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Greenpeace Boards Single-Hull Tanker In Gibraltar
Tuesday, 21 January 2003, 8:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Algeciras Bay, Gibraltar 20 January, 2003. Greenpeace activists this morning boarded the single hulled oil tanker Vemamagna (1), anchored in Algeciras Bay to highlight the permanent presence of single hulled ships in the area. Activists from the Greenpeace ... More >>
Mothers Ask Important Questions About GE Cows
Friday, 17 January 2003, 3:40 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Friday 17 January 2003: Greenpeace today expressed its support for the proceedings filed in the High Court by Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE) against AgResearch’s human-gene-cow experiment approved by ERMA last year. More >>
Esso's attempt to cybercensor critics in court
Wednesday, 15 January 2003, 9:06 am | Greenpeace
A French court will tomorrow hear the next round in Esso's attempt to curtail freedom of expression on the internet. Greenpeace France is appealing a ruling by a Paris judge in favour of Esso France which ordered the environmental group to remove its ... More >>
Greenpeace confronts Dow Chemical with poison
Wednesday, 8 January 2003, 11:44 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 7th January 2003: At midday today, Greenpeace and survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, started returning poisonous waste collected from the disaster scene to its rightful owner, Dow Chemical. The waste was abandoned ... More >>
Greenpeace Activist News Vol. 2, No. 7
Tuesday, 10 December 2002, 2:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
In this issue, Dow and Bhopal, a victory for safe food, the latest on oil tankers, a new Exxon poster from Adbusters and an opportunity for the Webby awards. More >>
New Zealand Kyoto ratification vital to Protocol
Tuesday, 10 December 2002, 12:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 10 December 2002; New Zealand’s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change today means the Protocol only needs Russia for it to come into force.* More >>
New Zealand’s most popular food companies are GE f
Monday, 9 December 2002, 2:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
All five food companies and brands that appear in the top 10 of New Zealand’s most admired companies have non- GE ingredient policies. More >>
NZ must heed European baseline for GE labelling
Thursday, 5 December 2002, 4:23 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 5 December 2002: Greenpeace is calling on the Government to bring New Zealand’s GE labelling in line with the European Union’s strict new labelling legislation. The EU decision on labelling GE food and feed coincides with the one-year anniversary ... More >>
Oil Tanker Update
Thursday, 5 December 2002, 1:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace continues to campaign against unsafe oil tankers in the aftermath of the disastrous Prestige spill off the coast of Spain. More >>
Images: Bhopal Day At Dow Chemicals
Thursday, 5 December 2002, 1:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Images from the Greenpeace protest to mark Bhopal (International No Pesticides) Day commemorations earlier this week. See also… Dow must take responsibility for Bhopal for more background. The banner in the photos below reads "Life Poisoned Daily". More >>
Dow must take responsibility for Bhopal
Tuesday, 3 December 2002, 10:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Plymouth 3 December 2002: On the 18th anniversary of the world's worst chemical disaster, Greenpeace New Zealand joined groups in India and worldwide demanding that Dow takes responsibility for its toxic legacy in Bhopal, India. More >>
Emergency alert: Greenpeace oil action underway
Monday, 2 December 2002, 9:10 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists today blocked the oil tanker Byzantio in the port of Tallinn, Estonia, preventing it from leaving with its cargo of 50,000 tonnes of oil. The Byzantio is chartered by the same company that contracted the ill-fated oil tanker Prestige ... More >>
NZer arrested trying to cleanup Bhopal toxic waste
Tuesday, 26 November 2002, 10:13 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Delhi, 25 November 2002: Police brutally arrested 56 volunteers, including survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster and Greenpeace activists from 14 countries, to prevent them from cleaning up dangerous toxic waste in Bhopal. More >>
Cleaning up the shipping industry
Friday, 22 November 2002, 3:19 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
While the shock at the horrible ecological catastrophe off Spain is fresh in our minds, we should focus on solutions to address this problem. We may be largely helpless to do much about the spilled oil, but we can push national governments and the International ... More >>
Shareholders confront burning issue
Monday, 18 November 2002, 5:16 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
18 November 2002 - Greenpeace took the issue of pollution to the heart of Auckland International Airport Ltd’s (AIAL) shareholder accountability process today, through a shareholder resolution to the Annual General Meeting. More >>
“Pharming” Of Drug-Crops Puts Environment At Risk
Monday, 18 November 2002, 2:07 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace warned outdoors “pharming” of drug-crops puts US food chain and environment at risk More >>
Massive GE Free Rally shows opposition strong
Monday, 18 November 2002, 9:50 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
An estimated ten thousand plus people marched in saturday’s GE Free Rally, showing opposition to GE release is as strong as ever despite a year of government smokescreens on the issue. More >>
Another US GE contamination
Friday, 15 November 2002, 4:05 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 14 November: Reports of another major GE contamination in the US coincide with the deadline for MAF and HSNO submissions on the New Zealand Government’s plans for GE release. More >>
Protest Flotilla Meets Areva Outside Viaduct
Monday, 4 November 2002, 11:35 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 2 November 2002 - A flotilla of protest boats, kayaks and inflatables met Le Defi Areva as it left the Viaduct this morning on its way to race in the Louis Vuitton series. Twenty craft gathered at the entrance to the Viaduct flying anti-nuclear ... More >>
Protest Flotilla Meets Areva Outside Viaduct
Monday, 4 November 2002, 10:11 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 2 November 2002 - A flotilla of protest boats, kayaks and inflatables met Le Defi Areva as it left the Viaduct this morning on its way to race in the Louis Vuitton series. Twenty craft gathered at the entrance to the Viaduct flying anti-nuclear ... More >>
