Fall 2010 Update

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On the cover: A pelican sits covered with oil from theDeepwater Horizon wellhead in Barataria Bay, Louisiana justhe Gulf of Mexico. Jose Luis Magana/Greenpeace

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GREENPEACEIN THE GULF

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From the Executive Director GLOBALWARMING Spill, Baby, Spill

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Today, our nation stands at acrossroads.

As we emerge from the hottestsummer on record, still choking

on the worst oil spill in American history and dripping with

the blood of an oil war in the Middle East, we are facedwith a choice and a challenge.

Either we continue down the path that we are already on,blissfully complacent with our deadly and dangerous ad-diction to fossil fuel, or we change paths and set out in anew direction.

In the years to come, our children will remember this asthe moment that changed the world forever. The historybooks will say that Greenpeace and the worlds leadingscientists warned President Obama that changing nothingwould ultimately lead to the destruction of our planet andlife as we know it. But they will also say we told our presi-dent that, if he had the courage to travel down the roadnot taken, he could finally lead the way to a green andpeaceful future for us all.

It is now time for President Obama to show the kind ofleadership that Americans dreamed he would when weswept him into office. It is now time for our president todeclare a new Apollo program: a visionary and ambitiousmission to kick our oil addiction and launch a cleanenergy revolution.

This is a turning point of immense historical significance.If we miss the turn, we miss the chance to grab our future

with both hands. President Obama can reduce ournations global warming pollution 40% by 2030 bychampioning climate legislation that will:

Shift oil subsidies, conservatively estimated at $10billion per year, into an investment in publictransportation and smart energy grid technology.

Require that 30% of new cars are electric plug-ins by2020 (and 90% by 2030) through the EPA or Congress.

Rewrite national building codes to include outlets forplugging in cars across the country.

Require states to implement new rules for buying and

selling electricity that favor renewable energy andelectric plug-in cars without costing consumers more.

Provide tax incentives to electric car buyers.

A recent CNN poll found that nearly 80% of voters believethat reducing oil use and shifting to cleaner energy wouldmake life better for Americans. Another poll by the WallStreet Journalin June found that an overwhelmingmajority of people support passing legislation to limitglobal warming pollution.

Will President Obama listen to the people who electedhim and set America on a new path? Or will he deliver

another grandiose speech followed by more politicallyexpedient baby steps? This is the moment when all of uswho want to generate jobs, stop global warming, andstrengthen our national security must make our voicesheard. This is our challenge and our opportunity.

The last time our nation came this close to embracinga clean energy plan was just a few years afterGreenpeaces foundation in the 1970s. We cannot affordto wait another 35 years to seize the moment, becausethat moment that brief opportunity for real change might not come again. As always, I thank you for standingwith us at the crossroads.

For a Green and Peaceful Future,

Philip D. RadfordExecutive Director

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The defiant cries of drill, baby, drill that once dogged theObama campaign appear to have devolved into the

presidents new energy policy: spill, baby, spill.

Months after a fatal explosion rocked British Petroleums (BP)

Deepwater Horizon drilling platform and set off one of the

greatest environmental catastrophes in U.S. history, oil from the

wellhead continues to fill the Gulf of Mexico.

The disastrous BP oil spill occurred just weeks after PresidentObama proposed lifting a ban on offshore drilling in previously

protected areas and allowing the oil industry to pillage the GulfCoast, the East Coast, and the Arctic waters of Alaska.

Within days of the spills spread, Greenpeace had a teascientists, activists, and photographers on site high-sp

inflatables and all. Our team is exposing the true extent o

spill with photos and video, supporting the work of

environmental groups, and helping organize and mob

citizens to action.

Greenpeaces Arctic Sunrise which has peacefully prote

whaling in the Southern Ocean, documented global warm

and glacier melts in the Arctic, and taken action against ildeforestation along the Amazon river sailed to the of Mexico this summer to serve as a platform for research

the next several months, scientists from over a dozen in

tions will work with Greenpeace to assess the scope of the

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and the impacts it is having on marine life. The

scale of the disaster unfolding before our eyes

is unprecedented.

Plumes of oil, deep below the surface, have

billowed out into the open sea, creating deadzones in their wake. One oil plume alone

stretches 22 miles long, 6 miles wide, and 3,000feet thick. Undersea oil rivers deplete oxygen

and can kill wildlife like dolphins, sea turtles,

sperm whales, and countless bird and fish

species.

