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Iraq:US military radiation expert backs Greenpeace
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 8:47 am | Greenpeace
US military radiation expert backs Greenpeace call for full inspection of contaminated communities in Iraq More >>
Greenpeace Delivers Radioactive Contamination Back
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 8:30 am | Greenpeace
Baghdad, 24th June 2003: Greenpeace activists today confronted the occupying forces in Iraq with radioactive material collected near the Tuwaitha nuclear complex and called for a clean up of radioactive contamination of villages surrounding the plant, ... More >>
Shipload of dirty coal not the answer!
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 8:47 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace escalated the climate change and energy debate at Port Tauranga today as the first shipment of coal for Genesis' Huntly power station arrived from Indonesia. Inflatables sped to the bow of the 187m vessel Almar, and climbers hung a banner ... More >>
European Commission takes on dirty shipping indust
Friday, 20 June 2003, 10:11 am | Greenpeace
Brussels 19th June 2003: Greenpeace welcomed today’s announcement by EU Commissioner for the Environment, Margot Wallstrom, that the European Commission will act to make sure the shipping industry cleans its ships of hazardous materials before exporting ... More >>
Sanctuaries gain support but not enough
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 11:54 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday, June 18, 2003: Vote-buying by the Government of Japan at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Berlin has once again frustrated attempts by the peoples of the South Pacific and the South Atlantic to establish ... More >>
Berlin Initiative breaks IWC deadlock
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 11:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Tuesday June 17: In an inspiring move the 55th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Berlin Monday passed a resolution that makes conservation central to the work of the IWC and will help protect the world’s whales, dolphins ... More >>
Us-Led Gmo Lobby On The Defensive
Monday, 16 June 2003, 10:41 am | Greenpeace
Brussels. 14 June 2003 – The aggressive US-led campaign to force worldwide acceptance of genetically engineered food and seeds suffered a setback on Friday when Palau became the 50th country to ratify the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.[1] Greenpeace ... More >>
Coal Industry Deliberately Puts Planet in Peril
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 5:04 pm | Greenpeace
Coal Industry Deliberately Putting the Planet in Peril Balinese firewalkers carry globe over coal to protest against industry’s crimes against the environment. More >>
85% GE contamination: Inghams downright deceitful
Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 12:39 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday 11 June 2003: Inghams recent claims that their chicken products are GE free are contradicted by a new Greenpeace commissioned AgriQuality test today (1) showing that soy meal from the Aussie poultry and feed company contains 85% Monsanto ... More >>
Body Shop & Greenpeace Switch It On!
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 12:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Banks Peninsula, Tuesday 10 June, 2003: Greenpeace and the Body Shop have joined forces to launch a Switch postcard campaign calling on Helen Clark to lead the country to switch to 100% clean renewable energy supply by 2020, and away from polluting ... More >>
Berlin Whale Initiative Attracts Worldwide Support
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 12:17 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, June 10th, 2003: More than 30 conservation groups have signed on to a joint statement in support of a new initiative that would see the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moving conservation centre stage. Under the new initiative, which ... More >>
Inghams food product GE contaminated
Thursday, 5 June 2003, 9:23 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Thursday, 5 June 2003: Greenpeace today released results that show an Ingham frozen chicken product on sale in New Zealand is contaminated with genetically engineered (GE) soy ingredients (1). Earlier in the year, tests also revealed the ... More >>
Stop Gambling with our Nuclear Free Future!
Thursday, 29 May 2003, 4:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 29 May 2003 - Greenpeace today sent a pack of its nuclear playing cards to the Minster of Trade Negotiations and leaders of the opposition parties to remind them of the dangers posed by nuclear arsenals, and to demand that they stop playing ... More >>
The Grubby Side of Solid Energy
Thursday, 29 May 2003, 11:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 28 May 2003: Greenpeace criticised SOE Solid Energy for advocating so-called clean coal power stations and misleading the public about the dirty nature of it’s mining operations. More >>
Renewable Energy Future For NZ
Friday, 23 May 2003, 12:30 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
As the colder winter weather settles in, the Government has this week announced a plan to avoid future energy crises but it leaves the door wide open for more polluting fossil fuels that contribute to global warming and climate change. More >>
New Hope for Whales at IWC 55
Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 2:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, May 21st 2003: A new initiative to be introduced by 18 countries to this year’s June meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Berlin will greatly strengthen the ability of the IWC to protect the world’s cetaceans - whales, ... More >>
Missed opportunity in energy fiasco
Tuesday, 20 May 2003, 3:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today expressed disappointment that the Government missed the opportunity to lead New Zealand to a clean, renewable energy future in its reaction to the electricity crisis and has left the door open for more dirty old coal and its fossil fuel friends. More >>
Switch on to Renewable Energy
Thursday, 15 May 2003, 10:09 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
As the energy crisis deepens, Greenpeace today released its vision for a renewable energy future for New Zealand, and a paper outlining how wind and renewable energy can supply all our electricity needs. More >>
NZ Govt backs US war on European consumers
Wednesday, 14 May 2003, 3:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The New Zealand Government should immediately withdraw its support for the US case to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the de-facto genetic engineering (GE) moratorium in Europe. The case is an attack on the majority of European consumers, ... More >>
Aussie Labour Governments Stop GE Food Crops
Friday, 9 May 2003, 3:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
As the New Zealand Government pushes through legislation to further enable commercial release of genetically engineered (GE) crops, Australian state governments are ensuring that Australia will remain free from GE food crops for at least another year (1). More >>
