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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 >>
We March! GE Free rally confirmed
Tuesday, 8 October 2002, 4:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace and the Auckland GE Free Coalition have confirmed a GE Free rally and march for November 16 in Auckland. More >>
Giant Auckland banner: Keep the Cup Nuclear Free
Tuesday, 8 October 2002, 3:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today 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. More >>
Greenpeace activists continue Areva protest
Monday, 7 October 2002, 10:03 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
For the second day on Friday Oct 4, Greenpeace handed information about Areva, anti-nuclear pennants and nuke-free NZ biscuits to the spectator boats watching the Louis Vuitton Cup. More >>
GE ‘Polluter Pays’ Principal Paramount
Monday, 7 October 2002, 9:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland Friday 4 October: “The suggestion by Pacific Seeds regional boss Howard Morris that New Zealand taxpayers should pay for the cost of someone else’s GE pollution is ridiculous,” said Steve Abel, Greenpeace GE campaigner. More >>
Welcome for Fonterra’s organic dairy
Thursday, 3 October 2002, 12:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 3 October 2002: Fonterra’s pursuit of organic dairy is good news for the environment, human and livestock health and New Zealand’s agricultural economy, Greenpeace said today. More >>
Greenpeace open letter to Areva
Wednesday, 2 October 2002, 4:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
My name is Bunny McDiarmid and I work for Greenpeace on the nuclear campaign. Our organisation is opposed to the activities of the company you represent because of the negative impact they have on human health and the environment and the serious ... More >>
Greenpeace targets French nuclear team in Auckland
Tuesday, 1 October 2002, 9:17 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: Greenpeace activists in kayaks protested nuclear company Areva’s involvement in the America’s Cup as DefiAreva left the Viaduct Basin today. More >>
River blockade to protest Amazon destruction
Friday, 20 September 2002, 9:11 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today joined close to 600 traditional Amazon rainforest communities in blocking the Jaraucu River to protest against forest destruction and demand the creation of an Extractive Reserve (1). Protesters unfurled a 17-meter banner, which read: ... More >>
Greenpeace alerts NZ farmers to GE disaster in US
Wednesday, 18 September 2002, 11:02 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A damning new report from the UK Soil Association demonstrates that GE food crops have been a practical and economic disaster, estimated to have cost the US economy at least NZ$ 25 billion between 1999 and 2001 in farm subsidies, lower crop prices, ... More >>
Flotilla peacefully protests plutonium ship
Wednesday, 18 September 2002, 7:52 am | Greenpeace
Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, Tuesday 17th September 2002, For the second time in as many days, yachts from the Nuclear Free Irish Sea Flotilla have protested the transport of nuclear materials through the Irish Sea. This morning at 8.30 a.m. six of the ... More >>
Brazilian companies steps to secure non- GE status
Monday, 16 September 2002, 9:50 am | Greenpeace
Brazilian food companies take steps to secure strict non- GE status Major meat exporter Perdigão bans GE from all products More >>
