the effort to reduce emissions.
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Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigners stage a protest outside the Legislative Council (LEGCO) building in Hong Kong on November 26, 2010. Greenpeace are urging the government to set aside nuclear expansion plans, saying energy saving initiatives should take priority in the effort to reduce emissions.
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Greenpeace analytical chemist Herwig Schuster speaks during a press conference on October 8, 2010 in Vienna. Greenpeace is presenting today the first results of the analysis after the Hungary's toxic sludge leak that killed four people, as fears increased over the threat to marine life in Europe's second longest river Danube.
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Environmental activist from Greenpeace holds banners reading in French 'Do you know what your bank does with your money', in front of a French bank BNP, on October 23, 2010 in Nice southeastern France. With this action, Greenpeace activists want to denounce the financing by French bank BNP Paribas of nuclear projects.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace demonstrate, in front of a French bank BNP, on October 23, 2010 in Nice southeastern France. With this action, Greenpeace activists want to denounce the financing by French bank BNP Paribas of nuclear projects.
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Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigners stage a protest outside the Legislative Council (LEGCO) building in Hong Kong on November 26, 2010. Greenpeace are urging the government to set aside nuclear expansion plans, saying energy saving initiatives should take priority in the effort to reduce emissions.
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Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigners stage a protest outside the Legislative Council (LEGCO) building in Hong Kong on November 26, 2010. Greenpeace are urging the government to set aside nuclear expansion plans, saying energy saving initiatives should take priority in the effort to reduce emissions.
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Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigners stage a protest outside the Legislative Council (LEGCO) building in Hong Kong on November 26, 2010. Greenpeace are urging the government to set aside nuclear expansion plans, saying energy saving initiatives should take priority in the effort to reduce emissions.
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Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigners stage a protest outside the Legislative Council (LEGCO) building in Hong Kong on November 26, 2010. Greenpeace are urging the government to set aside nuclear expansion plans, saying energy saving initiatives should take priority in the effort to reduce emissions.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace hold banners reading in French 'Do you know what your bank does with your money', in front of a French bank BNP, on October 23, 2010 in Nice southeastern France. With this action, Greenpeace activists want to denounce the financing by French bank BNP Paribas of nuclear projects.
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Greenpeace activists protest in front of Japanese Embassy in Ankara on September 6, 2010, hours after a Japanese court sentenced two Greenpeace activists to suspended one-year jail terms for stealing a box of whale meat that the group said was proof of embezzlement in state-run 'research whaling'. Junichi Sato, 33, and Toru Suzuki, 43, were convicted of theft and trespass by the Aomori district court and were each sentenced to one-year jail terms, which were suspended for three years.
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Greenpeace activists hold a banner during a protest demanding justice for whales and their defenders on World Oceans Day in New Delhi on June 8, 2010. Greenpeace activists held a symbolic demonstration in support of Japan's 'Tokyo Two' undertrials at New Delhi's landmark 'Gyarah Murti (eleven statues)' sculpture, depicting the Dandi march led by Mahatma Gandhi against the oppressive British regime, to demand justive for Junich Sato and Toro Suzuki. The duo faces a possible jail term of up to ten years for exposing large scale embezzlement and theft in Japan's tax payer funded whaling programme.
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Greenpeace activists hold a banner during a protest demanding justice for whales and their defenders on World Oceans Day in New Delhi on June 8, 2010. Greenpeace activists held a symbolic demonstration in support of Japan's 'Tokyo Two' undertrials at New Delhi's landmark 'Gyarah Murti (eleven statues)' sculpture, depicting the Dandi march led by Mahatma Gandhi against the oppressive British regime, to demand justive for Junich Sato and Toro Suzuki. The duo faces a possible jail term of up to ten years for exposing large scale embezzlement and theft in Japan's tax payer funded whaling programme.
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An activist from Greenpeace sweeps the pavement during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, as the Greenpeace members covered their bodies with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Greenpeace activists gather around a giant model of an industrial fishing trawler on December 13, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a fishing trawler outside the EU Council building prior to an Agriculture ans Fisheries Council.
