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Victory For Consumers Of KFC
Thursday, 1 March 2001, 2:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday 1 March 2001 Auckland - Greenpeace welcomes Restaurant Brands New Zealand Limited (1) announcement in its 2000 Annual Report that it will be working with its suppliers to eliminate any remaining genetically engineered material from all its ... More >>
Greenpeace Protests Against Pirate Fishing
Friday, 23 February 2001, 2:13 pm | Greenpeace
ROME, 22 February 2001 --- As governments begin final negotiations on an international plan to stop pirate fishing, Greenpeace activists protested at the Trevi Fountain to highlight the destruction caused by these renegade fishing fleets. More >>
Hard Action Needed To Stop Climate Catastrophe
Tuesday, 20 February 2001, 7:37 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
19 February 2001: Auckland: Greenpeace today warned that to avoid a climate change catastrophe hard action is urgently needed. More >>
Shell Ordered To Clean Up Toxic Waste In Brazil
Tuesday, 20 February 2001, 10:57 am | Greenpeace
Sao Paulo/Amsterdam, February 16 2001: Greenpeace today called on Royal Dutch Shell to ensure that its chemical operation in Brazil takes full responsibility for decontaminating an area near Sao Paulo, Brazil, that it contaminated with toxic pesticides for a ... More >>
Nuclear-Free Tasman Flotilla Departs
Monday, 19 February 2001, 11:08 am | Greenpeace
A flotilla of seven yachts from Australia and New Zealand left port today to sail to the north-west Tasman Sea where they will protest the use of the Tasman and the Pacific Ocean as a nuclear highway for plutonium ships. More >>
Japanese MOX Programme In Disarray
Friday, 16 February 2001, 4:41 pm | Greenpeace
LONDON, Feb 15, 2001 - The Japanese plutonium (MOX) fuel programme is in disarray today after a key Prefecture announced a major delay in the loading of the controversial nuclear fuel and demanded "total review" of the country's proposed programme, Greenpeace ... More >>
Unsafe Toxic Ship Detained In Europe
Friday, 16 February 2001, 3:30 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam 15th February 2001: Greenpeace today called on the shipping industry to dispose of ships that reach the end of their useful life in an environmentally sound manner and to stop using Asia as a dumping ground after a toxic ship, destined to ... More >>
Greenpeace Tells Commission Why GE Must Be Banned
Friday, 16 February 2001, 10:41 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 16 February 2001 – Greenpeace has welcomed the opportunity to present compelling evidence on why genetically engineered organisms should not be released into the environment. More >>
A Step Forward That Falls Short
Thursday, 15 February 2001, 3:05 pm | Greenpeace
Brussels/Strasbourg - 13 February 2001: The Commission's White Paper on chemicals presented today in Strasbourg is a step forward for the EU, but falls short of delivering its intention to make chemical pollution “the burden of the past”, according to Greenpeace. More >>
Greenpeace Sails To Heart Of Star Wars Testing
Wednesday, 14 February 2001, 8:47 am | Greenpeace
London, February 13, 2001 - The international anti-nuclear and environmental organisation Greenpeace announced today that the SV Rainbow Warrior, has set sail from Auckland, New Zealand for the Pacific Star Wars test site to protest at the next scheduled ... More >>
Greenpeace Locates Deadly Plutonium Ships
Monday, 12 February 2001, 9:15 am | Greenpeace
Cape Town - Greenpeace today located a cargo of deadly plutonium/Mox fuel, on board the Pacific Pintail, 315 nautical miles off the coast of South Africa. Containing some 230kg of plutonium and four tonnes of uranium, an accident off the African coastline ... More >>
GE 'Golden Rice' is Fools Gold
Friday, 9 February 2001, 1:21 pm | Greenpeace
Manila/Amsterdam, 9th February, 2001 –Genetically engineered “Golden Rice” containing provitamin A will not solve the problem of malnutrition in developing countries according to Greenpeace. The Genetic Engineering (GE) industry claims vitamin A rice could ... More >>
Gambling With The Future Of Whales - Greenpeace
Wednesday, 7 February 2001, 9:06 am | Greenpeace
Monaco, 6th February 2001--- A special intersessional meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opens today in Monaco to "make further progress" on a scheme that, if agreed, will take the world significantly closer to the resumption ... More >>
Plutonium shipment approaches South Africa
Monday, 5 February 2001, 12:54 am | Greenpeace
Cape Town, 2 February, 2001 - A deadly cargo of plutonium/MOX fuel bound for Japan from Europe will be off the South African coastline within days, threatening the environment, lives and livelihoods of millions of people the international environmental ... More >>
Greenpeace Welcomes GE Free Heinz-Wattie’s
Friday, 2 February 2001, 3:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 2 February 2001 – Greenpeace today welcomed a statement from Heinz-Wattie’s Australasia confirming that the “Heinz global policy is for its product range to be GM Free”. More >>
A GE Free Flag Flies At The Heart Of New Zealand
Wednesday, 31 January 2001, 9:50 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Nelson Wednesday 31st January - Greenpeace today scaled a monument at the geographical centre of New Zealand and flew a GE free flag from its needle. On the same day GE free Nelson presented a petition and map to the Mayor of Nelson calling on him to ... More >>
Greenpeace Demands EU Labelling of GE Animal Feed
Tuesday, 30 January 2001, 11:14 am | Greenpeace
Brussels, 29th January, 2001 - Agricultural Ministers meet in Brussels today few hours after Danish riot police arrested 27 Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to the bulk carrier Explorer, which had come from Argentina carrying 20.000 tonnes ... More >>
Tegel Foods NZ Ltd has the same option
Tuesday, 30 January 2001, 12:44 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Top UK food retailers to ban meat and dairy products from animals fed on genetically engineered (GE) crops More >>
Greenpeace Images: Col. Franken Saunders In Nelson
Monday, 29 January 2001, 6:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace images from an anti-GE protest held outside KFC Nelson today. More >>
Retailers to ban food from animals fed GE crops
Monday, 29 January 2001, 1:15 am | Greenpeace
Top UK food retailers to ban meat and dairy products from animals fed on genetically engineered (GE) crops More >>
