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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 >>
AIAL shareholders: clean up your company’s act!
Wednesday, 30 October 2002, 5:09 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is asking AIAL shareholders for their proxy votes to support a resolution to get the company to clean up its act and close its dirty incinerator. More >>
Areva’s Plutonium Weapons Connection Revealed
Wednesday, 30 October 2002, 8:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland - Greenpeace activists inflated a 15 metre high balloon bomb outside the French base in the Viaduct Basin this morning. The inflatable bomb was tethered to large yellow barrels marked Areva –the French nuclear company sponsoring the French ... More >>
Revealing Areva’s Plutonium Weapons Connection
Tuesday, 29 October 2002, 2:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, October 29, 2002 - Greenpeace activists inflated a 15 metre high balloon bomb outside the French base in the Viaduct Basin this morning. The inflatable bomb was tethered to large yellow barrels marked Areva –the French nuclear company sponsoring ... More >>
Govt fails to connect energy and climate change
Thursday, 17 October 2002, 2:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: The Government’s final package of climate change policies, released today, shows a serious lack of intent in preventing dangerous climate change. The early depletion of Maui gas highlights the need for New Zealand to develop an energy strategy ... More >>
Iceland's membership of Whaling Com a threat
Tuesday, 15 October 2002, 10:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Amsterdam/Auckland, On the first day of the fifth Special Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Iceland was voted in by a single vote as a full member –even though, Iceland does not accept the current IWC moratorium on commercial whaling. ... More >>
Spectre of vote buying hangs over whaling talks
Monday, 14 October 2002, 5:30 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Amsterdam/Auckland: Vote buying by the Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ) has forced the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to convene a special meeting in Cambridge (UK) today, said Greenpeace. The special meeting, only the fifth in over 50 years, ... More >>
Russian Weapons Plutonium To Be Shipped To Europe
Monday, 14 October 2002, 10:03 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Amsterdam, 11 October 2002 - A plan quietly being pursued by nuclear industry interests to produce plutonium fuel from surplus Russian military plutonium poses a host of environmental and proliferation problems and must be rejected, according to Greenpeace ... More >>
Nuclear Free Tasman flotilla joins Areva protest
Friday, 11 October 2002, 4:08 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Spectator boats were greeted by Greenpeace inflatables and yacht Tiama with large anti- nuclear banners as nuclear company Areva boat Defi-Areva raced in the Louis Vuitton Cup today. More >>
Greenpeace Images: Keep The Cup Nuclear Free
Wednesday, 9 October 2002, 9:47 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace yesterday hung a banner from the cliffs of Torbay, Auckland with the message ‘Keep the Cup Nuclear Free’ to show opposition to the French nuclear industry’s involvement in the Cup. Greenpeace activists absailed down the face of the cliff to hang the ... More >>
