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Marsden B hearing today in Whangarei
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 2:46 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Whangarei, Tuesday 30 December, 2007: Greenpeace's bid to stop proposed coal fired power station Marsden B continued today by presenting a submission against Mighty River Powers (MRP) plan to put a coal conveyor belt across conservation land. More >>
Global Energy Strategy For Tackling Climate Change
Friday, 26 January 2007, 9:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
International, New Zealand 25th January 2007 - Renewable energy, combined with efficiencies from the 'smart use' of energy, can deliver half of the world's energy needs by 2050, according to one of the most comprehensive plans for future sustainable energy provision, ... More >>
To Japan, With Love
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 1:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
To Japan, With Love – A message from Greenpeace And the Biggest Ever Crew to Sail to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary More >>
Endangered Whales Hunted, Stockpiled Left Rotting
Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 9:19 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
January 23th 2007: The Icelandic government's claims of sustainable whaling were harpooned today, after Greenpeace revealed that around 200 tonnes of meat and blubber from endangered fin whales are still in storage, waiting to be tested for chemical ... More >>
Endangered Whales Huntedand Left to Rot
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 3:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Icelandic government's claims of sustainable whaling were harpooned today, after Greenpeace revealed that around 200 tonnes of meat and blubber from endangered fin whales are still in storage, waiting to be tested for chemical contamination and ... More >>
Greenpeace: New Global Recruitment Drive
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 11:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is inviting Pacific Islanders to harness the power of cyberspace, through a new global “recruitment drive” to find 30,000 new campaigners to defend whales. More >>
Ship Arrives in Auckland Before Whaling Campaign
Monday, 8 January 2007, 11:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace ship The Esperanza will arrive in Auckland tomorrow morning, to prepare for the organisation's campaign against the Japanese Government's whaling programme in the Antarctic's Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. More >>
Ship will stop in Auckland en route to save whales
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 1:09 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is en route to the Southern Ocean as part of a massive global campaign to stop whaling in the Sanctuary. More >>
NZ Govt taking the right approach on whaling
Monday, 18 December 2006, 3:33 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today congratulated the New Zealand Government for leading a 27-country protest to the Japanese Government over its upcoming Antarctic whaling plans. More >>
Agriculture Must Pull its Weight on Climate Change
Monday, 18 December 2006, 2:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 18 December, 2006: Greenpeace today called on the agriculture sector to play its part in addressing climate change as the Government released its proposals for dealing with the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and forestry. More >>
Corngate (again): Call for revision of Rules
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today condemned Syngenta for playing Russian roulette with farmers and NZ’s GE free status following the revelation that two of four batches of corn imported illegally tested positive for GE. More >>
Forests, people in PNG, NZ furniture industry lose
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Government’s new policy will do virtually nothing to halt the importation of illegally logged timber coming into New Zealand, Greenpeace said today. The new policy, announced by Jim Anderton yesterday, is a slight shift from the status quo. The only ... More >>
Greenpeace calls for stronger climate action
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:28 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
December 11, 2006: Greenpeace is calling for stronger action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the wake of today's release of three major Government reports. More >>
Huge steps by Government in Ocean Sustainability
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 4:05 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Thursday 7 December 2006: Greenpeace today congratulated the Minister of Fisheries, Jim Anderton for today's breakthough announcement that the Government will make sustainability come first in the Fisheries Act. More >>
All GE Corn Must be Destroyed
Monday, 4 December 2006, 5:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace said today all GE contaminated corn must be pulled up and destroyed, following the discovery that some 1.8 tonnes of GE corn have been imported into New Zealand, distributed and grown. More >>
Key Challenged on Climate Change
Thursday, 30 November 2006, 9:50 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Market measures are not enough to address climate change - the greatest threat that faces the planet. National will need to bite the bullet and back legislation to regulate polluters. More >>
Deep-Sea Protection Frozen By Iceland
Friday, 24 November 2006, 3:16 pm | Greenpeace
UN Bottom Trawling Moratorium And Deep-Sea Protection Frozen By Iceland Friday 24 November 2006, United Nations, New York: Negotiations at the UN to adopt a possible moratorium on bottom trawling in international waters have been torpedoed by a small ... More >>
Fiji Govt Should Act Against Bottom Trawler
Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 3:50 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has called on the Fijian Government to take firm action against a Belizean flagged Chinese high seas bottom trawler by revoking its permit to discharge its catch in the Port of Suva for transhipment to China More >>
Marsden B Climbing Activists Discharged
Monday, 20 November 2006, 12:42 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The three Greenpeace activists who climbed the Marsden B proposed coal-fired power station on 4 November as part of a global climate change protest were today discharged without conviction in the Auckland District Court. More >>
Greenpeace Calls for Whaling Fleet to Stay in Port
Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 10:15 am | Greenpeace
Despite international condemnation and little domestic support, a six-ship whaling fleet is due to sail from Shimonoseki in Japan tomorrow, with plans to hunt nearly 1,000 whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Greenpeace is calling on the ... More >>
