July 18, 2007 at 11:46 am
· Filed under Green Peace News
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This week our activists, Junichi and Toru, spent two very long and intense days in court, defending the honourable actions they took to expose the corruption within Japan’s whaling industry. As the prosecution fumbled its desperate attempt to cast the ‘Tokyo Two’ as criminals, it became obvious that whaling really is on trial in Aomori.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
The Swiss Parliament has just extended its ban on the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) plants for three more years. Originally enacted in 2005, Switzerland will stay GE-free until at least 2013.
Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
The Tokyo Two trial continued today as a former whaler took to the stand and cast serious doubt on the veracity of the official investigation into our allegations of institutional embezzlement within Japan’s whaling industry. He further revealed how the whaling crew kept for themselves the meat from baby whales caught in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
So the world is finally waking up to the fact that the Bluefin tuna is in crisis. That’s nice. But decades of overfishing have pushed this majestic fish to the brink of extinction, which is not the point at which we should start thinking about conservation. The situation is so extreme that an international trade ban is now its only hope of survival.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Samsung still uses PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in all its products, except in a few models of mobile phone, MP3 players and some components, despite many promises to clean up. That’s why our activists stuck huge stickers on the Korean electronic giant’s Benelux headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday stating “Samsung = broken promises”.
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Just when we thought the threat to our environment couldn’t get any worse after world leaders failed to secure a deal to save the climate in Copenhagen - we’re now stunned to discover that the EU Commission is exploiting a ‘backdoor’ loophole to get genetically manipulated crops onto the supermarket shelves in the EU - and into our mouths.
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Facebook recently announced it will build a massive data centre in Oregon, U.S., packed full of the latest energy efficient computers to serve the hundreds of millions of friends connecting on their near-addictive social networking website. But the company plans to run the place on electricity made by burning coal–Yes, the dirtiest source of energy and largest single source of global warming pollution in the world.
Publ.Date : Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT
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