The oil, along with the millions of gal-

lons of toxic dispersants being

dumped on top of it, has now

changed the chemistry of the sea,perhaps irrevocably. No one knows

exactly what long-term damage this

could cause the Gulf of Mexicoecosystem, but the short-term

damage is all too clear

Fishermen and local businesses,

along with the coastal communities

that depend on them,

have been devastated.More than 500 of the

worlds most critically en-dangered sea turtles and

dozens of dolphins have

washed ashore dead. The

rotting corpse of a young

sperm whale was found

floating near the oil.Government scientists

estimate that the loss of just three adult sperm

whales could drive the

Gulf of Mexicos popula-

tion to extinction.

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The United States Coast Guard


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In a call for accountability from British

Petroleum, Greenpeace activists

surrounded the companys London

headquarters on May 20th, the one monthanniversary of the disaster, and hung up

British Polluter banners and flags with the

BP logo covered in oil.Should something like the BP spill ever

occur in Alaskas Beaufort or Chukchi

Seas, the results would be catastrophic for

the regions polar bear, walrus, and

bowhead whale populations.

On May 24th, during a visit by Department

of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to theGulf region, Greenpeace activists used

spilled oil to paint Arctic Next? on a

drilling ship bound for Alaska. Following

the action, President Obama placed a

six-month moratorium on deepwater

drilling operations in the Gulf and all new

projects in the Arctic.

But the ban was short-lived. Not long afterit was enacted, a Louisiana judge withheavy ties to the oil industry overturned the

ban. The Obama administration has s

rewritten the moratorium, making

prospects for even more offshore dr

very real.

Broken promises and tempomoratoriums will get us nowhere a

juncture. The only way to prevent anoil spill from happening is to stop bla

and bleeding the fossil fuel out of the E

in the first place. A permanent ba

offshore oil drilling must be put in pla

Greenpeace is committed to con

bearing witness and drawing attenti

the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico, rallying support for a complete ba

offshore drilling and a shift tow

renewable resources.

The klaxon call for a clean energy re

tion has been sounded. It is now

responsibility to stand up and deman

kind of change that President Ob

promised us during his campaign. baby, spill is no longer an option.

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TAKE ACTION: greenpeace.org/spillbabyspi


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BP Logo ContestA

few years ago, British Petroleum

(BP) rebranded themselves asBeyond Petroleum. But BP

continues pursuing the dirty fossil fuel

to the ends of the Earth, despite the massive environmental damage

that is being caused by their business. Following the DeepwaterHorizon explosion, Greenpeace in the United Kingdom set up a

competition to rebrand BP in a more accurate fashion. Supporters were

asked to create a logo for the oil giant to show that the company is not beyond

petroleum theyre up to their necks in offshore drilling. The winning logo will beused by Greenpeace in innovative and

exciting ways as part of our international

campaign against BP.

LEARN MORE: greenpeace.org/uk


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On its maiden voyage in the U.S.,

the Greenpeace airship A.E.

Bates flew over Edgemoor,Delaware, on May 21, 2010, to inspect

a DuPont chemical facility.

The team onboard the A.E. Bateswas

conducting aerial surveillance to de-

termine if unprotected liquid chlorine

was visible on the facility grounds. The

flight was part of a Greenpeace Chem-ical Security Inspection Tour of the Tri-

State area.

DuPonts plant failed the inspection

due to bulk storage of unprotectedchlorine gas, which puts millions of

people in the region at risk.

A subsequent inspection at theKuehne chemical plant outside of New

York City revealed two million pounds

of chlorine gas on site, putting up to 12million New Yorkers in harms way.

Following the terrorist attacks

September 11, 2001, airport sec

systems have undergone dramchanges X-ray machines, m

detectors, shoe removal requirem

and air puffing machines have all b

installed for our safety. Yet our nat

most dangerous chemical faci

remain unsecured and vulnerable

Should a deliberate attack or a traccident occur at one of these facil

the results would be catastrophic

enormous cloud of chlorine gas w

stretch out some 15 miles thro

towns and cities, melting peo

lungs and suffocating them to deat

it went.

In November of 2009, Greenpewas successful in convincing

House of Representatives to pass

requiring high-risk chem

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facilities to convert to safer

chemicals if feasible.

On July 15th, Senator Frank

Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced

companion legislation in the Senate

that would eliminate catastrophicrisks to millions of Americans,

create thousands of new jobs and

provide economic stimulus to local

governments.

But if the U.S. Senate fails to act this

year, you could be one of one-in-threeAmericans who will remain at risk.

Although more than 500 chemical

plants have converted to safermethods, and Clorox pledged to

convert all of its plans in the next few

years, over 110 million Americans

still live within the vulnerability zone

of a catastrophic chemical disaster.

Tell your senator to support a

chemical security bill and ensure a

green and peaceful future for all of us.

