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Following November’s mid-term elections, I
took solace in the words of Martin Luther
King, Jr., who wisely said, “We must accept
finite disappointment, but never lose infinite
hope.”
Many of the incoming Republicans in
Congress deny the reality of global warming
and favor fossil fuels over clean energy,
which is definitely a disappointment.
However, even with large Democratic
majorities in the House and Senate earlier
this year, the climate bill was killed and the oil Our struggle to prevent the catastrophic
industry won billions of dollars in funding.
The painful truth is that we can no longer rely Together, we the people can launch a clean
on the government to deliver the kind of
change we need for a green and peaceful
future. We the people are the planet’s only
hope, and I have infinite hope in the power of people power has come. As always, I thank
people.
My hope is bolstered by the broad coalition
from different political, ethnic, religious, and
socio-economic backgrounds that came
together in California and defeated
Proposition 23. This oil-funded ballot
From the Executive Director 2 GLOBAL
measure would have suspended the Global WARMING
Warming Solutions Act of 2006, but a • Sunrise on the Gulf
grassroots movement of concerned and
committed individuals stopped the measure • Arctic Drilling Showdown
in its tracks.
Greenpeace helped lead the charge against
Proposition 23, but our efforts would have
been nothing without the thousands of
8 FORESTS
• Cotillard in the Congo
people who attended rallies, signed petitions,
and made their voices heard. On November • Burger King Bows Down
2nd, the people of California voted down • Kleercut Campaign Wins
Proposition 23 by a wide margin of 21% – BENNY Award
the most lopsided defeat of any of the
propositions presented to voters in 2010.
effects of global warming will wage on, with
12 OCEANS
• The Tokyo Two Trial
or without the support of Congress.
• Oh No Costco!
energy revolution and affect the changes
necessary for a green and peaceful future.
The age of the politician is over; the time for
you for standing with us in our planet‘s most
desperate hour. 16 IN MEMORIAM
• Jim Bohlen
For the Earth,
• Dorothy Stowe
Philip D. Radford
 But these are no alien invaders; these are

Sunrise on the Gulf the direct results of our relentless demand

for oil, which, along with shrinking reserves
and skyrocketing oil prices, has driven the
oil industry into deeper and deeper water.
There are now more than 6,900 active fed-
eral leases to drill in the Gulf of Mexico
alone.
The oil companies and our government
both assured us that the sinister-looking
rigs sprouting up along our coasts were
safer than the Ferris wheels at the county
fair. The U.S. Minerals Management Serv-
ice stated that there was a less than one
percent chance of a blowout and that, even
if one did happen, it wouldn’t release much
oil.

