Corporations Breaking Ranks on Climate
The largest industry trade group in the world is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a coalition of some 3 million leading corporations. This behemoth includes some of the most environmentally…
Forget the Black Gold, Just Clean Water Please
I’m sitting opposite the ‘Hotel Black Gold’ as the sun goes down over Lago Agrio and the streets start to hum with evening traffic, people returning home from work and…
Tar Sands Threaten Canada’s Rainforests
October 12-18 is World Rainforest Week. Every year, we take this opportunity to highlight rainforest destruction around the world – and what we are doing to stop it. And RAN…
Could Chevron Have a Change of Heart?
Fabiola is a beautiful thirteen-year old girl with sparkling bright eyes and an infectious smile. As we approached her house in the village of Taracoa in Ecuador, she marched right…
Agrofuels Are Not Low Carbon
Evidence is mounting about the social and environmental consequences of industrialized biofuels, aka agrofuels. A new paper from RAN concludes that we cannot grow our way out of our oil…
Big day for climate, Big new bill, and Big giveaways to coal, oil and loggers
With climate talks underway in Bangkok, Indigenous activists reviewing the text and engaged in the talks calling for no market-based REDD deal, Greenpeace activists blockading the tar sands in Alberta,…
Gord Nixon: Off Balance
RBC CEO Gord Nixon should be putting his bank’s money where his mouth is. Last week, he offered an incoherent defense of RBC’s “balanced approach” to the environment after RAN…
Harper Go Home.
Before dawn this morning, a small team of climate activists is rapelling from the US observation deck at Niagara Falls. Dangling hundreds of feet above the ground, they’re sending a…
RAN banner at Niagara Falls: We don’t want Canada’s dirty tar sands oil (follow @ranactions for updates)
The first photos are coming back from a RAN banner drop at Niagra Falls. From our press statement: Just one day before Prime Minister Harper’s first official visit with President…
Tar Sands Fighters to U.S. News Media: WAKE UP!
Over the past decade, as oil prices have risen ever higher, oil companies have begun a massive – and massively destructive – project of tearing Canada’s boreal forest to pieces,…
