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Listen to Your Commissioner for the Environment
Monday, 24 July 2006, 5:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace calls on the Government to heed the recommendations from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment and to intervene immediately and stop a proposal for a coal fired burning power station – Marsden B. More >>
Attack on Environmentalists Attacks Kiwi Values
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 4:17 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says the attack on environmentalists by Federated Farmers is an attack on all Kiwis who value our clean and green environment. “Ultimately we all benefit from a healthy environment; where we work, live and play. More >>
Policy hole big enough to drive station through
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 12:30 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has condemned the huge hole in policies to manage New Zealand’s greenhouse gas pollution, after the Environment Court ruled against part of Greenpeace’s appeal opposing the re-firing of Marsden B power station on coal, saying that the effects ... More >>
Marine Reserves needed to protect sea's fish stock
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 8:50 am | Greenpeace
Athens, Wednesday, July 12, 2006--Greenpeace today warned that the illegal killing of scores of whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean sea will continue until Mediterranean countries get serious about enforcing a long standing ban on illegal driftnet fishing ... More >>
Blair’s Energy Review: Save the Nuclear Industry
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 8:23 am | Greenpeace
London, U.K., July 11 2006 – Greenpeace warned today that the UK Government’s Energy Review published today will neither solve Britain’s energy problems nor help meet its commitment to reduce carbon emissions. More >>
You Control Climate Change
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 11:59 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Thursday 6 July 2006 – Whilst the New Zealand Government is developing a work programme for its climate change and energy policies, Greenpeace is hitting the streets with its Clean Energy Guide which ranks electricity companies according ... More >>
Greenpeace: NGO leaders take it to Putin
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:19 am | Greenpeace
Moscow, 4 July 2006 - Energy security requires an energy revolution to save the climate was the message that Greenpeace took to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with international NGO leaders at the Novo-Ogarevo presidential residence ... More >>
Cracked reactor cores have "increased risk"
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:11 am | Greenpeace
London, International July 5 2006: Nuclear power stations operated by British Energy (BE) in the UK are structurally defective and their continued operation is increasing the risk of a radioactive accident, according to documents written by the Government's ... More >>
Greenpeace International: North Korea Missile Test
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:09 am | Greenpeace
London, International, July 5 2006 -"The dormant volcano of north Asia's military ambitions can only be prevented from eruption by concerted international diplomacy coupled with long term negotiations on nuclear disarmament. More >>
NGO leaders take it to Putin
Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 2:10 pm | Greenpeace
Energy security requires an energy revolution to save the climate was the message that Greenpeace took to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with international NGO leaders at the Novo-Ogarevo presidential residence outside ... More >>
Positive start on climate policy – test to come
Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 5:08 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says there are many positive aspects, including the important role of renewable energy in the Government’s recently announced climate and energy policy programmes. However, there are also some areas of concern which could distract attention ... More >>
Greenpeace rounds up 'wall of death' fishing nets
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 3:18 pm | Greenpeace
Italy, June 23, 2006-- Greenpeace activists aboard the Rainbow Warrior early this morning confronted Italian fishing pirates in the Mediterranean sea, some 65 kilometres south of the Italian island of Ponza, confiscating a section of the 8 kilometre long ... More >>
Taxpayers and consumers to pay for pollution
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 2:33 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam/Hamburg, 23 June 2006 - Today Greenpeace criticized the Governments of Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom for their failure to mandate serious cuts in CO2 emissions from their industrial and energy sectors.[JdB1] A new report, ... More >>
Whalers Win Vote Towards Commercial Whaling
Monday, 19 June 2006, 12:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
St Kitts/Auckland, Monday 19 June 2006: Japan and the whaling lobby have finally gained a simple majority vote at the IWC. The IWC passed by one vote (1) a declaration (2) that the "IWC has failed to meet its obligations…" its commitments to "normalizing ... More >>
Whalers fail to harpoon conservation at IWC
Sunday, 18 June 2006, 2:04 pm | Greenpeace
StKitts and Nevis:16 June 2006: Greenpeace today breathed a sigh of relief as pro-whaling nations led by Japan failed to gain a majority during the opening day of the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) annual meeting, in St Kitts. The international environmental ... More >>
Greenpeace Ship Banned from St Kitts
Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 12:06 am | Greenpeace
St Kitts, Caribbean/Auckland, Wednesday 14 July 2006: The Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise has been refused entry to St Kitts, where it was due to arrive two days ago, ahead of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting that will begin on Friday. ... More >>
Radioactive Waste Leak in Champagne Water Supply
Thursday, 8 June 2006, 2:45 pm | Greenpeace
Radioactive Waste Leaking into Champagne Water Supply PARIS - May 30 - Greenpeace today revealed that France's iconic sparkling wine, Champagne, is threatened by radioactive contamination leaking from a nuclear waste dumpsite in the region. Low levels of ... More >>
10 football pitches of ocean floor devastated each 4 secs
Thursday, 8 June 2006, 2:44 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam 7th June 2006 - As the kick-off to the football world cup approaches, Greenpeace has revealed the shocking fact that every four seconds, marine life in an area of ocean floor the size of ten football fields is wiped out by high seas bottom trawlers. ... More >>
De Villepin visit to reactor project protested
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 10:05 am | Greenpeace
Helsinki, Monday June 5th 2006 - Greenpeace activists this morning protested during the visit of the French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to Finland. Activists raised an inflatable nuclear reactor in front of the parliament with the banner: ... More >>
Pacific nations have opportunity to end whaling
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 3:29 pm | Greenpeace
Sydney, Tuesday 30 May, 2006: Greenpeace today urged Pacific Island nations to vote for whale conservation at the upcoming International Whaling Commission (IWC), as Environment Minister Ian Campbell today travels to the Pacific in a bid to secure ... More >>
