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Rainbow Warrior to campaign on deep sea life
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 11:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Thursday 26 May 2005 In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace's flagship vessel leaves today for international waters around New Zealand to highlight the destructive impacts of bottom trawling More >>
Greenpeace pulls plug on dirty electronics co.s
Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 9:12 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Geneva, 23 May 2005 - Greenpeace called on dirty electronics companies to clean up their act today, starting with toxic tech giant, Hewlett-Packard. At 08.00 this morning, 15 Greenpeace activists delivered a truckload of electronic waste to the company's ... More >>
MusiciansTogether For Rainbow Warrior Tributute
Monday, 23 May 2005, 1:46 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
July 10, 2005 marks the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of The Rainbow Warrior in Auckland and in recognition a remarkable recording of The Muttonbirds' 'Anchor Me' will be released on July the 4th, with proceeds to Greenpeace. More >>
NZ Musicians Together for Rainbow Warrior Tribute
Monday, 23 May 2005, 12:07 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
July 10, 2005 marks the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of The Rainbow Warrior in Auckland and in recognition a remarkable recording of The Muttonbirds' 'Anchor Me' will be released on July the 4th, with proceeds to Greenpeace. More >>
UNFCC Seminar of Governmental Experts
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 10:27 am | Greenpeace
Upon the conclusion of the informal climate talks in Bonn, Greenpeace reacted positively to both the tone and content of the discussions about future action to combat the growing threat of climate change. "Most countries seem to be willing to move ... More >>
Greenpeace welcomes report - wind energy potential
Monday, 16 May 2005, 11:43 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: Monday, 16 May 2005: As Greenpeace made its submission to the Environment Court today in support of the Awhitu wind farm proposed at Waiuku, it also welcomed a report released today by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority demonstrating ... More >>
*Power Co. tries Greenwash
Thursday, 5 May 2005, 5:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace protesters and local Ruakaka residents who would be affected by the proposed Marsden B coal-fired power station that MRP are pushing as “sustainable”, handed out leaflets which mocked MRP’s claims to sustainability to delegates. More >>
Power Co. Greenwash at Sustainability Conference
Thursday, 5 May 2005, 10:51 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Thursday, 5 May 2005: Two "fast-spin" green-washing machines and a clothesline of green T-shirts emblazoned 'Coal', 'Mercury', 'Arsenic' and 'Climate Change' greeted the head of Mighty River Power (MRP) as he entered the Sustainability ... More >>
Power Co. tries Greenwash at Conference
Thursday, 5 May 2005, 10:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Thursday, 5 May 2005: Two "fast-spin" green-washing machines and a clothesline of green T-shirts emblazoned 'Coal', 'Mercury', 'Arsenic' and 'Climate Change' greeted the head of Mighty River Power (MRP) as he entered the Sustainability ... More >>
Carbon tax doesn't reflect urgency on climate: Gr
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 11:47 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, 4 May 2005: The carbon tax, while a welcome baby step, will not stop polluting, coal-fired power projects like Marsden B and our greenhouse gas emissions will still continue to climb, Greenpeace said today. More >>
Last chance for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 8:38 am | Greenpeace
Tensions on the first day of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference currently being held in New York are threatening to derail the relevance of the treaty, Greenpeace warned today. More >>
Greenpeace Uncovers Illegal GE Rice On Market
Monday, 2 May 2005, 10:59 am | Greenpeace
Just two weeks after Greenpeace exposed the illegal selling and planting of genetically engineered (GE) rice in Hubei province, a research paper published today in Science magazine (1) describes what appear to be unregulated trials of the same GE rice (Shanyou ... More >>
Greenpeace: The True Cost of Coal
Friday, 29 April 2005, 10:19 am | Greenpeace
Hong Kong, 28 April 2005 - Shareholders in the billion dollar China Light and Power (CLP) company were today confronted with the real cost of burning fossil fuels. Greenpeace activists and people from communities suffering the devastating impacts from coal ... More >>
EU At Crossroads - Clean Or Dirty Energy?
Thursday, 28 April 2005, 9:35 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Madrid, 27th April 2005-The stranglehold that a small number of energy companies have over the whole of the European Union is being challenged in a new Greenpeace report launched in Spain today (1). The ten largest companies (2) are responsible ... More >>
500 "bombspotters" arrested at nuke inspection
Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 8:47 am | Greenpeace
500 "bombspotters"were arrested by police today after thousands gathered in Belgium to carry out a citizens nuclear weapons inspection. More >>
Greenpeace calls for nuclear -free NATO
Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 8:45 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace will join with Bombspotting activists today to make "citizen inspections" of three military facilities in Belgium in a symbolic action aimed at pressuring NATO member states to renounce their nuclear weapons arsenal. More >>
*Mighty River Power - full of hot air*
Friday, 15 April 2005, 5:46 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
*Auckland** Friday 15 April 2005:* Greenpeace labelled Mighty River Power’s sponsorship of today’s /Balloons over the Waikato /(1) event as blatant greenwashing. More >>
*Mighty River Power - full of hot air*
Friday, 15 April 2005, 3:30 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
*Auckland** Friday 15 April 2005:* Greenpeace labelled Mighty River Power’s sponsorship of today’s /Balloons over the Waikato /(1) event as blatant greenwashing. More >>
EU must prevent environmental catastrophe in Asia
Friday, 15 April 2005, 2:39 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, Valetta, 14 April 2005 - A week after the global ban on single hull oil tankers there are still such ships that operate outside the law on seas worldwide. As a matter of fact, nobody knows how many of these should be out of waters as of ... More >>
Plutonium shipment exposes U.S. Nuke Hypocrisy
Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 3:12 pm | Greenpeace
Charleston, South Carolina, 12 April 2005 - A ship containing a cargo of experimental nuclear fuel made from weapons-grade plutonium arrived in the United States today after an 4000 mile round trip to France and back. The cargo, the first of its kind ... More >>
