Login / RegisterGreenpeace hangs banner from Lions Gate Bridge to protest tar sands
Greenpeace Canada activists staged a demonstration on the Lions Gate Bridge today (May 29) to protest oil pipelines to the B.C. coast.
Two demonstrators rappelled from the Vancouver bridge this morning, according to a news release from the environmental group.
The protesters deployed a banner that read: “save our coasts, no tar sands pipelines”.
Greenpeace Canada criticized the federal government for speeding up the approval process for pipeline projects and plans to weaken environmental law.
“There are better ways to create jobs and build an economy than supporting an industry that destroys land, rivers, communities, and drives climate change,’’ Greenpeace’s Melina Laboucan-Massimo said in the release.
“We need an end to tar sands pipelines that have no place in the green energy future Canada deserves.”
I would urge you to consider deeply the implications of their actions, in the hope that YOUR organisation is able to see beyond short term profits and recognise your responsibility to both current and future generations.
And maybe you could do the same as me and just close your HSBC account and move it to a bank which takes more seriously the ethical issues involved in their investment policy ~ and that won't be RBS or Barclays.
How else will they ever learn if we keep condoning what they do with our money?
I only regret I didn't study the ethical issues and draw the line when they gambled on food prices, which makes people go hungry in poor countries. Perhaps I should have.
I din't call it a day when corporate governance didn't make them more transparent about their lending and investment practices. I really should have taken more notice.
I should have picked up on them not paying their fair share of corporate tax ~ the most basic tenet of good citizenship and, supposedly, corporate governance ~ I don't have an excuse, I just didn't.
But when I found out they were financing Armageddon for profit, with my money, I decided what to do and wrote about the ethical issues here and said...
Uh, uh. No way.
Game over!
These useless scum should be chained to the anchor of a nuclear aircraft carrier and then dropped into deep water.
What did you do today that contributed to "society" ? What have you ever done ?
My guess knowing Greenpeace is that these guys got paid for this stunt more than you do in a month.
These people make a huge personal sacrifice and we are all indebted to them for their work.
Keep it up guys.
I feel humans should die for this.
Really? Then why do they keep showing up at my house with clipboards begging for money? Begging is still begging whether you're holding a clipboard or not.
Hippies need to stop trolling so hard and just take some acid and fuck in the mud like the old days.
I propose a carbon-negative Lions Gate Acid Mud Fuck Music Festival in 2013. Bring some mud, dump it on the bridge, take some acid, and mud-fuck to the sounds of Miles Davis & Ke$ha.
Let's make it happen comrades.