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Image: Greenpeace Closes Down Auckland Incinerator

Monday, 17 June 2002, 11:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

17 June 2002 Greenpeace activists on the Waste Resources Ltd incinerator stack in South Auckland, New Zealand. See also: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0206/S00083.htm © 2001 Greenpeace / Moon AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND More >>

Greenpeace Closes Down Auckland Incinerator

Monday, 17 June 2002, 8:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

June 17 Auckland: Greenpeace New Zealand initiated a global day of action against incineration by shutting down Waste Resources Limited’s Auckland waste incinerator in the early hours of this morning. More >>

Plutonium Ships Arrive In Japan

Monday, 17 June 2002, 8:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

June 14 Fukui, Japan/Auckland NZ - An armed British nuclear transport ship, the Pacific Pintail, was met by protests from Greenpeace and Japanese anti-nuclear activists as it arrived today at the nuclear reactor port of Takahama, Japan. More >>

Greenpeace Incinerator Activists Charged

Monday, 17 June 2002, 12:03 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

June 17 Auckland: Three Greenpeace activists were arrested and charged with trespass and unlawfully being upon a building after shutting down the Waste Resources Limited’s Auckland waste incinerator early this morning. More >>

GE debate bigger than electioneering

Friday, 14 June 2002, 1:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Friday 14 June, Auckland. Political posturing is further degrading the quality of debate on genetic engineering said Greenpeace today. More >>

Chinese Experience Adverse With GE Bt Cotton

Monday, 10 June 2002, 2:29 pm | Greenpeace

Beijing/London – A Greenpeace report reviewing Chinese experience of genetically engineered (GE) Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton shows adverse environmental impacts after just five years of commercial growing, concluding that the variety will be ... More >>

Greenpeace & Body Shop Renewable Energy Campaign

Friday, 7 June 2002, 10:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland, Wednesday June 7, 2002: Greenpeace and The Body Shop joined forces today to launch an international campaign in the lead up to the Johannesburg Earth Summit, calling on world leaders to increase support for renewable energy to the developing ... More >>

Adverse Environmental Impacts, BT Cotton In China

Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 9:51 am | Greenpeace

Beijing/London, 3 June, 2002 – A Greenpeace report reviewing Chinese experience of genetically engineered (GE) Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton shows adverse environmental impacts after just five years of commercial growing, concluding that the variety ... More >>

EU Ratification Of Kyoto Confirms NZ On Right Path

Friday, 31 May 2002, 6:23 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland: Friday, 31 May 2002 – The European Union will today ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in New York. Greenpeace applauded the EU’s decision to show leadership on climate change and New Zealand’s decision not to forfeit its responsibilities ... More >>

War Over Whales

Monday, 27 May 2002, 9:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Shimonoseki, Japan/ Auckland, May 24, 2002: The democratic process took a pummeling again today at the IWC when the aboriginal peoples of the Inuit and Chukotka were denied their quota for a second time. More >>

IWC – Whale Management Plans Defeated

Friday, 24 May 2002, 11:26 am | Greenpeace

Shimonoseki, Japan/Auckland, New Zealand May23rd 2002: Proposed management plans for whaling by Japan and Sweden were rejected by the IWC today. More >>

IWC -- Aboriginal whaling rights denied

Thursday, 23 May 2002, 6:56 pm | Greenpeace

IWC -- Aboriginal whaling rights denied Shimonoseki Japan/Auckland, Thursday 23 May, 2002: Today Antigua and Barbuda, Mongolia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, Guinea, Gabon, Benin, the Solomon Islands, ... More >>

Toxic Waste Budget Initiative Welcome First Step

Thursday, 23 May 2002, 4:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

21 May 2002 – Auckland: Kiwis will finally have the right to know what toxic chemicals have been dumped in their backyards, because of a Budget initiative announced today. More >>

Greens GE Stance Supported By Leaked EU Report

Thursday, 23 May 2002, 4:25 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

The Green Party stance on legislation allowing the GE moratorium to expire automatically in October next year is a sensible position given international caution on GE organisms. More >>

IWC South Pacific Sanctuary Vote

Wednesday, 22 May 2002, 11:20 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Shimonoseki, Japan/Auckland: Wednesday 22 May 2002: While the South Pacific and South Atlantic whale sanctuaries were defeated at today’s IWC meeting, the only Caribbean country with a whaling quota voted with its own voice, creating a break in the bloc ... More >>

World’s largest whale still under threat

Monday, 20 May 2002, 4:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Shimonoseki, Japan/Auckland, Monday 20 MAY, 2002: In spite of nearly four decades of protection Antarctic blue whales show little sign of recovery, according to the latest science from the International Whaling Commission (IWC). More >>

Whales for Gold?

Monday, 20 May 2002, 4:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Shimonoseki, Japan/Auckland, Monday 20 May, 2002: Greenpeace members dressed up as Fisheries Agency of Japan senior official Masayuki Komatsu tempted developing nations with “sanpou gold” in exchange for their votes as the plenary session of the 54th ... More >>