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Two Arrested During Occupation Of Tegel Factory
Friday, 19 January 2001, 12:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
19 January 2001, Christchurch –Two activists from the Rainbow Warrior were arrested this morning after Greenpeace occupied a Tegel factory in Christchurch to protest the use of GE soya meal in animal feed. More >>
Arrests During Night Of Armed Plutonium Transports
Thursday, 18 January 2001, 8:55 am | Greenpeace
January 17th 2001, Cherbourg/Valognes, France: Five Greenpeace France activists were arrested by French Interior Ministry police, CRS, this morning, while protesting at the gates and railway line of the Cogema nuclear transport depot at Valognes. ... More >>
BNFL And COGEMA Abuse French Justice System
Thursday, 18 January 2001, 8:52 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, January 16th 2001 - Greenpeace International today condemned British Nuclear Fuels’ (BNFL) and Cogema’s heavy-handed legal manoeuvres to ban peaceful protests against a planned Japanese plutonium/MOX shipment, scheduled for this week. ... More >>
Greenpeace Calls For Biosafety Ratification
Tuesday, 16 January 2001, 3:04 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
15 January 2001, Wellington – During an organic breakfast on the Rainbow Warrior this morning, Greenpeace asked political party representatives to encourage the speedy ratification of the Biosafety Protocol. More >>
Deadly Plutonium Shipment Set To Leave Europe
Tuesday, 16 January 2001, 9:52 am | Greenpeace
London, Jan 15th 2001. Greenpeace today warned coastal nations around the world to be on high alert for a deadly weapons-usable plutonium/MOX fuel shipment from Europe to Japan. The armed nuclear transport freighters the Pacific Pintail and Pacific ... More >>
Greenpeace Images: Colonel Franken-Sanders At KFC
Monday, 15 January 2001, 5:29 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The following are images from a protest held today in Central Wellington by Greenpeace activists highlighting the use of GE soy in chicken feed. The protest was held in Manners Mall outside a KFC outlet. For more information see... Colonel Franken-Sanders ... More >>
Search Party For “Secret” Nuclear Shipment
Monday, 15 January 2001, 10:50 am | Greenpeace
9th January 2001: Buenos Aires, Argentina - Greenpeace will send a search party into one of the most inhospitable oceans in the world to track down the largest high level nuclear waste shipment to have ever sailed. The location of the British-flagged freighter ... More >>
Colonel Franken-Sanders and Chickens call on KFC
Monday, 15 January 2001, 12:20 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington Monday 15 January 2001 – Today Greenpeace chickens and Colonel Franken-Sanders revealed to midday shoppers in central Wellington that Kentucky Fried Chicken (NZ) Limited uses chickens fed on genetically engineered animal feed. More >>
Tegel Chicken Feed – GE Contaminated
Thursday, 21 December 2000, 10:07 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, December 21 2000 – Greenpeace today condemned Tegel for using genetically engineered soya meal in animal feed. Greenpeace activists at Tegel’s feedmill in Takinini, South Auckland stopped the production and distribution of the animal feed ... More >>
Police Arrest Chickens at Tegel’s
Thursday, 21 December 2000, 10:06 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, December 21 2000 – Police removed and arrested four Greenpeace activists who stopped the production and distribution of genetic engineered animal feed by Tegel Foods Limited. More >>
Chernobyl Reactor Replacement Opposition Urged
Thursday, 14 December 2000, 10:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Calls On European Commission Not To Fund New Hazardous Nuclear Reactors To Replace Chernobyl More >>
Beginning Of The End Of Toxic Pollution
Monday, 11 December 2000, 2:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
BEGINNING OF THE END OF TOXIC POLLUTION: WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS CHEMICALS TO BE BANNED More >>
Key powers holding treaty hostage over WTO agenda?
Monday, 11 December 2000, 2:23 pm | Greenpeace
Johannesburg, 8th December 2000: As countries neared their deadline to agree on an international treaty to ban persistent organic pollutants (POPs), some of the world’s most dangerous chemicals, Greenpeace warned that a few key world powers, such as ... More >>
NZ Undermines Precaution In Toxics Treaty
Friday, 8 December 2000, 9:18 pm | Greenpeace
Auckland/ Johannesburg – 8 December 2000: New Zealand today joined forces with, Australia, Japan, USA and Canada in an attempt to shred precautionary and preventative action on protecting human health and the environment from toxic chemicals. More >>
EBRD Ignores Safety Concerns With Chernobyl
Friday, 8 December 2000, 11:30 am | Greenpeace
LONDON, Dec 7, 2000 – Greenpeace today condemned as irresponsible today's decision by the the executive directors of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to finance the two Chernobyl replacement reactors in the Ukraine. More >>
Governments To Finalise Ban On Dangerous Chemicals
Tuesday, 5 December 2000, 5:34 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
5 December 2000 - Auckland/Johannesburg: Greenpeace volunteers highlighted the human cost of polluting industries to over 100 governments as they arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa today for the final negotiations on an international treaty to ban some ... More >>
Deadlock at The Hague: a salutary crisis?
Monday, 4 December 2000, 5:56 pm | Greenpeace
Saturday, 25 November 2000 will doubtless go down in history as a grim day for climate protection. But thanks to the European commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the worst was prevented. The European Union was able – for once – to resist American ... More >>
Which Way Will Govt Fall On Deadly Dioxins?
Monday, 4 December 2000, 5:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
3 December 2000 – Auckland: Cabinet will decide tomorrow (Monday 4 December) whether New Zealand should stay with the obstructive handful of countries in the Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (toxics treaty) negotiations or to protect our health ... More >>
Greenpeace Blocks Transports Of Toxic Chemicals
Thursday, 30 November 2000, 11:11 am | Greenpeace
LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA, US - November 28, 2000: Just one week before an international conference commences in South Africa to finalise a global ban on some of the world’s most dangerous toxic chemicals, Greenpeace activists took action today against one ... More >>
Greenpeace Condemns Russian Referendum Rejection
Thursday, 30 November 2000, 11:09 am | Greenpeace
Moscow 29 November 2000 Greenpeace today condemned as anti- democratic the rejection by the Regional and Central Election Committees of 600,000 signatures from a total of 2.5 million calling for a national referendum on proposed changes to Russian Environmental ... More >>
