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Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 139]
Four Weeks To Commercial Whaling?
Tuesday, 23 April 2002, 12:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
In four weeks, the fate of the world’s whales will be decided at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) with the pro-whaling group likely to get a majority vote. More >>
Nuclear Company Lease Black Magic: Insult To NZ
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 12:13 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
17 April, 2002, Auckland: The French nuclear industry group, Areva is leasing New Zealand's 1995 America's Cup boat, "Black Magic" as a promotion tool in its campaign to promote its dirty nuclear business. More >>
Nuclear Company Lease Black Magic: Insult To NZ
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 12:12 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
17 April, 2002, Auckland: The French nuclear industry group, Areva is leasing New Zealand's 1995 America's Cup boat, "Black Magic" as a promotion tool in its campaign to promote its dirty nuclear business. More >>
Bogus Japanese Whaling Research Expedition Returns
Thursday, 4 April 2002, 4:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Defying a worldwide moratorium on whale hunting, Japan's whaling fleet is returning this week from the Antarctic carrying two thousand tons of whale meat for commercial sale caught in a whale sanctuary 6000 miles from Japan. For the past 15 years, the ... More >>
Support For Whaling Continues To Decline In Japan
Tuesday, 2 April 2002, 2:21 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, April 2, 2002: An independent poll released on Saturday by the Japanese national newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun shows Japanese attitudes toward whales to be significantly different than that reflected in the Government commissioned poll released ... More >>
Nuclear Transport Ship Fire Raises Safety Concerns
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 10:18 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
One of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) nuclear transport ships, the Atlantic Osprey (1) caught fire during its voyage from dry dock in Manchester to the Irish Sea, it was revealed today. More >>
Another Kick In The Teeth For Arms Control
Monday, 18 March 2002, 9:55 am | Greenpeace
AMSTERDAM, March 15th, 2002 - Greenpeace today called the eighth scheduled Star Wars test “another kick in the teeth for arms control” at the end of a week that started with the leak of the Bush administration’s highly controversial new nuclear weapons ... More >>
Japanese whalers to target endangered sei whales
Friday, 1 March 2002, 10:54 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: The Government of Japan's abuse of science as a cover for its whaling programs has taken a new turn with the announcement that they intend to begin catching an endangered species. More >>
Anti-Whaling Countries Held To Ransom
Tuesday, 26 February 2002, 1:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday February 26th, 2002 Auckland, New Zealand Away from public notice and behind closed doors delegates of the International Whaling Commission are hammering out a final plan to resume commercial whaling. Outside Auckland’s Ascot Metropolis hotel ... More >>
Anti-Whaling Countries Held To Ransom
Tuesday, 26 February 2002, 1:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Away from public notice and behind closed doors delegates of the International Whaling Commission are hammering out a final plan to resume commercial whaling. Outside Auckland’s Ascot Metropolis hotel where the delegates are staying Greenpeace is keeping vigil. ... More >>
Nuclear Company Areva Not Wanted In America's Cup
Friday, 22 February 2002, 9:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, February 20, 2002: Major French sponsor of the French entry in the America’s Cup feels the pressure as New Zealanders demand Areva pull out of the America’s Cup. More >>
Plutonium sponsorship for the America's Cup ??
Thursday, 7 February 2002, 2:47 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The French nuclear company Areva is sponsoring the French yacht Defi in the next America's Cup to the tune of 15 million Euros. More >>
Global whale warning -vote buying is as lethal as
Wednesday, 23 January 2002, 4:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace activists in 14 countries around the world are today issuing an Urgent Whale Warning. Greenpeace oceans campaigner, Sarah Duthie says a return to full-scale commercial whaling is imminent if Japanese government “vote buying” is allowed to ... More >>
Greenpeace to show Southern Ocean whaling footage
Tuesday, 22 January 2002, 11:02 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace invites you to join us for a public viewing of Greenpeace footage taken by our crew onboard the MV Arctic Sunrise from the Southern Ocean. This footage is a compilation of what Greenpeace activists have witnessed while dogging the Japanese ... More >>
Star Wars Activists Still Defiant on Missile Base
Monday, 21 January 2002, 2:06 pm | Greenpeace
18 January 2002, Los Angeles, California - Greenpeace activists who face jail over a peaceful protest against the Star Wars missile defence programme in the United States, have peacefully and lawfully returned to the military base to re-state their ... More >>
Greenpeace Star Wars Protestors Sentenced
Monday, 21 January 2002, 2:03 pm | Greenpeace
Los Angeles, California - Nine Greenpeace activists today walked free from court after pleading guilty to conspiring to trespass on a military base, during a peaceful protest against the Star Wars missile defence programme last July. More >>
Buying the world's whales
Wednesday, 16 January 2002, 4:37 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Japanese Government has already spent more than NZ $755m on buying a return to full scale commercial whaling, said Greenpeace today after its expedition ship MV Arctic Sunrise docked in Melbourne. More >>
Companies Dump Toxic Ships on Turkish Beach
Tuesday, 15 January 2002, 10:15 am | Greenpeace
Western European Companies Dump Toxic Ships on Turkish Beach - Greenpeace Holds EU partly responsible for Poisoning More >>
Attorney's office drops Greenpeace felony charges
Thursday, 10 January 2002, 2:25 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Los Angeles/Auckland: The US Attorney's Office has agreed to drop the two felony charges against the 15 Greenpeace activists including New Zealand resident Henk Haazen and two freelance journalists who were due to stand trial in Los Angeles today, following ... More >>
Greenpeace Southern Ocean Expedition
Monday, 7 January 2002, 5:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Greenpeace vessel MV Arctic Sunrise has been shadowing the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. The crew have been taking every opportunity to engage the whalers and prevent them from catching whales. The whalers have responded by firing ... More >>
