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Greenpeace Letter To McDonalds

Friday, 23 April 2004, 9:50 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Thank you for your letter of 2 April 2004. I write in response to some of the points you make regarding McDonalds policy on GE ingredients and feed. More >>

Basic rules for the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Friday, 23 April 2004, 8:36 am | Greenpeace

Basic rules for the Non-Proliferation Treaty States: negotiation and nuclear disarmament, not proliferation and war More >>

Ronald McDonald quits over GE chicken feed

Thursday, 22 April 2004, 2:45 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland: Ronald McDonald entered the Queen Street branch of McDonalds today and handed in his resignation. The dramatic action was taken by the infamous fast food clown in protest at McDonalds use of chicken fed on genetically engineered (GE) soy ... More >>

Survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster

Thursday, 22 April 2004, 9:01 am | Greenpeace

San Francisco, U.S, New Delhi, India, 19 April 2004 - Two women survivors from the world's worst industrial disaster -the Bhopal gas tragedy- have won one of the most prestigious international environmental awards. Dubbed the "Nobel Prize for ... More >>

Images: Ronald McDonald Quits Over GE Chicken

Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 4:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Ronald McDonald entered the Queen Street branch of McDonalds today and handed in his resignation. The dramatic action was taken by the infamous fast food clown in protest at McDonalds use of chicken fed on genetically engineered (GE) soy meal. ... More >>

Ronald McDonald quits over GE chicken feed

Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 1:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Ronald McDonald entered the Queen Street branch of McDonalds today and handed in his resignation. The dramatic action was taken by the infamous fast food clown in protest at McDonalds use of chicken fed on genetically engineered (GE) soy meal. More >>

Disney childrenswear contains hazardous chemicals

Friday, 16 April 2004, 8:59 am | Greenpeace

15 April 2004, Brussels - A Greenpeace report published today shows that chemicals that may present a long-term hazard to human health are present in Disney childrenswear. Disney garments, including T-shirts, pyjamas and underwear, were bought in retail ... More >>

Security means tackling corrupt Forest sectors

Tuesday, 6 April 2004, 11:08 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Tuesday, April 6, 2004: Greenpeace has called on John Howard, Helen Clark and Pacific leaders – meeting in Auckland today - not to ignore illegal logging and its corrupt trade, when discussing regional security and a vision for the Pacific in the 21st ... More >>

Coal Will Dig us a Deeper Hole

Tuesday, 30 March 2004, 12:02 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland, Tuesday 30 March, 2004: Greenpeace NZ welcomes Meridian Energy's announcement on Monday that it will not proceed with Project Aqua. More >>

Fed Farmers foist pro-GE lobbyist on grain growers

Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 1:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland, Wednesday 24 March 2004: Greenpeace today criticised the ongoing failure of Federated Farmers to offer a balance of views on genetic engineering (GE) by their plans to host and promote a pro-GE crop advocate in Ashburton this Friday. More >>

Exxon Valdez Disaster- An Ongoing History Of Lies

Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 9:11 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland 23rd March 2004: On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill, which saw 11 million gallons of oil being spilled into a pristine wilderness area in Alaska, Greenpeace demands that US oil giant ExxonMobil ... More >>

Greenpeace occupies timber ship in Belgium

Monday, 22 March 2004, 9:04 am | Greenpeace

Greenpeace occupies timber ship in Belgium in bid to save orang-utans and tigers from extinction More >>

Monsanto apply to have GE wheat allowed in NZ food

Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 4:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Monsanto has applied to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to allow genetically engineered wheat to be introduced into the New Zealand food chain. More >>

Dinosaur Decision for Dirty Old Coal Mine

Friday, 12 March 2004, 3:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Greenpeace is shocked with the Conservation Minister's approval today of a huge new coal mine at Pike River on the West Coast. More >>

Paris: Millions of people contaminated

Thursday, 4 March 2004, 8:54 am | Greenpeace

Paris -- Major failures in security arrangements for transports of weapons-usable plutonium across France pose an enormous environmental and health hazard, according to a study commissioned by Greenpeace International released today. The study reveals ... More >>

Greenpeace calls review safety of nuke reactors

Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 8:59 am | Greenpeace

Berlin, Germany -- Greenpeace Is calling on all nuclear safety authorities around the world to urgently review the safety of their reactors and to close the most vulnerable following the leak of a confidential German document, which shows no single nuclear ... More >>

Greenpeace Welcomes Agreement to Eliminate Poisons

Friday, 27 February 2004, 1:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland - Last night's announcement by the Minister for the Environment that the Stockholm Convention on deadly poisons will come into force in May is welcomed by Greenpeace New Zealand. More >>

Call for Urgent Presidential Action in Kalimantan

Thursday, 26 February 2004, 8:45 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Jakarta - As the Greenpeace blockade of Central Kalimantan illegal logging operations continued today, the organisation called for the Indonesian President, Mrs Megawati Sukarnoputri, to demand urgent enforcement from her police force. Greenpeace has ... More >>

World Bank, Pentagon: global warming red alert

Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 11:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

A world thrown into turmoil by drought, floods, typhoons. Whole countries rendered uninhabitable. The capital of the Netherlands submerged. The borders of the US and Australia patrolled by armies firing into waves of starving boat people desperate ... More >>

Blockade provokes expulsion of illegal log ship

Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 8:44 am | Greenpeace

Jakarta --.Greenpeace today assisted the Indonesian Navy expel an illegal log vessel, as part of a blockade in Central Kalimantan that has been ongoing for 10 days. The Ha Tinh 06, owned by the Vietnamese government and registered in Haiphong, has been ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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