Average Canadians from all walks of life are registering concern about the myths promoted by Greenpeace--now the world's largest environmental organization.
Toronto Free Press wrote that "Greenpeace Must Be Made Responsible for Its Actions".
"....Greenpeace is really the creation of a small group of Canadians. Greenpeace owes Canadians and their neighbours in the global community responsibility for their actions. If not, the conduct of Greenpeace should be dealt with in court."
Toronto Free Press also believes that the best way to counteract the myths of Greenpeace is with the mantra of the group’s respected former co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore: "Truth based on fact".
The True Green Report can be found on our website: www.ourtoronto.on.ca. Readers with story ideas, or letters, pro or con about the activity of Greenpeace are welcome to email the True Green Report at cfp@canadafreepress.com
by Judi McLeod
Greenpeace's decade long campaign to smear the reputation of chlorine, an essential disinfectant used for water purification, is in part to blame for the tragedy that befell the people of Walkerton.
Stan Koebel, Water Works Manager for the town, testified that he 'heard' that chlorine was bad. He used that excuse, disseminated by the political pressure group Greenpeace, to justify not adding the required amount of chlorine needed to properly disinfect the water supply. The result was seven dead and thousands sick. No amount of legislation can protect the people of Ontario from blatant misconduct and incompetence.
Chlorine was voted by Time Magazine as the greatest public health advancement of the 20th century. And yet, Peter Tabuns, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada, and his surrogate at Toronto City Council Jack Layton continue to work zealously to try to have chlorine and products that contain chlorine, banned.
In terms of taking responsibility for misinformation, Greenpeace walked away from Walkerton.
Now researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey have discovered that lettuce fertilized with manure or irrigated with water contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7 can take the bacteria up through its root system. Until now it has generally been believed E.coli contamination of lettuce and other fruit and vegetables happened only on the outside and could be cleaned by water, steaming or irradiation.
In June of 2000, this newspaper asked in its cover story, "How many people in Ontario know that their farm crops are nurtured by human sewage?"
"With the whole world watching Walkerton and worried about drinking water, Ontario municipalities are quietly dumping human waste on farmer's fields. The practice of dumping human waste on Ontario's farmlands is largely unknown, controversial but legal. In Ontario, foods from strawberries to steak may be fertilized by human excrement.
"Municipal planners don't call it human waste. They use the terms 'biosolids', 'waste water residual' and 'sludge'.
"Are environmental activists, who are keeping mum about human sewage fertilizing our farms while campaigning against chlorine, selling us out?"
Toronto Free Press has launched a bumper sticker campaign as a direct response to Greenpeace activist's presence at violent Seattle World Trade Organization meetings.
Free 'Save the World from Greenpeace' bumper stickers are now available for anyone who wants them.
Besides using them for stocking stuffers, you can stand up for truth and non-violent ways of protesting with a Toronto Free Press 'Save the World from Greenpeace' bumper sticker.
A prominent sign at Toronto City Hall explaining that a number of poisons are contained in cigarettes, lists vinyl chloride (PVC) as one. As far as is known, there is no PVC in cigarettes, making us ponder what kind of 'wacky tabaccy' environmentally opportunistic councillors like Jack Layton are smoking these days.
'GM's embarrassing problem began when marketing executives at the company decided a catchy piece of music titled Pass it Along would be ideal as a hip soundtrack to their "Pass it on" ad campaign for Pontiac cars. Unfortunately for GM, the song in question happened to be the work of outspoken pop pranksters Chumbawamba, best remembered for their anthemic 1997 hit, "Tubthumping".
"Before the deal was even signed, Chumbawamba's members were busily emailing activist groups to garner opinion about what to do with the "dirty" money. The band eventually decided to split their corporate windfall between the independent news collective IndyMedia and the business monitoring service CorpWatch. The groups were naturally initially wary about taking money from a corporation diametrically opposed to their aims, but eventually decided in favour of what such large sums could do to aid their campaigning work. The opportunity to drum up some publicity, quite literally at GM's expense, must have been attractive too.
'There was some discussion about whether we should accept money that came indirectly from GM,' says Jay, an IndyMedia volunteer in Philadelphia who declined to give his last name. 'Though ultimately we decided that the donation was coming not from GM but from Chumbawamba, and that despite some of our finance working group members' disagreements with some decisions Chumbawamba has made in the past, we were happy to accept their contribution.'
Press reports indicated that IndyMedia planned to use the money for "corporate jamming actions". As for CorpWatch: "We'll use the donation to bolster CorpWatch's Internet-based corporate accountability work. We plan on using some of the money to document GM's social and environmental impacts,' says Joshua Karliner, Executive director of CorpWatch.
"Not what General Motors probably had in mind. GM representatives declined to comment. But its executives could probably have avoided the situation had someone at the motoring giant taken even the most cursory of glances at the history of Chumbawamba. Throughout their 20 -year career, the band has made no secret of their anarchist and environmental beliefs, and a swift click around the band's website would have revealed that members of the band run about as radical as they come, and even attended last year's anti-G-8 Summit protests in Genoa, where a demonstrator was shot dead by Italian police.
'The band's history is rife with irreverence. They ensured they would never have to attend another boring music awards ceremony when members emptied an ice bucket over British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at the Brit Awards in 1988. They have also courted controversy by defending shoplifting on Politically Incorrect', dousing the Clash's Joe Strummer with red paint and having an on-the-run convict give a speech at a show in London.
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