Tim Shaffer/Greenpeace

TAKE ACTION: greenpeace.org/chemicalsecuritybill

Robert Meyers/Greenpeace

Tim Shaffer/Greenpeace


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H

ere at Greenpeace, we make it our business to go after the biggest and bad-

dest environmental bullies on the block. When it comes to saving Indonesias

critically endangered Paradise Forests, that means lining up against Sinar

Mas a huge conglomerate that includes the largest palm oil and paper companiesin the region. The corporations ever-expanding palm oil and paper plantations are

eating into rainforests, driving wildlife towards extinction, and polluting our climate.

Until recently, one of Sinar Mass customers was Nestl, the largest food and drink

company in the world. Greenpeace research revealed that Nestl was purchasing

vast quantities of palm oil from Sinar Mas for its products, thus fueling the

destruction of the Paradise Forests. This region is home to unique and endangered

wildlife species like Sumatran tigers, forest elephants, tree kangaroos, and

orangutans one of our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.

A groundbreaking investigative report, a viral video including a chocolate-covered

orangutan finger, and a series of non-violent direct actions at Nestl locations around

the world were the stones we used to bring this Goliath down.

Within hours of Greenpeaces globally integrated campaign launch against Nestl

on March 17th, the company canceled its direct business contracts with Sinar

Mas. A few weeks later, they agreed to publicly lobby the Indonesian government

to protect the Paradise Forests.The most impressive piece of the victory came on May 17th, as Nestl unveiled a

sweeping new policy to cut deforestation out of its global supply chain. The

Protecting Paradise

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For nearly a decade, Greenpeace has been campaigningto end the ongoing destruction of Canadas Boreal

Forest. On May 18th, Greenpeace and its partners

reached a major milestone on the road to greater sustain-

ability with the announcement of the Canadian Boreal Forest

Agreement the biggest, most ambitious forest conservation

deal in history.

Greenpeace, its partners, and 21 of the biggest logging

industry players from the Forest Products Association ofCanada (FPAC) agreed to an immediate moratorium on

logging in nearly 72 million acres of forest. This vast swath of

forest covers virtually all the critical habitat for the threatewoodland caribou.

The agreement includes a commitment from the partie

work over the next three years to undertake landscape

conservation planning for the entire area covered by

agreement. The companies have pledged to work

Greenpeace to ensure long-term protection within 178 macres of forest an area twice the size of Germany w

stretches right across Canada.The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement is the result of

hard-fought campaigning, intense market pressure,

Andrew Ma

Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement


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Aproposal to overturn the ban on commercial whaling, originally supporte

the Obama administration, went down in flames at this years meeting o

International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Morocco.

More than 1.5 million people wrote letters, signed petitions, sent origami whales,

marched in Save the Whales rallies, pressuring President Obama to fulfi

campaign promise to stand with Greenpeace in support of the whales. The

statement at the IWC meeting reaffirmed this:

First and foremost, the United States continues to support the commercial wha

moratorium. We strongly oppose lethal scientific whaling we strongly belieunnecessary for modern whale conservation and management. In particular, the Un

States is concerned by whaling in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary, and by the increa

international trade and black market trade in whale meat and whale products.

Commercial WhalinBan is Uphe

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In the end, the 24-year-old whaling ban, which Greenpeace

fought for tirelessly throughout the seventies and eighties,

was upheld. This is an important victory for the whales, but

winning this battle still does not guarantee their safety.Japans scientific whaling fleet is already sailing out of

harbor and through IWC loopholes to slaughter hundreds of

whales.

Now more than ever, it is clear that the International

Whaling Commission has degenerated into a deviant and

corrupt voting body, where fake science and back-doordeals are the modi operandi. Though public pressure

helped shift the tides of change this year, the challenges

facing us at the next meetings of the IWC are enormous.

Just before this years IWC meeting, it was revealed tha

Japan has been bribing the delegates of poor and

developing nations with large sums of cash, expensive

vacations, and even prostitutes. In yet another indication ohow disfunctional the IWC has become, no mention was

made of this scandal during the entire meeting

Japans behavior at the IWC is reprehensible, but not nearlyas bad as commercial whaling itself. We will continue to

campaign for the reform of the IWC into a legitimate body

dedicated to the protection of whales not whaling.

For the past 35 years, Greenpeace has been the whales

greatest defenders. We will not rest until we have put an

end to commercial whaling, once and for all.

W Blue whales are increasing by8.2% a year.

WHumpback whales are increasing3.1% a year in the Northwest

Atlantic, 11-12% a year in the

Southern hemisphere, and 7% a

year in the Northeast Pacific.

W Southern right whales areincreasing by 7% a year.