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Members of Greenpeace hold posters with images of crucified tails of whale to the flag of Norway during a protest in front of the embassy of Norway 07 February 2001 in Mexico City. The protest was against what Greenpeace calls the indiscriminate hunting of whales in Norway.
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An activist from Greenpeace sweeps the pavement during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, as the Greenpeace members covered their bodies with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Greenpeace activists gather around a giant model of an industrial fishing trawler on December 13, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a fishing trawler outside the EU Council building prior to an Agriculture ans Fisheries Council.
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Greenpeace activists gather around a giant model of an industrial fishing trawler on December 13, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a fishing trawler outside the EU Council building prior to an Agriculture ans Fisheries Council.
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Greenpeace activists gather around a giant model of an industrial fishing trawler on December 13, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a fishing trawler outside the EU Council building prior to an Agriculture ans Fisheries Council.
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Greenpeace activists gather around a giant model of an industrial fishing trawler on December 13, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a fishing trawler outside the EU Council building prior to an Agriculture ans Fisheries Council.
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An activist from Greenpeace poses during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, during which the Greenpeace members covered their bodies with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Greenpeace activists gather around a giant model of an industrial fishing trawler on December 13, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a fishing trawler outside the EU Council building prior to an Agriculture ans Fisheries Council.
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An activist from Greenpeace poses during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, during which the Greenpeace members covered their bodies with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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An activist from Greenpeace sweeps the pavement during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, as the Greenpeace members covered their bodies with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Greenpeace activists gather around a giant model of an industrial fishing trawler on December 13, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a fishing trawler outside the EU Council building prior to an Agriculture ans Fisheries Council.
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Greenpeace activists gather around a giant model of an industrial fishing trawler on December 13, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a fishing trawler outside the EU Council building prior to an Agriculture ans Fisheries Council.
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Greenpeace activists stand on December 13, 2010 in front of a giant model of an industrial fishing trawler. Greenpeace activists are symbolically decommissioning a fishing trawler outside the EU Coucil bulding before an EU Agriculture ans Fisheries Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
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An activist from Greenpeace sweeps the pavement during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, as the Greenpeace members covered their bodies with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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An activist from Greenpeace poses during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, during which the Greenpeace members covered their bodies with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Greenpeace activists cut the Castellana Avenue during a demonstration against nuclear waste storage on September 22, 2010 in Madrid. Thirteen Spanish towns have bid to host a major new nuclear waste storage site, a long-delayed project that is fiercely opposed by environmentalists.
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Greenpeace activists cut the Castellana Avenue during a demonstration against nuclear waste storage on September 22, 2010 in Madrid. Thirteen Spanish towns have bid to host a major new nuclear waste storage site, a long-delayed project that is fiercely opposed by environmentalists.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace pose during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in the southern city of Bordeaux, on October 2, 2010, with their bodies covered with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace pose during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, with their bodies covered with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace pose during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, with their bodies covered with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Greenpeace activists cut the Castellana Avenue during a demonstration against nuclear waste storage on September 22, 2010 in Madrid. Thirteen Spanish towns have bid to host a major new nuclear waste storage site, a long-delayed project that is fiercely opposed by environmentalists.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace pose during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in the southern city of Bordeaux, on October 2, 2010, with their bodies covered with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Greenpeace activists cut the Castellana Avenue during a demonstration against nuclear waste storage on September 22, 2010 in Madrid. Thirteen Spanish towns have bid to host a major new nuclear waste storage site, a long-delayed project that is fiercely opposed by environmentalists.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace pose during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in the southern city of Bordeaux, on October 2, 2010, with their bodies covered with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
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Environmental activists from Greenpeace pose during a demonstration entitled 'Petrole mob' (Oil mob) in Paris, on October 2, 2010, with their bodies covered with chocolate to symbolize the countries dependance on oil and to protest against plans of extraction of unconventional oil as oil-bearing sands and deep-water drillings.
