REVEALED: True cost of coal in China
September 30, 2010 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter
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China’s coal-fired power plants dump enough toxic coal ash to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every two and a half minutes. Our latest report ‘The True Cost of Coal: An Investigation into Coal Ash in China’ reveals that coal ash has now become China’s largest single source of solid waste, due to the country’s heavy reliance on coal.
via REVEALED: True cost of coal in China | Greenpeace International.
Golden Agri refutes Greenpeace’s claims of harming the environment
August 1, 2010 by green team
Filed under Business, Green Reporter
It says contrary to Greenpeace’s claims, there are no orang utan habitats in SMART’s concession area in P-T Bangun Nusa Mandiri.
SMART also reiterates that before developing land, it conducts the necessary environmental assessments.
With regard to concession areas in the Papua province, SMART says it only manages a total of about 13,000 hectares, not 1 million hectares as stated by Greenpeace.
via Channel NewsAsia
Indonesia forests being ‘destroyed’
July 8, 2010 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter
In a report on Tuesday, Greenpeace said it had confidential documents from a Sinar Mas subsidiary, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), suggesting that the company did not intend to fulfil a promise to source its wood from plantations alone after 2009.
“From analysis of Indonesian government and confidential Sinar Mas maps and data, as well as on-the-ground investigations … APP continues to acquire and destroy rainforest and peatland to feed its two pulp mills in Sumatra,” the environmental group said in the report, referring to the once forest-clad western Indonesian island.
Read more at Al Jazeera English.
You-turn the earth: demand a pact on climate change
October 28, 2009 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter
Action-Pact is organized by Greenpeace, and asks for your help in putting together an “Action-Pact” for the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen this December. Each virtual package will contain your demands for a pact on climate change, and, if you have time, a brilliant slogan.
The virtual package will be delivered by a quirky cardboard cartoon character with YOUR face on it. The best slogan will appear on a Greenpeace banner and the characters will be part of a virtual video march.
See Action-Pact.org to get started!