© Sean Gardner/Greenpeace More than 200 million gallons of spilled oil

later, we have learned not to take industry
s the sun rises on the Gulf of Mexico, the imposing silhouettes of several
A thousand offshore drilling rigs take shape on the horizon.
and government assurances at face value.
Following the BP Deepwater Horizon dis-
With their massive steel legs straddling the sea, metal cranes clawing at the aster, Greenpeace sent our research and
sky, and flare stacks spewing fire and smoke, the rigs look like an army of alien activism vessel, the Arctic Sunrise, to the
spaceships come to plunder our planet’s resources in some kind of Wellsian Gulf of Mexico to conduct an independent
nightmare. investigation into what is now officially the
worst oil spill accident in world history.
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Joined by a dozen scientists and several
media outlets, including a film crew
commissioned by His Royal Highness
The Prince of Wales, the team onboard
Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise spent three
months studying the impacts that the oil
and the dispersants are having on the
Gulf ecosystem. Our scientific expedition
wrapped up in late October and, as the
results continue to filter in, we are more
than a little alarmed.
We have seen the dead sea turtles wash
ashore and we have heard the oil-covered
© Sean Gardner/Greenpeace
© Mannie Garcia/Greenpeace
pelicans cry out in desperation. We have
taken toxic water samples and delivered
them to Congress’s doorstep. We have
stood, hand-in-hand, with members of the
affected coastal communities and
© Sean Gardner/Greenpeace
demanded accountability from the oil
industry and the government.
Despite the Obama administration’s
reports that the majority of the oil from the
BP spill has been evaporated, burned,
skimmed, dispersed, or recovered,
Greenpeace and the team of independent
scientists we are working with can say with
© Kate Davison/Greenpeace
 some certainty that the government’s conclu-
sions are lost between wishful thinking and out-
right spin.
Billions of dollars have been spent on clean-up
and cover-up efforts, but even the most conser-
vative estimates say that around 170 million gal-
lons of oil still remain in the Gulf and on the
shorelines of Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi,
and Alabama. That is more than 10 Exxon
Valdez oil disasters put together.
Though BP dumped nearly two million gallons
of toxic dispersant into the Gulf to drive the oil
out of sight, we know that the long-term effects
of the disaster will be felt here for decades to
come.
Where the surface looks clean, plumes of oil,
deep underwater, have billowed out into the
open sea, leaving enormous “dead zones” in
their wake. These undersea oil rivers, one of
which was estimated to be the size of Manhat-
tan, deplete oxygen and can kill wildlife like dol-
phins, whales, sea turtles, and fish.
In addition to providing a platform for independ-
ent research in the Gulf, Greenpeace has sub-
© Mannie Garcia/Greenpeace mitted 27 Freedom of Information Act requests
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to the Obama administration. The scope
of these requests was derived from
Greenpeace’s ongoing fieldwork, as well
as tips from local activists and reporters.
Some of Greenpeace’s demands for
disclosure include:
• Information regarding sea turtles
being killed in controlled oil burns in
the Gulf region.
• Information on any communications
about “carcass collection facilities” in
the Gulf region.
• Information on all internal communi-
cations regarding the 23 blowouts that
• Information on all meetings and
correspondence between the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and BP regarding
underwater oil plumes.
We cannot allow the truth to be
submerged any longer. Greenpeace
will continue to expose the real cost of
our oil addiction, while sounding the call
for a permanent ban on all new offshore
drilling. Unless we take serious action
to break the oil industry’s chokehold on
our government, disasters like the one
in the Gulf of Mexico will continue to
plague our coastlines. © Mannie Garcia/Greenpeace

have occurred on oil rigs in the Gulf

since 2006.
• Information on internal communica-
tions within and between the
Environmental Protection Agency,
U.S. Coast Guard, and BP concern-
ing directives on dispersant use and
exemptions granted to BP by the
Coast Guard.

LEARN MORE @ greenpeace.org/sunriseonthegulf © Sean Gardner/Greenpeace

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 Arctic Drilling Showdown
rom the world’s largest land predator, the polar bear, to

F the ivory-tusked unicorn of the sea, the narwhal, the

Arctic is home to a fascinating array of wildlife. These
creatures have remained virtually undisturbed in their distant
and icy realm for millennia. But today, the Arctic is under
assault as fossil fuel-driven global warming causes the sea
ice that underpins the entire ecosystem to melt away.
Ironically, this decrease in sea ice means that oil companies
can finally get at the fossil fuel reserves once locked under © Robert Visser/Greenpeace

the Arctic’s ice-covered waters. In order to prevent an oil rush The Greenpeace activists were ultimately arrested and
from destroying this pristine habitat and the wildlife it supports, deported, but our determination to go beyond oil remains
Greenpeace is taking direct action on the high seas. undeterred. Our next battlefront in the war against Arctic
drilling will be off the coast of Alaska, where BP has set up
In early September, Greenpeace’s Esperanza evaded the
its Liberty project – the most powerful drilling rig in the world.
Danish navy off the coast of Greenland and deployed a team
of activists onto the Stena Don drilling rig. The Greenpeace Once fully operational, the BP Liberty will be capable of
activists successfully shut down the Stena Don operation drilling up to two miles down and eight miles sideways in
for two consecutive days, costing the oil company, Cairn search of oil. The company will be pushing the limits of ultra-
Energy, precious time while drilling in such a remote extended reach drilling with this project, a technology that is
location.
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© Greenpeace
unproven in Arctic waters and is
more prone to the type of gas leaks
that can lead to a Deepwater
Horizon-style blowout. BP insists
that Liberty won’t have any significant
effects on the environment – but they
said the same thing about
Deepwater Horizon.
If a disaster on the scale of what we
witnessed in the Gulf of Mexico
© Will Rose/Greenpeace
were to ever occur in the Arctic, the
results would be devastating to the
region’s polar bear and whale
populations.
Greenpeace will continue to stand
up against the oil industry and lead
the way toward a clean energy
future.
© Will Rose/Greenpeace
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 Cotillard in the Congo © Kate Davison/Greenpeace

arlier this year, Marion Cotillard, the Academy Award- millions of Congolese also depend on the rainforest for their

