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Dow’s NZ Corporate Crime Revealed At Earth Summit
Wednesday, 28 August 2002, 1:47 pm | Greenpeace
Johannesburg, 28 August 2002: At the Earth Summit today, Greenpeace launched a damning report on industry corporate crime around the world, including a case study on the Dow Chemicals site in New Plymouth, New Zealand. The report is supported by an exhibition ... More >>
Halt GE Cows Until ERMA Reviewed
Tuesday, 27 August 2002, 3:01 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 27 July 2002: Greenpeace today called for a halt to AgResearch’s GE cow application in response to the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday that ERMA11 Environmental Risk Management Authority should be reviewed. More >>
Images: Oz Parliament Climate Change Protest
Tuesday, 20 August 2002, 10:30 pm | Greenpeace
Canberra/Auckland, Tuesday August 21, 2002: In a peaceful protest today, three Greenpeace climbers, including New Zealander Michael Simpson, scaled the flagpole at Parliament House in Canberra, urging the Australian Government to ratify Kyoto now. More >>
Greenpeace climbers scale Australian Parliament
Tuesday, 20 August 2002, 2:47 pm | Greenpeace
Canberra/Auckland, Tuesday August 21, 2002: In a peaceful protest today, three Greenpeace climbers, including New Zealander Michael Simpson, scaled the flagpole at Parliament House in Canberra, urging the Australian Government to ratify Kyoto now. More >>
Toxic Contamination In Floods Threatens Population
Friday, 16 August 2002, 9:39 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam/Prague, 15 August 2002 ¯Greenpeace today confirmed flooding at two dioxin-contaminated buildings at the Spolana chemical factory outside Prague. Ninety per cent of the company sites are under water and the mercury-contaminated area has been flooded ... More >>
GE corn reveals new MAF regime inadequate
Friday, 9 August 2002, 3:15 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 9 August, 2002: The second incident of GE corn grown in New Zealand would not have been prevented under the new Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) seed testing regime, Greenpeace stated today. More >>
Franz Josef Highlighted As Global Warming Casualty
Thursday, 8 August 2002, 11:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Svalbard, Arctic Circle/Auckland 8 August 2002: New Zealand’s Franz Josef glacier is one of six glaciers worldwide highlighted as showing signs of retreat from climate change, Greenpeace revealed today. More >>
Philippines Province Rejects Coal
Wednesday, 7 August 2002, 11:17 am | Greenpeace
Tuesday August 6, 2002, Manila: Philippine government officials confirmed today that the proposed 50 megawatt coal-fired power station for Pulupandan in the province of Negros was officially “dead” and that renewable energy was the solution to the ... More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes French Decision Against Areva
Tuesday, 6 August 2002, 2:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 6 August 2002: A decision in favour of Greenpeace by the French High Court has dealt a blow to Areva's attempt to use the law to censor criticism of the company. More >>
Greenpeace Chairman Steps Down
Friday, 2 August 2002, 2:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 2 August 2002: Gordon Jackman announced that he was stepping down as Chair of Greenpeace at the Board meeting held today in Auckland. More >>
Plutonium Ships Run From Protest
Monday, 22 July 2002, 10:22 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tasman Sea, July 22 2002. The Nuclear Free Flotilla successfully delivered its message of protest to the two armed UK nuclear freighters this morning, despite the freighters best efforts to sneak through the flotilla's line in the dead of night. More >>
Flotilla Stops Nuclear Shipment In Its Tracks
Sunday, 21 July 2002, 7:46 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tasman Sea, 21 July 2002 - Two-armed nuclear freighters have halted their passage through the Tasman Sea. They are expected to continue under the cover of darkness to avoid facing the strength of public opinion against plutonium shipments More >>
Scoop Image: Nuclear Flotilla Ready And Waiting
Sunday, 21 July 2002, 11:09 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Nuclear Free Pacific Flotilla pictured out in the Tasman sea yesterday. They expect to meet the MOX Nuclear Fuels shipment later in the day. More >>
Image: Greenpeace - Clarkies Corn Cover up - GE
Saturday, 20 July 2002, 5:40 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 20 July: Giant “Clarkies Corn Cover up” cans greeted Helen Clark on her campaign trail in Auckland today. The giant “Clarkies” cans, and a can-to-Parliament campaign launched by Greenpeace aim to demand Government accountability over the ... More >>
Fiji PM Calls For Support Over Nuclear Shipments
Thursday, 18 July 2002, 4:07 pm | Greenpeace
Fiji Prime Minister Calls On Support Of African And Caribbean Countries To Oppose Nuclear Shipments More >>
New Study Questions GE Food Safety
Thursday, 18 July 2002, 3:44 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
A new study on genetically engineered food rings alarm bells for human health, said Greenpeace today. The study questions approval systems for GE food, and validates concerns that GE food is untested and unsafe. More >>
Pacific Nations shown no respect
Thursday, 18 July 2002, 11:36 am | Greenpeace
Port Vila, Vanuatu July 17, 2002: The shipment of faulty plutonium mixed-oxide (MOX) has been caught by Greenpeace transiting through the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu waters, a blatant breach of the islands’ Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ). The ships ... More >>
Something Fishy About Norwegian Whale Export
Wednesday, 17 July 2002, 4:59 pm | Greenpeace
Auckland, July 16, 2002: "The export from Norway to Iceland of eight tonnes of whale meat is a cynical but clumsy attempt to force the rest of the world to restart the international trade in whale products," said John Frizell, Greenpeace Whale ... More >>
Plutonium Ships Ignore Pacific Opposition
Monday, 15 July 2002, 11:43 am | Greenpeace
Federated States of Micronesia, 13 July, 2002: British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) plutonium ships’ breached the Federated States of Micronesia’s 200 nautical miles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) at 9:50 this morning (FSM time) against that nations’ stated ... More >>
ERMA Corners Government
Monday, 15 July 2002, 11:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 12 July 2002: Statements made today by Bas Walker the head of ERMA that “at no stage have we said categorically there was no contamination” directly contradict the lines being peddled by Helen Clark and Marian Hobbs since information of the ... More >>
