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Following Arrest, Greenpeace Director Banned From Greenland

2:29 pm in activism, Business & Politics, energy, greenland, greenpeace by TreeHugger

Kumi Naidoo photo Image: Donostia Kultura via flickr Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, arrested last week after scaling a Cairn Energy platform off the coast of Greenland, is now banned for a year from the country entirely....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Big Mistake: Hiring "Greenpeace Co-Founder" Patrick Moore To Peddle Vinyl Windows

11:41 am in greenpeace, materials, pvc, vinyl by TreeHugger

vinyl windows photo Doors and Windows PVC (CNW Group/Canadian Plastics Industry Association) They look so cute on their polyurethane sofa, in front of the wall of vinyl windows and doors, in the stock shot from the Canadian vinyl industry. The Vinyl salesmen are also promoting Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who has been a serial shill for the nuclear industry ("there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power"), loggers of the Amazon rainforest ("All these save-the-forests arguments are based on bad science...") the lumber industry ("clear-cutting is good for forests"), pharmaceutic...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Libya Opens Up Waters For Bluefin Tuna Fishing, Threatening Species Recovery Plans

3:57 pm in Business & Politics, endangered species, fishing, france, greenpeace, libya, Travel & Nature, wwf by TreeHugger

cutting up bluefin tuna photo photo: Stewart Butterfield/Creative Commons Illegal fishing for bluefin tuna by exceeding quotas, under-reporting quotas, and outright pirate fishing mean Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin are highly endangered. Now, as NATO forces assist rebel forces in attempting to oust Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has opened up its waters to bluefin fishing. An...Read the full story on TreeHugger