E winning actress and star of “Inception,” joined livelihoods.

Greenpeace on an expedition into the Green Heart of
Africa – the Congo rainforest.
Travelling up the Congo on a small wooden boat, Cotillard and
the Greenpeace team witnessed first-hand how huge
Second only to the Amazon rainforest in size, the Congo is international logging companies are plundering the
home to many endangered wildlife species, like the rainforest’s resources at the expense of its local inhabitants.
mountain gorilla. Nearly 700,000 indigenous people and
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“I’ve seen how large-scale timber operations are threatening
[some of] the planet’s last intact forests,” said Marion. “They’re
being eaten away from the inside. This extraordinary ecosys-
tem that supports the lives of tens of millions of people and is
the planet’s second largest green lung is in danger.”
“At each meeting, during each discussion with the people
living there, I could see the looting that’s unfolding in these
remote lands: the industrial loggers arrive, hand out a few
‘crumbs,’ and then cut down the most valuable wood. This
wood is often exported to the European market where it’s
sold at exorbitant prices – while in the Congolese forests,
workers risk their lives and are often paid less than a dollar
a day.”
Cotillard’s experience was recorded in a series of seven
video diaries, so that the world could share her journey
through the endangered Congo rainforest. At the end of the
© Markus Mauthe/Greenpeace © Philip Reynaers/Greenpeace
Greenpeace expedition, the actress concludes, “The only
viable solution would be for rich countries to financially help
the Congolese to protect their forests. It’s in the interests of all
of humanity to preserve this treasure: to save what’s left of
biodiversity, to fight against climate change, and to ensure the
Democratic Republic of Congo sees genuine development.”
Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to the expansion
of industrial logging in the Congo rainforest, especially in
intact forests. The people of the Congo are desperately in
need of sustainable development that is both environmentally
responsible and socially equitable. Industrial logging is not the
answer.
WATCH @ greenpeace.org/cotillardinthecongo
© Kate Davison/Greenpeace
Burger King Bows Down F lame broiled rainforests are no longer
on the menu at Burger King, after a
nationwide Greenpeace campaign
forced the fast food giant to take action for
Paradise Forests in Indonesia.
On September 1, 2010, Burger King
announced that it would cut Sinar Mas, a
massive conglomerate that is destroying
Indonesia’s rainforests and peatlands to
expand palm oil plantations, out of its supply
chain. By slashing and burning the Paradise
Forests, Sinar Mas is pushing critically
endangered orangutans toward extinction
and polluting our global climate.
The Greenpeace recipe for campaign
success included “ape actions” with activists
dressed as orangutans at Burger King
locations coast to coast, a stream of online
petitions to the company from supporters like
you, and Greenpeace reports exposing Sinar
Mas violating industry standards, Indonesian
law, and its own public statements. Sinar
Mas tried to deflect criticism with a limited
“audit” of its operations. In a huge setback
for the forest-destroyer, Burger King cited the
findings of the audit as its main rationale for
dropping Sinar Mas.
© Daniel Beltrá·/Greenpeace
 transitioning to a new palm oil
supplier for the 176 Burger King
restaurants that were supplied by
Sinar Mas. In addition, we are
notifying our suppliers of our
intent to discontinue the use of
palm oil supplied by Sinar Mas in
the manufacturing of our
products.” As with all corporate
commitments, we will remain
vigilant to make sure Burger King
sticks to its pledges.
This is just the latest good news
© Greenpeace
our campaign has achieved for
In a statement, Burger King said the orangutans, our climate, and local
audit “... has raised valid concerns communities that depend
about some of the sustainability Indonesian rainforests. Our campaign
practices of Sinar Mas’ palm oil to reach zero deforestation in
production and its impact on the Indonesia is gaining momentum and
rainforest. These practices are incon- making real change. Now is the time to
sistent with our corporate responsibility keep the pressure on. Help us tell
commitments. As a result, we have Pizza Hut and Dunkin’ Donuts, two
decided we will no longer purchase other fast food chains linked to Sinar
palm oil from Sinar Mas or its Mas, to take action to save our last
subsidiaries. We are in the process of rainforests.
TAKE ACTION @ greenpeace.org/fastfoodforests
ACCO L A D E S FO R G R E E N P E AC E
Kleercut Campaign
Wins BENNY Award
Every year, the Business Ethics Network
recognizes outstanding corporate cam-
paign victories with its prestigious BENNY
award. In 2010, Greenpeace was honored
with the BENNY for our nearly five year
Kleercut campaign against Kimberly-Clark.
The Kleercut campaign launched in 2004
with a focus on connecting the demand for
disposable products and the destruction
on the ground in Canada's Boreal Forest.
After countless direct actions, creative
on communications, and boardroom negotia-
tions, Kimberly-Clark agreed to a new
environmental procurement policy that is
considered the strongest in its class.
Among other things, the company has
agreed to no longer source from
Endangered and High Conservation Value
forests, and to continuously increase the
use of FSC certified and recycled fibers
over time. Greenpeace continues to meet
with Kimberly-Clark on a regular basis to
review progress.
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 Junichi Sato
© Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert /Greenpeace
Toru Suzuki
© Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert /Greenpeace
Tokyo Two Trial
“Baby whales are This shocking witness testi- Junichi and Toru undertook great personal risks to investigate
mony came from an ex-whaler and reveal the ugly truth at the core of Japan’s taxpayer-
more tender, so the who spoke at the trial of funded whaling industry. In May 2008, the activists
crew keeps that meat Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, intercepted one of 90 huge boxes of prime-cut whale meat
the Greenpeace activists also being smuggled off a Japanese “research” ship by the
for themselves. They
known as the Tokyo Two, who whaling crew. The box was deceptively labeled as
are perfect for unesu were prosecuted for exposing “cardboard” and was on its way to be sold on the underground
(whale bacon).” corruption within Japan’s whale meat market in Tokyo, where it would have fetched
“scientific” whaling industry. several thousand U.S. dollars.
Despite the overwhelming evidence in their defense, on This evidence, along with the findings of a four-month
September 6, 2010, Junichi and Toru were handed a one year undercover Greenpeace investigation, was broadcast to the
suspended prison sentence. Greenpeace is now appealing world and caused an immediate uproar. For the first time in
the Japanese court’s unjust and politically motivated ruling. Japan’s history, the issue of whaling received national media
The freedom to peacefully draw public attention to govern- attention. Furious, the Japanese authorities sent 75 troopers
ment wrongdoing is not only a crucial part of any democracy to storm Greenpeace Japan’s Tokyo headquarters and
– it is an inalienable right that must be defended. arrest both Junichi and Toru.

