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Atlantic Fisheries Crisis A Warning For Pacific
Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 3:31 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
As major fishing nations sit down around the table in Estonia, today to further divide up the dwindling fish stocks of the once rich waters of the Northwest Atlantic, Greenpeace warned that the same could happen to Pacific fisheries. More >>
Greenpeace exposes pirate fishing on the Arctic
Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 9:24 am | Greenpeace
Barents Sea, 19 September 2005--Greenpeace today stopped the Togo-flagged, factory trawler 'Murtosa', from illegally fishing for cod in the international section of the Barents Sea known as the "Loophole". Campaigners on board the Greenpeace ... More >>
Greenpeace welcomes Waiuku wind farm win
Friday, 9 September 2005, 1:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today applauded the Environment Court's decision to allow the Awhitu wind farm, at Waiuku near Auckland to go ahead. More >>
IAEA deliberately downplays Chernobyl death toll
Friday, 9 September 2005, 10:19 am | Greenpeace
Geneva, Switzerland, 7 September 2005 - Greenpeace, today, accused the International Atomic Energy Agency of deliberately trying to down play the death toll of the Chernobyl accident as part of the nuclear industry's continued attempt to portray itself as ... More >>
Greenpeace shuts down Europe's largest coal port
Friday, 9 September 2005, 10:18 am | Greenpeace
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 8 September 2005 - The Greenpeace ship "Argus" today protested at Europe's largest coal import harbour in Rotterdam blocking cranes from unloading imported coal from South Africa, Indonesia, US and Australia. The ... More >>
Connell, National at loggerheads over forestery
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 2:41 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The National Party's spokesperson on Forestry, Brian Connell, has misled the New Zealand public on his forestry policy, Greenpeace said today. More >>
Biofuels target step in right direction
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 3:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
*Auckland, Tuesday 30 August:* Greenpeace today welcomed the Government’s announcement on a mandatory sales target for biofuels as a small step in the right direction. More >>
Argentinean ancient forests trashed for GE Soya
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 9:55 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace 'Jaguars' using motorbikes and helicopters place themselves between bulldozers and forest Pozo del Tumé, Salta, Argentina. 29 August 2005 - Greenpeace today stopped two bulldozers from clearing the forest to expand the GE Soya frontier further into ... More >>
Greenpeace occupies Turkish coal power plant
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 9:54 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Canakkale, Turkey. 29 August 2005 - Greenpeace activists today scaled the cooling tower at state-owned 'Can' coal-fired power station (1) in protest at the Turkish Government's continuing obsession with fossil fuel energy sources despite their proven ... More >>
Labour's Fisheries Policy Gets Mostly Thumbs Up
Monday, 29 August 2005, 2:19 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Monday 29 August 2005: Today Greenpeace congratulated the Minister of Fisheries for taking the issue of bottom trawling and New Zealand's role in governance of international waters seriously, following the release of Labour's Fisheries Policy. More >>
Voting for your future
Monday, 29 August 2005, 1:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Vote for the Environment: ECO, Forest & Bird, Greenpeace launch vote for the environment ratecard for elections More >>
Greenpeace Alarmed At DOC Withdrawal
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 4:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 10 August, 2005 – Greenpeace today said it was alarmed to learn that the Department of Conservation has pulled back from its opposition to Marsden B after meetings were quietly held with Mighty River Power. More >>
60 years after Hiroshima, renewed call for peace
Friday, 5 August 2005, 10:57 am | Greenpeace
Hiroshima, 5 August 2005 - On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Greenpeace renewed its call to world leaders to make real their decades old commitments to nuclear disarmament and for the Japanese government ... More >>
Greenpeace Says U.S. Climate Pack Is A Trade Deal
Friday, 29 July 2005, 9:39 am | Greenpeace
Responding to the recent announcement by the USA of a six nation 'pact' on climate change, Greenpeace Climate Campaigner Stephanie Tunmore said: More >>
The cod has gone, the rest is next
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 10:34 am | Greenpeace
Halifax, Canada, 25 July 2005 - The Greenpeace ship Esperanza arrived in the Northwest Atlantic today to document the indiscriminate devastation of deep-sea marine ecosystems caused by the most destructive of all industrial fishing methods - high seas bottom ... More >>
Greenpeace Condemn Brash Over Carbon Tax
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 3:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today condemned Brash and the National Party's statement to the fishing industry, that they would drop the carbon tax. More >>
Bush remains out in cold on climate change at G8
Monday, 11 July 2005, 10:22 am | Greenpeace
Gleneagles, UK, 8 July 2005 - The Group of Eight communiqué issued by world leaders at their summit in Gleneagles today highlights the divisions between President Bush and the rest of the world on tackling climate change. More >>
A peace symbol to commemorate victims of terrorism
Monday, 11 July 2005, 10:15 am | Greenpeace
20th Anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior Greenpeace creates a symbol of peace in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower to commemorate victims of terrorism More >>
Rainbow Warrior Commemoration Pictures
Monday, 11 July 2005, 9:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A collection of photographs showing the recent commemorations associated with the anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior. More >>
Getting real on climate change
Friday, 8 July 2005, 4:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today called for some sanity in the debate over New Zealand's potential Kyoto deficit, following the release of new report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers which calculated that it may cost $1.2 billion to meet our Kyoto obligations. More >>
