Greenpeace disrupts Canada's largest energy companyGreenpeace: Activists from Canada, France, Germany and Brazil have shut down a bitumen conveyor belt and blocked a bridge at the Suncor Energy site on the Athabasca River north of Fort McMurray.
Activists locked down on the bridge have erected a banner reading 'Bridge to Climate Hell.' Other activists have floated a banner on the Athabasca reading 'Dying for Climate Leadership.' to focus attention on the disregard for the river and the people who rely on it.
The river banner also speaks to the failure of the Canadian government and world leaders to fight climate change.
The action comes two weeks after the successful Greenpeace blockade at a Shell open-pit mine and a week after Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's leading body on climate change, said that Canada is failing on climate action, and should consider putting the tar sands on hold.
