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Call To Pull The Plug On Marsden B
Friday, 10 November 2006, 10:01 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today called on the Climate Change Minister, David Parker, to pull the plug on Marsden B and on Mighty River Power to halt its consent process for its proposed coal-fired power station. More >>
Greenpeace Criticises Report As Wasted Opportunity
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 10:36 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today criticised the IEA World Energy Outlook report as a wasted opportunity. While it is important that the IEA has finally recognised the need to drastically change the global energy supply in light of climate change, it has offered 'business ... More >>
IEA World Energy Outlook 2006: misguided solutions
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 10:20 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today criticised the IEA World Energy Outlook report as a wasted opportunity. While it is important that the IEA has finally recognised the need to drastically change the global energy supply in light of climate change, it has offered 'business ... More >>
Act Now to Save the Climate
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 9:48 am | Greenpeace
Nairobi, Kenya, November 6, 2006 – Greenpeace today issued an urgent call to Governments attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi to face reality and act urgently to avoid dangerous climate change. More >>
Minister indicates Marden B unlikely to happen
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 12:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The three Greenpeace activists, who scaled Marsden B power station on Saturday morning have been remanded on bail to appear in Auckland on 20 November. Michael Simpson, Emma Giles and Katrina Tamaira, were charged with being unlawfully upon a building ... More >>
Marsden B activists arrested
Saturday, 4 November 2006, 4:29 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Ruakaka, Saturday 4 November 2006, 2.30pm: Three Greenpeace activists who earlier this morning scaled the 60m Marsden B power station which is planned to convert to coal, have been arrested. Michael Simpson, Emma Giles and Katarina Tamaira were arrested ... More >>
Youth United Against Climate Change!
Friday, 3 November 2006, 11:21 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is very pleased to support and participate in the International Conference Of Youth 2 (COY2) and the African Youth Initiative On Climate Change (AYICC). Both conferences will be attended by 75 youth from Africa and beyond and will be held ... More >>
Governments must and can save the climate
Friday, 3 November 2006, 10:10 am | Greenpeace
Hamburg, Germany, November 2, 2006 - Greenpeace today released new photographs of rapidly melting glaciers in Europe to call upon the world's Governments attending next week's Climate Conference in Nairobi to 'wake up and smell the coffee'. The ... More >>
Ozone-friendly vaccine refrigerator in India
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 9:37 am | Greenpeace
New Delhi, 1 November 2006 -, the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, has become the first to buy a new environmentally-friendly solar-powered refrigerator called SolarChill, which can be used without an electrical supply and does not harm ... More >>
PM wrong to listen to coal man on climate change
Monday, 30 October 2006, 1:42 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is utterly flabbergasted that the Labour Party got advice at the weekend from one of Australia's pariahs of climate policy: the Queensland premier and coal man Peter Beattie. Queensland is the biggest coal exporting state in the world's ... More >>
Pressure to pull NZ trawl fleet from High Seas
Monday, 30 October 2006, 11:16 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, Monday 30 Oct 2006: An international coalition of more than 60 environmental groups has called on New Zealand to pull its bottom trawl fishing fleet out of the international waters of the South Pacific to protect deep-sea life. More >>
Greenpeace forced out of Apple Mac Expo
Friday, 27 October 2006, 12:32 am | Greenpeace
London, October 26, 2006 -Greenpeace's high profile 'Green my Apple' stall was shut-down today at the start of the Mac Expo (1) Organisers of the Mac Expo claimed they had received complaints from unnamed sources. The Greenpeace stall was bought for the ... More >>
EU leaders challenged to start energy revolution
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 2:19 pm | Greenpeace
Lahti, Finland, 20 October, 2006 - Today Greenpeace urged the European leaders meeting in Finland to stop relying on fuel imports and put renewable energy and energy efficiency at the core of their energy security discussions. The message "Energy Security ... More >>
Pirate Vessel In Port Of Suva
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 10:58 am | Greenpeace
SUVA, FIJI ISLANDS. OCTOBER 18, 2006 The Wen Teng No 688 a pirate vessel black-listed under the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATCC) (1)is in the port of Suva said Greenpeace Australia Pacific Oceans Team Leader Nilesh Goundar. More >>
Greenpeace condemns Icelandic whaling
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 10:46 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland-18 October 2006 -- The decision by Iceland to grant a commercial license to hunt whales makes no economic sense and should be revoked immediately, Greenpeace said today. More >>
Illegally Logged Wood On Sale At Local Stores
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 9:26 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland - 18th October 2006 -- Kwila decking and outdoor furniture is on sale at a store near you – but they cost the earth, Greenpeace warned today. Kwila imported into New Zealand is nearly all from illegal logging in Papua – Indonesia and Papua ... More >>
What EU Leaders can do for Energy Security
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 9:46 am | Greenpeace
European Heads of State, meeting in Lahti, Finland on October 20, will discuss the future of Europe's energy supply under the title of 'External Energy Relations'. This attempt to secure fuel imports from countries outside the European Union is, ... More >>
Mighty River Power must face inconvenient truth
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 2:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 12 October 2006: Greenpeace today heralded a decision by the High Court to allow climate change to be considered in its appeal against Mighty River Power's proposed Marsden B coal-fired power station. More >>
North Korean nuclear test condemned
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 2:54 pm | Greenpeace
Seoul, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 9 October 2006 - Greenpeace has condemned the underground testing of a nuclear weapon by North Korea. South Korea’s intelligence agency detected a 3.58 magnitude seismic tremor confirming the nuclear test announced ... More >>
US Outrage Over Nuke Testing Hypocritical
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 2:42 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Tuesday 10 October 2006 - Greenpeace says outrage by the United States over North Korea's underground testing of a nuclear weapon is hypocritical given that country's nuclear arsenal. More >>
