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Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 111]
Howard lacks courage to tackle climate change
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 3:13 pm | Greenpeace
Sydney Thursday, 12 January, 2006 : In response to Prime Minister Howard's statement this morning, Greenpeace climate and energy campaign leader, Catherine Fitzpatrick said: More >>
GP Ocean Defenders: And then there were two...
Friday, 23 December 2005, 9:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Blog post from Lally On board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in the Southern Ocean More >>
New Zealanders in whales confrontation
Thursday, 22 December 2005, 9:27 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, December 21, 2005: Greenpeace is tonight confronting the Japanese whaling fleet after finding it in the middle of slaughtering whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, south of New Zealand. More >>
Govt throws drowning polar bears a lump of coal
Wednesday, 21 December 2005, 4:25 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
**Auckland**, 20 December, 2005:* In the wake of the costliest disaster year on record (1), and scientific projections of more rapid temperature rises and more severe impacts from climate change the Government is going backwards on climate change action, says ... More >>
Explosion at Leningrad–due to bad management
Monday, 19 December 2005, 9:23 am | Greenpeace
St.Petersburg. 16 December 2005—Greenpeace today stated that bad management and the use of obsolete equipment are to be blamed for the explosion in the smelting furnace of Ekomet-C Nuclear Power Plant last night. Three persons were seriously injured ... More >>
Greenpeace ends protest against toxic Clemenceau
Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 11:12 am | Greenpeace
Toulon, France. 13 December 2005—Greenpeace today ended its protest against the French Navy air carrier Clemenceau when the remaining activist came down from the ship’s mast over 25 hours after the demonstration to end dirty ship breaking in Asia ... More >>
Greenpeace calls on France to scrap Clemenceau
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 9:39 am | Greenpeace
Toulon, France. 12 December 2005 – Four Greenpeace climbers today successfully climbed to top of the loading crane at the Port of Toulon, where the Clemenceau, a French Navy air carrier is berthed and preparing to depart to India where it will be finally ... More >>
Kyoto Protocol moves ahead
Monday, 12 December 2005, 3:56 pm | Greenpeace
Montreal, Canada 9 December 2005 - Greenpeace today congratulated the 157 countries, who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, as they moved the landmark climate change treaty towards deeper emissions reductions after 2012. More >>
Kyoto Protocol moves ahead as Bush's tactics fail
Sunday, 11 December 2005, 11:12 am | Greenpeace
Montreal, Canada 9 December 2005 - Greenpeace today congratulated the 157 countries, who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, as they moved the landmark climate change treaty towards deeper emissions reductions after 2012. More >>
Rainbow Warrior mooring lines severed
Friday, 9 December 2005, 9:26 am | Greenpeace
Map Ta Phut, Thailand, 8 December, 2005- Three Greenpeace crew members from the organisation's flagship the Rainbow Warrior today were dropped into the Map Ta Phut port waters after BLCP coal plant staff cut the ship's mooring lines while police refused to ... More >>
Greenpeace sets up second camp on coal plant pylon
Friday, 9 December 2005, 9:25 am | Greenpeace
Map Ta Phut, Thailand, 8 December, 2005- Seven Greenpeace climbers from around the world have set up a second camp on one of the BLCP coal plant's 60-metre electrical transmission pylons as its protest against the continued construction of the climate ... More >>
Greenpeace expands protest against coal, Thailand
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 3:50 pm | Greenpeace
Map Ta Phut, Thailand - Greenpeace activists from Thailand, the Philippines and the United States today set up camp outside the main gate of the BCLP coal power plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, to draw attention to its climate killing impact and the ... More >>
Stop climate killing coal plants in Thailand
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 3:41 pm | Greenpeace
Map Ta Phut, Thailand - With its flagship the Rainbow Warrior looking on, Greenpeace activists today climbed the loading crane of the BLCP coal plant at Map Ta Phut in Thailand and unfurled banners demanding the plant's immediate closure, calling on ... More >>
Industrialised countries are burning Asia's future
Monday, 5 December 2005, 5:12 pm | Greenpeace
Bangkok, Thailand, Industrialised countries must stop exporting climate change to developing countries if social, economic and environmental disaster is to be averted, according to a new Greenpeace report on the power sector in Asia and its impacts ... More >>
Toxic slick heads for Russia
Monday, 5 December 2005, 3:24 pm | Greenpeace
Russian-Chinese Border, Russian Federation — Eighteen days after an explosion at a chemical factory in Jilin Provence launched a huge 80 kilometer (50 mile) slick of cancer-causing benzene down the Songhua River, and nine days after the Chinese ... More >>
Illegal nuclear waste shipment blocked in France
Friday, 2 December 2005, 2:21 pm | Greenpeace
International — In a daring 2AM action, twenty Greenpeace activists have blocked the loading of illegal nuclear waste in France. More >>
National and Dunne misguided on carbon charge
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 4:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today condemned National's new campaign to abolish the carbon charge, and Peter Dunne's support for the move and urged National to get their facts straight. More >>
Blair nuclear announcement scuppered
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 3:19 pm | Greenpeace
London, United Kingdom — Greenpeace climbers scuppered Tony Blair's nuclear announcement by delaying the UK Prime Minister's planned pro-nuclear speech at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) annual conference. More >>
Time is Running Out!
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 9:28 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today unveiled a four metres tall hourglass outside the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal to remind the arriving delegates that time is running out. The climate summit - the first since the Kyoto Protocol entered into force - opens ... More >>
Greenpeace: Time is Running Out!
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 9:26 am | Greenpeace
Montreal, Canada - Greenpeace today unveiled a four metres tall hourglass outside the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal to remind the arriving delegates that time is running out. The climate summit - the first since the Kyoto Protocol entered ... More >>
