Greenpeace

27 Greenpeace activists are taking non-violent direct action to stop
climate-changing coal from being burnt at Eraring, Australia's most
polluting coal-fired power plant. The activists, including an ex-miner
from the Hunter Valley, have blockaded the coal supply to the plant by
locking on to the conveyor. The action comes as the Australian
government's climate change advisor Professor Ross Garnaut prepares to
deliver his Draft Climate Change Review.

Photos | Energy [r]evolution Live Reports

Update: Greenpeace blockades coal fired power station, demands Energy [R]evolution

Greenpeace has announced the Esperanza will be visiting the East Coast of Australia over the next six weeks highlighting the need for a transition away from coal to clean renewable energy as contained in a new report called Blueprint for an energy [r]evolution

In related news: The Minister for Climate Change has announced new Greenhouse Gas Emission reporting requirements; and scientists have proclaimed that ocean warming has proceeded faster than expected and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is in danger of collapse over a period of 20 years possibly raising sea levels 4 to 6 metres, unless measures are taken to limit fossil fuel use and its contribution to global warming. Upcoming event: Camp for Climate Action, Newcastle July 10-15

Skye Bortoli of Australian Teens Against Whaling has described the 60th International Whaling Commission meeting in Chile as pathetic saying “this body will be known in the future as a small group of ecologically arrogant people who are condemning the world’s whales to agony and oblivion for petty politics and a few lousy bucks.”

UK Indymedia Feature | Sea Shepherd

Tokyo, May 15th 2008: Following this morning's revelation by Greenpeace
of large-scale corruption within the Japanese government-sponsored
Southern Ocean whaling programme, the environmental group delivered a
complaint to the Tokyo district Public Prosecutor's Office, who gave
assurance that the details of the case will be reviewed, pending a
decision to mount a criminal investigation.

On board the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin.

"It does not matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."
* Dr. Patrick Moore, President of Greenpeace Canada 1981

The Australian Attorney General's office is refusing to release photographic and video evidence on Japanese whaling gathered by the Australian Patrol ship Oceanic Viking to Humane Society international (HSI) to use for contempt of court action against the Japanese whalers.

Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has criticised Greenpeace for using the Whaling issue to raise funds without an ongoing commitment to continue harassing the whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean for the rest of the whaling season - about 2 months. The Greenpeace Esperanza has abandoned the whaling fleet and is presently en route to Hobart to refuel with no intention to return to the Southern Ocean this season.

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza, that has been shadowing the Nisshin Maru whaling factory ship for more than two weeks in a pursuit of more than 4300 nautical miles in the Southern Ocean, has been forced to abandon the chase due to needing to return to port to refuel.

The MV Esperanza,
the Greenpeace ship, has located the Japanese whaling fleet in the
Southern Ocean whaling sanctuary. The whaling factory ship, the Nisshin Maru has taken flight and is being chased by the Esperanza.
While the factory ship flees it means the hunter/killer ships cannot
hunt whales and transfer them to the factory ship for processing.

Related: Japanese Consulate protest in Melbourne | Photos | US Japan deal gives the Unofficial nod to Commercial Whaling

A confrontation between the Japanese Whaling Fleet and conservationists from Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace is likely to happen over the coming weeks in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary off the coast of Antarctica.

Related: A Case For Killing Humpback Whales? | Sea Shepherd hunting the whaling fleet | Conservation groups call on Rudd to act | Update Dec 20: Sea Shepherd Halts Hunt for Whalers to seek Repairs in Hobart