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Instead of investigating and arresting those
behind the whale meat embezzlement
scandal, Junichi and Toru were detained
arbitrarily, forced to live under strict bail
conditions, and put on trial. After more than
two years of political prosecution, the Japan-
ese court has convicted them of “theft” and
“trespass,” while the criminals behind the
whale meat embezzlement walk free.
Vigils are being held at Japanese embassies
around the world and hundreds of thousands
© Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace
of people have already signed our petition
calling for justice. In addition, the Tokyo Two’s
case has been taken up by Amnesty
International, Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu,
and celebrity activists like Benicio Del Toro.
Greenpeace will continue to broadcast
Junichi and Toru’s story to the world, while
calling for an end to Japan’s corrupt whaling
industry, once and for all.
© Rob Keeris/Greenpeace
 Oh No Costco! After an in-depth investigation of Costco ware-
houses across the country, Greenpeace has
found 15 of the 22 red listed seafood species
on their shelves: Alaskan pollock, Atlantic cod,
Atlantic salmon, Atlantic sea scallops, Chilean
sea bass, South Atlantic albacore tuna,
grouper, monkfish, ocean quahog, orange
roughy, red snapper, redfish, swordfish,
tropical shrimp, and yellowfin tuna.
For two full years, Costco refused to respond
to our efforts to engage the company about
the unsafe and unsustainable seafood it sells.
What’s worse, Costco refused to take action,
continuing to insufficiently label its seafood
products and, as a result, customers had no
© Ben Russell/Greenpeace
f you are a member of Costco, the largest club warehouse idea whether or not they are purchasing

