Greenpeace

Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice.

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.

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Email - info@greenpeace.org.nz
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Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 116]

Greenpeace welcomes plan for biggest wind farm

Thursday, 2 June 2005, 5:32 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland: Thursday 2 June 2005 -- Greenpeace today applauded Meridian Energy's plans for New Zealand's biggest wind farm, proposed near Wellington and called on Mighty River Power to follow suit, dump their plans for Marsden B coal-fired power station ... More >>

Nuclear ambitions trump disarmament at UN meeting

Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 10:23 am | Greenpeace

Greenpeace today condemned the lack of collective political will on the part of nearly 150 countries who failed to reach agreement on reducing the global arsenal of nuclear arms at the conclusion of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference ... More >>

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

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

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 >>