Greenpeace views the construction of Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland as an example of the problems on building new nuclear power.

Such views began to influence the Green Parties, Greenpeace, and a few more radical wings of the environmental movement such as the Gaia Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front.

On September 15, 1971, the newly founded Don't Make a Wave Committee sent a chartered ship, Phyllis Cormack, renamed Greenpeace for the protest, from Vancouver to oppose United States testing of nuclear devices in Amchitka, Alaska.

After the nuclear tests at Amchitka were over, Greenpeace moved its focus to the French atmospheric nuclear weapons testing at the Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia.

In 1972 the yacht Vega, a ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the exclusion zone at Moruroa to attempt to disrupt French nuclear testing.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

According to Greenpeace the slow construction times, construction delays, and hidden costs, all limit the mitigation potential of nuclear power.

In 1994, Greenpeace published an anti-nuclear newspaper advert which included a claim that nuclear facilities Sellafield would kill 2, 000 people in the next 10 years, and an image of a hydrocephalus-affected child said to be a victim of nuclear weapons testing in Kazakhstan.

Greenpeace did not admit fault, stating that a Kazakhstan doctor had said that the child's condition was due to nuclear testing.

In Philadelphia, in 2006, Greenpeace issued a press release that said " In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE ," The final report warned of plane crashes and reactor meltdowns.

Although EDF claimed that a security firm had only been employed to monitor Greenpeace, the court disagreed, jailing the head and deputy head of EDF's nuclear security operation for three years each.

Major nuclear disarmament groups include Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Greenpeace and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

** The Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters, to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.

Major nuclear disarmament groups include Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Greenpeace and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

In 1995, he joined Greenpeace on their ship, the Rainbow Warrior, in opposition to nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific Ocean.

In 2007, Barack Obama, then running for president, said that the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission had become " captive of the industries that it regulates " and a nuclear policy analyst at Greenpeace USA has called the agency approval process a " rubber stamp ".

Greenpeace campaigners were preparing the former North Sea fishing trawler for the environmental group's biggest-ever protest voyage to Mururoa, one which they hoped would alert the world over France's nuclear testing and radioactive poisoning of the oceans.

In 2007 he supported Greenpeace on board their ship Arctic Sunrise in their campaign against the replacement of the UK's nuclear weapons.

It was an attack carried out by French DGSE Agents Captain Dominique Prieur and Commander Alain Mafart aimed at sinking the flagship craft of the Greenpeace Organization to stop her from interfering in French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.

Using direct action, Greenpeace has protested several times against coal by occupying coal power plants and blocking coal shipments and mining operations, in places such as New Zealand, Svalbard, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

In October 2007, six Greenpeace protesters were arrested for breaking in to the Kingsnorth power station, climbing the 200 metre smokestack, painting the name Gordon on the chimney, and causing an estimated £ 30, 000 damage.

This center has been met with notable criticism from environmental groups such as Greenpeace because the power utility company contracted for the center, PacifiCorp, generates 70 % of its electricity from coal.

Major anti-nuclear power groups include Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Sortir du nucléaire ( France ).

In the early 1990s, Greenpeace developed a CFC-free refrigerator technology, " Greenfreeze " for mass production together with the refrigerator industry.

Environmental activists, including members of Greenpeace, have organized strong protests against the oil shale industry.

Greenpeace played a significant role in these protests, instigating a boycott of BC forest products in order to apply pressure on the industry.

Lenovo was named the most environment-friendly company in the electronics industry by Greenpeace in 2007 but has since dropped to place 14 of 17 as of October 2010.

According to Greenpeace, oil sands industry has been identified as the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions growth in Canada, as it accounts for 40 million tons of emissions per year.

* Guardian article on Moore " Why is a former Greenpeace activist siding with Indonesia's logging industry?

Melchett severed his ties with Greenpeace in 2002 when he took up a part-time consultancy with industry PR company Burson-Marsteller.

and Greenpeace, which have questioned the viability of developing environmentally sustainable clean coal within an adequate time frame and budget – representing their perspective that funding of such projects should be sourced exclusively from within the coal industry.

" Cooperation with the British Council, set up a " British Day " to promote reading ; and Greenpeace co-operation, first held on the 24th green at 』『 " love of books ‧ Aisen Lin Day ", hopes to use the platform in Hong Kong Book Fair, publishing industry to promote the use of " forest friendly " paper, protect virgin forests are disappearing.

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

After this Greenpeace tried to navigate to the test site with other vessels, until the U. S. detonated the bomb.

After the office in the Stowe home, ( and after the first concert fund-raiser ) Greenpeace functions moved to other private homes and held public meetings weekly on Wednesday nights at the Kitsilano Neighborhood House before settling, in the fall of 1974, in a small office shared with the SPEC environmental group, at 2007 W. 4th Avenue, at Maple Street, across from the Bimini neighbourhood pub.

After the incidents of Moruroa, David McTaggart had moved to France to battle in court with the French state and helped to develop the cooperation of European Greenpeace groups.

Together with EREC, Greenpeace has formulated a global energy scenario, " Energy evolution ", where 80 % of the world's total energy is produced with renewables, and the emissions of the energy sector are decreased by over 80 % of the 1990 levels by 2050.

Greenpeace aims at protecting intact primary forests from deforestation and degradation with the target of zero deforestation by 2020.

Greenpeace, together with other environmental NGOs, also campaigned for ten years for the EU to ban import of illegal timber.

The role of the annual general meeting is also to discuss and decide the overall principles and strategically important issues for Greenpeace in collaboration with the trustees of regional offices and Greenpeace International board of directors.

Along with the Rainbow Warriors, Greenpeace has had several other ships in its service: MV Sirius, MV Solo, MV Greenpeace, MV Arctic Sunrise and MV Esperanza, the last two being in service today.

He also accused Greenpeace of having unofficial agreements with polluting companies where the companies paid Greenpeace to keep them from attacking the company's image.

Greenpeace supports small local groups of youths and children who want to join or found a " Greenteam ", by providing them with free info materials and mentoring.

He followed with 1992's The Rainbow Warrior for ABC, the story of the ill-fated Greenpeace ship sunk by French operatives in the Auckland harbour.

Beginning in 1986, " London Greenpeace ", a small environmental campaigning group ( not to be confused with the larger Greenpeace International organisation, which they declined to join as they saw it being too " centralised and mainstream for their tastes "), distributed a pamphlet entitled What ’ s wrong with McDonald ’ s: Everything they don ’ t want you to know.

Today the term " ecology movement " is associated often with the more moral, more confrontational, and more rigorous stance taken by Greenpeace and other even more radical NGOs, e. g. Earth First, Earth Action, Sea Shepherd, in favor of the Precautionary Principle and strong fundamental preventive measures for biosafety, biosecurity and biodiversity.