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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 >>
Acclaimed writers on Greenpeace tour of threatened
Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 3:10 pm | Greenpeace
Helsinki. 12 April 2005 - A group of acclaimed European writers will today join Greenpeace on a tour of northern Finland to witness first hand the destruction of ancient forests. The forests are being decimated to make pulp and paper for the international market. ... More >>
Wind could supply 10% of electricity in Europe
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 8:29 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 4 April 2005 - Launched today, the Greenpeace report "Offshore Wind - Implementing a new Power House for Europe" is a strategic blueprint that outlines how offshore wind farms will be able to supply about 10% of Europe's electricity ... More >>
Nuclear Waste Shipment in the Tasman
Friday, 1 April 2005, 1:31 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland -- Friday 1 April 2005 -- A ship carrying high level radioactive waste is expected to be going through the Tasman as early as this weekend, Greenpeace warned today. More >>
U.S. plutonium transport arrives in Normandy
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 11:57 am | Greenpeace
Paris, 15 March 2005 - A cargo of 140 kilograms of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium (1) has completed the first leg of its controversial journey from France to the U.S. The armed convoy left the Areva plutonium fuel factory at Marcoule, north of Avignon, ... More >>
Japan: Greenpeace Protest Against American Airbase
Monday, 14 March 2005, 9:14 am | Greenpeace
Henoko, Okinawa (Japan) – Today a flotilla of fishing boats and Greenpeace joined in a protest at sea at the proposed site of a new American military airbase. The proposed base would be built on top of a coral reef, destroying important marine ... More >>
Greenpeace activist threatened with death
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 8:21 am | Greenpeace
Vienna, 8 March 2005 - Greenpeace activist and leading nuclear opponent in Bulgaria, Albena Simeonova, has received threats on her life due to her public opposition to the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belene, north of the country. The environmental ... More >>
Mighty River should listen to Genesis - Greenpeace
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 2:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Today's announcement from Genesis Energy that it's putting on hold its plans to build two coal-fired power stations at Huntly should be taken on board by Mighty River Power with Marsden B, Greenpeace said today. More >>
Greenpeace takes to Sami reindeer forests
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 8:20 am | Greenpeace
Inari, Lapland/Amsterdam 02 March 2004: Greenpeace today announced that it would be stepping up its campaign to protect remaining ancient forests in Finland by establishing a Forest Rescue Station in the last Sámi reindeer forests of Arctic Lapland. This ... More >>
Activists To Descend From MarsdenB 9 Day Protest
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 8:55 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Ruakaka, Thursday 24 February, 2005: This morning, on the ninth successive day of occupation, the remaining trio of originally four activists who ascended Marsden B early on the morning of Wednesday 16 - the day Kyoto came into force - will be ... More >>
New Zealand's Kyoto Integrity At Stake
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 5:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
It is extremely concerning that the Government does not consider a near-doubling of our C02 emissions from coal-fired power stations an issue of national significance. More >>
