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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 >>
The good the bad and the ugly of Hodgson’s RMA
Thursday, 7 August 2003, 2:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Thursday 7 August 2003: Greenpeace today welcomed some parts of Pete Hodgson’s proposed Resource Management Act (RMA) amendments, but expressed grave concern over the gaping holes in climate protection left by key proposals. More >>
Former UK Environment Minister Speak s On GM In NZ
Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 10:00 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 4 August 2003: Former British Environment Minister Michael Meacher is visiting New Zealand to speak about the release of genetically modified (GM) crops. More >>
Companies In China Clear GE Food Off Their Shelves
Monday, 21 July 2003, 10:01 am | Greenpeace
Thirty-two food producers operating in China today announced they are now officially committed to not selling genetically engineered (GE) food in China. This is the first time food producers have publicly committed to such a policy in China, the largest ... More >>
Government Emits Hypocrisy Over Eco-Friendly Winds
Wednesday, 16 July 2003, 1:46 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 16 July 2003. Greenpeace today hammered Government hypocrisy at the treatment of different winds: a levy for foul farming flatulence, support for a greenhouse gas generation plant and woeful will toward windfarms. More >>
Italian seed contamination scandal
Friday, 11 July 2003, 8:43 am | Greenpeace
Piemonte, Italy - 10 July 2003-- Government officials and farmers leaders in the region of Piemonte Northern Italy are meeting today to decide what to do with 400 hectares of GE contaminated maize and how to prevent further contamination from the ... More >>
Greenpeace survey food companies on GE ingredients
Tuesday, 8 July 2003, 5:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 8 July 2003: Greenpeace will tomorrow mail 370 New Zealand food companies, asking them to declare their policy of excluding GE crop ingredients such as corn, soy and canola. The results will be published online and in the fourth edition of ... More >>
Ms Hobbs wake up call press release
Monday, 7 July 2003, 4:42 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Pizza contamination has everything to do with GE moratorium and threatens billion-dollar clean green brand More >>
Spanish Govt. Reduces Bond For Rainbow Warrior
Monday, 7 July 2003, 9:23 am | Greenpeace
Madrid, Spain. 4 July 2003—Greenpeace received word this afternoon, that the Government of Spain through its Ministry of Public Works and Transport has resolved to lower the bond that was placed on the organisation’s flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, from ... More >>
Japanese Pizza Incident Major Wake Up Call
Saturday, 5 July 2003, 12:35 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Japanese pizza incident major wake up call – unpredictable nature of GE release dawns on Hobbs More >>
Tuwaitha radiation to heart of U.S. admin in Iraq
Saturday, 5 July 2003, 12:31 am | Greenpeace
Baghdad, Iraq, July 4th 2003 - Greenpeace activists today brought the head of the US civil administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer, a container of radioactive uranium 'yellowcake', found abandoned in the community outside the Tuwaitha nuclear facility, ... More >>
NZers At Risk From World’s Most Deadly Toxins
Friday, 4 July 2003, 1:17 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Zealanders remain at risk from some of the world’s most deadly toxins by weak Government legislation. More >>
