Getting to Maybe with RBC
After a year of campaigning, this afternoon RBC and RAN finally sat opposite the same table to talk tar sands (here’s the background for those just tuning in). In RBC’s…
Group Therapy For Banks Hooked on Tar Sands
After more than a year of denial, RBC may be admitting that it has a problem in the tar sands. Tomorrow, we’ve learned that RBC will host a group of…
Three Actions Across Canada Launch Campaign Against RBC’s Olympic-Sized Greenwashing
So I really like the Winter Olympics – they really put the Summer Olympics to shame. Hockey, luge, figure skating, bobsledding, downhill skiing… and even that sport that combines cross-country…
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…
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,…
Mrs. Nixon, please help us stop the tar sands
In Toronto today, RAN appealed directly to Janet Nixon – the wife of Royal Bank of Canada’s CEO, Gordon Nixon – to help us end her husband’s company’s massive bankrolling…
Canada Wastes No Time in Pushing Dirty Oil on Obama
A report from the Globe and Mail today underscores just how important dirty oil is to Canada’s designs on the US energy markets: Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proposing to…