I chain in the United States, you have probably enjoyed

wholesale prices on everything from cereal and diapers to
plasma TVs and recliners. You may not be aware, however,
unsustainable items.
On June 30, 2010, Greenpeace decided to pay Costco’s
Seattle headquarters a visit in our 135-foot airship, the A.E.
that Costco is stocking something much more sinister in their
Bates. “Costco: Wholesale Ocean Destruction” was stitched
freezer isles: wholesale ocean destruction.
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 © Ben Russell/Greenpeace
in enormous letters along the airship’s side to draw
public attention to the company’s lack of sustainable
seafood policies and purchasing practices. This flight
marked the launch of Greenpeace’s “Oh No Costco!”
campaign, which continues to wage on in full force.
Some supermarket chains, like Wegmans, Target, and
Whole Foods, have demonstrated a strong commit-
ment to providing safer, more sustainable seafood
options for their customers. Trader Joe’s also got a
little greener this year, thanks to pressure from
Greenpeace and tens of thousands of people across
the country who demanded change. Now it’s time to
turn the tide against Costco, who refuses to take
responsibility.
TAKE ACTION @ oh-no-costco.com
© Anthony Bolante/Greenpeace
The company can meet consumer demand for sustainable products
by refusing to sell seafood from fisheries that:
■ exploit endangered, vulnerable, and/or protected species, or
species with poor stock statues
■ cause habitat destruction and/or lead to ecosystem alterations
■ cause negative impacts on other, non-target species
■ are unregulated, unreported, illegal or managed poorly
■ cause negative impacts on local, fishing-dependent communities
Costco needs to stop hiding behind their massive warehouse and
improve seafood labeling practices so their customers will know
exactly what they’re buying. Costco must also stop selling red listed
seafood beginning immediately with the conservation-dependant
orange roughy and Chilean sea bass.
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 In Memoriam
Jim Bohlen and Dorothy Stowe
Lest we ever forget that we stand upon the shoulders of
giants, this issue of the Greenpeace Update is dedicated
to the memories of Jim Bohlen and Dorothy Stowe, the
two Greenpeace founders who passed away in 2010. © Robert Keziere/Greenpeace © Alan Katowitz/Greenpeace
Jim Bohlen Dorothy Stowe
In the spring of 1968, Jim and Marie Bohlen attended an 7/4/1926 ~ 7/5/2010 12/20/1920 ~ 7/23/2010
anti-war demonstration in Vancouver, British Columbia,
the U.S. nuclear testing program, won Amchitka
where they met fellow Quakers, Irving and Dorothy
designation as a wildlife sanctuary, and gave birth to the
Stowe. A year later, when the Bohlens and the Stowes
Greenpeace movement.
learned of the U.S. government’s plans to test nuclear
weapons on the Alaskan island of Amchitka, they began “It is amazing,” Dorothy recalled in later years, “what a
meeting with journalists Robert Hunter and Ben Metcalfe few people sitting around their kitchen table can achieve.”
and formed the group that would ultimately become That kitchen table belonged to the Stowe’s. The most
Greenpeace. fitting memorial for Dorothy and Jim is that we continue to
stand together in the name of peace, justice, and the
In September 1971, the group attempted to sail a boat
living Earth, while maintaining hope in the face of
into the heart of the nuclear test and peacefully prevent
insurmountable odds. This is all they would have asked
the destruction of the island ecosystem. What followed
from us.
was a wave of public support that ultimately shut down

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