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Protecting Ancient Forests at Frankfurt Book Fair
Thursday, 9 October 2003, 9:44 am | Greenpeace
Frankfurt, October 8, 2003. "The Greenpeace Book Campaign", a new international initiative, has been launched today at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Internationally renowned authors such as Margaret Atwood, Helen Fielding and Kirsten Boie have already joined ... More >>
New RMA Rules Abused for Giant New Coal Mine
Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 9:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Today Greenpeace slammed the first big failure of Marian Hobbs' new Resource Management Act amendments. In the first publicly known example of the RMA's new "limited notification" rules, a giant new Waikato coal mine, Awaroa 4, is being ferreted ... More >>
Labour - Don’t Soil Our Image
Tuesday, 30 September 2003, 4:23 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday 30 September, 2003: Today the Labour caucus was prevented from leaving Premier House as Greenpeace attempted to dump tonnes of soil at both entrances with tip-trucks. More >>
Taranaki Fossil Fools Promote Burning Fossil Fuels
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 2:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday 24 September 2003: Greenpeace has criticised Taranaki lines company Powerco plans for burning gas for electricity. The concept is being reported as “environmentally friendly” [The Daily News, 22 September 2003]. More >>
Greenpeace Stops Corn GMOs entering Mexico
Monday, 15 September 2003, 10:31 am | Greenpeace
September 12, 2003, Veracruz, Mexico: As the World Trade Organisation meeting in Mexico looks set to leave developing companies at the mercy of the US and biotech companies like Monsanto, Greenpeace stopped the first shipment of genetically engineered ... More >>
USA and EU sink the WTO round in Cancun
Monday, 15 September 2003, 9:31 am | Greenpeace
USA and EU sink the WTO round in Cancun - Greenpeace call on governments to create a new trade system More >>
Huge Auckland GE-Free March Planned Saturday Oct11
Friday, 12 September 2003, 9:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has today announced they support the call by Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE) for a march up Queen St on Saturday 11 October demanding an extension to the GE moratorium. More >>
GE Fed Chickens Cannot Be Called GE Free
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 10:09 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Tuesday, 9 Sept 2003, 5.30pm: Greenpeace responded to Inghams claims today that chickens fed on GE feed are GE free, as absolutely misleading. Mike Rozen of Inghams claims that “The use of this [GE] feed does not compromise the absolute GM-free ... More >>
Images: Climbers Shut Down GE Feed Mill
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 1:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, 9 September 2003: Greenpeace activists today shut down the Inghams/Harvey Farms feed mill in Hamilton, demanding that the Aussie owned poultry and feed company stop importing genetically engineered (GE) soy for animal feed. More >>
Greenpeace Climbers shut down GE feed mill
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 11:49 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace activists today shut down the Inghams/Harvey Farms feed mill in Hamilton, demanding that the Aussie owned poultry and feed company stop importing genetically engineered (GE) soy for animal feed. More >>
Unique Whale Offer to Icelandic Government
Monday, 8 September 2003, 9:47 am | Greenpeace
Reykjavik, Iceland 5 September 2003: The arrival of the Rainbow Warrior in Iceland today launched a public tour that will take the ship around the small North Atlantic Island. At the same time Greenpeace presented an offer to the Icelandic Government, ... More >>
Greenpeace: Crop & Food don't know their onions
Tuesday, 26 August 2003, 11:45 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Friday 22 August 2003: Greenpeace expressed surprise today on finding that Crop and Food Lincoln seem confused about the taxonomic classification of the common onion (Allium cepa L.). More >>
Greenpeace halts Huntly coal import from unloading
Friday, 22 August 2003, 4:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tauranga, 21 August 2003; 4.00pm - Greenpeace activists boarded the vessel Atermon today as it berthed in Port Tauranga, preventing 30,000 tonnes of coal from being unloaded. The Indonesian coal is to be burnt at Genesis’s Huntly Power Station, fuelling ... More >>
Tauranga Coal Action Update
Friday, 22 August 2003, 9:45 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tauranga, 21 August 2003; 10.00pm - Three Greenpeace activists successfully climbed on to and hung from the port side of the vessel Atermon as it berthed at 4.00pm today in Port Tauranga, preventing 30,000 tonnes of coal from being unloaded. More >>
Greenpeace halts Huntly coal import from unloading
Friday, 22 August 2003, 8:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tauranga, 21 August 2003; 4.00pm - Greenpeace activists boarded the vessel Atermon today as it berthed in Port Tauranga, preventing 30,000 tonnes of coal from being unloaded. The Indonesian coal is to be burnt at Genesis’s Huntly Power Station, fuelling ... More >>
NZ Leads Pacific Sell Out On Nuclear Shipments
Monday, 18 August 2003, 10:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace accuses NZ of gutting the region’s momentum to stop nuclear shipments through the Pacific. More >>
NZ Sacrifices Pacific On Nuclear Shipments
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 5:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 14 August 2003: In a blatant attempt to weaken the Pacific's resolve to stop nuclear shipments, New Zealand officials at the Pacific Islands Forum have pushed to have legal and political steps to protect the region from nuclear shipments dropped. More >>
GREENPEACE: Pacific 'Forum Nius' Issue 3
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 12:20 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
In this issue: The 'Do Nothing' Option - making nuclear shipments possible Question of the Day Healthy Oceans Include Whales More >>
GREENPEACE: Forum Nius Issue 2
Wednesday, 13 August 2003, 10:13 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
In this issue: No Transparency at PIF – NGOs denied access Don’t Be Fooled: Look at the Facts on Nuclear Shipments Solar Café Opens Again More >>
US Desperately Bullys New Zealand
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 3:46 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has called the latest attempts by the US Undersecretary of Commerce to undermine New Zealand's nuclear free legislation as desperate bullying. US Under- Secretary Grant Aldonas accused New Zealand of preventing them from fighting terrorism ... More >>