WEastern gray whales haveincreased from only a few

hundred in the early 1900s to

more than 20,000 today.

W Fin whales, which Japancontinues to hunt, are not

increasing in population but

their rapid decline towardsextinction has been halted.

Despite Japans continued violation of the commercial whaling ban through a loophole that

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Perhaps no other fish in the sea is quiteas impressive as the six-foot, thou-sand-pound, warm-blooded bluefin tuna.

Bluefins have the ability to accelerate fasterthan a Porsche, going from 0 to 60 mph in

3 seconds flat. They can stun their preywith the centrifugal force generated by their

super speed before attacking. And, after

decades of overfishing, they are literally on

the brink of extinction.

Despite being listed as a critically

endangered species, like the mountain

gorilla and the Amur leopard, greedyfishing fleets continue to hunt our oceans

last bluefins into oblivion.

This summer, the Arctic Sunriseand the Rainbow Warrior II

set out for the Mediterranean Sea to rescue bluefin tuna being

held inside massive nets and destined for slaughter. Once

the ships crews spotted a school of trapped bluefin, inflatable

boats were lowered into the sea and activists submerged the

sides of the nets to free the fish.

But our boats and activists were met with violence as soon as

the fishermen realized what was happening. Several French

fishing vessels closed in around the Greenpeace team anloose their own high-speed inflatables. Wielding razor-s

knives and grappling hooks, the angry fishermen

launched an all-out attack.

Flares were fired directly at our boats and one of

Greenpeace activists was stabbed with a grappling hstraight through his leg. The activist was flown to a hosvia helicopter and is now recovering well.

Bluefin

Battle

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Two of our inflatable boats were slashed with knives and one

sank after being rammed and run over by the French fishing

vessels. Another Greenpeace inflatable was badly damaged

and several of our activists had to be rescued after they were

thrown into the sea.

Greenpeace activists put themselves on the line to try to

release bluefin tuna from fishing nets, but continuedinaction at international regulatory bodies is essentially

condemning this apex species to extinction. Leading marine

biologists and Greenpeace have warned that, without urgent

action, the bluefin tuna will be gone within the next three to fo

years.

The failure of the latest meeting of the Convention

International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to decla

a ban on sales of bluefin tuna has made the situation evworse. The vote followed several days of aggressive lobby

from the Japanese, who take the majority of the bluefins caugfor use at high-end sushi restaurants.

Greenpeace is campaigning to shut down the bluefin fish

industry to protect our oceans and the future of the speci

We are taking action where politicians a

fisheries managers refuse. In order to put the blueon a road to recovery, the quota in the Mediterrane

Sea must be set to zero, spawning grounds must

protected within a larger network of marine reservand all fishing operations targeting the species m

end immediately.

Gavin Newman/Greenpeace

Gavin Parsons/Greenpeace Paul Hilton/Greenpeace Paul Hilton/G

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T

here is an old Native American prophecy about a time

when mankinds greed will overcome the planet. It

foretells that, in the Earths darkest hour, a band ofRainbow Warriors will rise up to unite the good people of

the world and lead the way toward a green and peaceful

future. It was from this ancient legend that Greenpeace was

born and our flagship took its name, the Rainbow Warrior.

By 1985, some fifteen years after its foundation,

Greenpeace was well on its way to fulfilling this prophecy.

Under the banner of the peace and ecology symbols, Green-

peace had successfully pressured the U.S. to stop nucleartesting, persuaded the international community to pass a

moratorium on commercial whaling, and established itself

as the loudest and most courageous voice for the planet.

Then, the unimaginable happened.

On July 10, 1985, French secret agents detonated two

mines aboard the Rainbow Warrior, sinking the

Greenpeace flagship and killing Fernando Pereira, a young

father and photographer who was on board. The ship hadbeen in the South Pacific, peacefully protesting French

nuclear testing around the island of Moruroa.

We remember the 25th anniversary of the Rainbow

Warriors sinking not as a tragic defeat for our movementbut as a catalyst for the many Greenpeace victories tha

followed, and will continue to follow as long as people are

willing to stand with us for the protection of our planet.Greenpeace has proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, tha

you cannot sink a rainbow and you cannot sink a

movement. Today, three research and activist vessels sai

in the original Rainbow Warriors stead: the Esperanza, the

Arctic Sunrise, and the Rainbow Warrior II.

Next fall, just in time for Greenpeaces 40th anniversary, we

will welcome a new ship to the fleet: the Rainbow Warrior III

She will be the greenest ship on the high seas and an

invaluable asset for our campaigns to combat globa

warming, stop deforestation, and defend our planetsoceans.

Rainbow Warrior

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