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Greenpeace Launches Cyberactivist Centre
Monday, 13 November 2000, 11:12 am | Greenpeace
The number of Greenpeace cyberactivists has been growing rapidly over the last year: we now have about 50,000 people in more than 100 countries who have agreed to help out our campaigns over the Internet through letter writing, research, and downloading ... More >>
Expert To Brief Government On Toxics Treaty
Monday, 13 November 2000, 9:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 12 November 2000: Greenpeace has brought an international expert to New Zealand to brief the government on why it must agree to eliminate dioxins under an international toxics treaty. More >>
Mile Long Toxic Slick Spreads From Italian Tanker
Tuesday, 7 November 2000, 10:01 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France. November 5: Six days after the chemical tanker, Ievoli Sun, sank in 60 metres of water off the west coast of France, the toxic styrene continues to leak, Greenpeace warned today. More >>
North Sea Countries Could Fossil Fuel With Wind
Tuesday, 7 November 2000, 9:54 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, November 6th, 2000.: A report released today reveals that five North Sea countries (Germany, UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark) have an offshore wind resource that is three times their total electricity consumption. This report sends a clear ... More >>
For Survey Into Health And Dioxins In New Plymouth
Friday, 3 November 2000, 3:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
3 November 2000: Auckland: Greenpeace supports the New Plymouth residents call for an investigation into health effects which may be linked to dioxin contamination in the area, at a public meeting in New Plymouth on Tuesday night. More >>
Greenpeace welcomes delay of GE pine field trials
Tuesday, 31 October 2000, 3:53 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, October 31 Earlier today the Forest Research Institute (FRI) announced that they will delay planned field trials of genetically engineered pine trees until the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification has completed its investigation. More >>
ERMA hearing on controversial GE pine trees
Tuesday, 31 October 2000, 3:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, October 31 Tomorrow, Wednesday November 1, the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) will open the public hearing on the field trials of genetically engineered trees in Rotorua. The applications were filed by the Forest Research Institute ... More >>
Greenpeace And Coastal Communities Confront Shrimp
Wednesday, 25 October 2000, 9:19 am | Greenpeace
Puerto Bolivar, Ecuador—23 October 2000. Greenpeace activists and crew of the Arctic Sunrise joined hundreds of people from Ecuadorian coastal communities in breaking a dike that surrounds an illegal shrimp farm in the El Oro Province of Ecuador and ... More >>
Russians Say No To Radioactive Waste Imports
Wednesday, 25 October 2000, 9:18 am | Greenpeace
2.5 MILLION RUSSIANS SAY NO TO RADIOACTIVE WASTE IMPORTS AND CALL FOR NATIONAL REFERENDUM More >>
World Bank Funding Pollution In India
Tuesday, 24 October 2000, 11:03 am | Greenpeace
The Indian state of Gujarat, birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, has launched a campaign to attract more than $12 billion dollars in investment for its massively polluting chemical industry. More >>
EU GM Food Regulation Challenged
Tuesday, 24 October 2000, 10:44 am | Greenpeace
Brussels, 19 October, 2000 – The European Union regulation on genetically engineered (GE) food and food ingredients was challenged today as the majority of member states supported Italy’s ban on GE maize products (1) which had been fast-track approved ... More >>
Human Cost Of World Bank Investment Exposed
Friday, 20 October 2000, 10:30 am | Greenpeace
Human Cost Of World Bank Investment Exposed: Greenpeace Calls For Environmental Restoration And Clean Production More >>
Germany Re-Negotiate EU Biotech Patent Directive
Thursday, 19 October 2000, 10:15 am | Greenpeace
Brussels/Hamburg, 18th October, 2000 – The German Government today issued a statement saying that the controversial EU Biotech Patent Directive (98/44/EC) is not adequate to deal with the rapid developments in the field of biotechnology and therefore needs ... More >>
Rainforest Alert Update
Tuesday, 17 October 2000, 3:19 pm | Greenpeace
More than 3000 people have sent letters to the Premier of British Columbia to object to logging in the ancient temperate rainforest. And about 2000 people have sent letters to the CEO of International Forest Products. This is a great response in less than ... More >>
Aventis unable to assure Royal Commission
Tuesday, 17 October 2000, 8:10 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 16 October 2000 – Today, the opening day of the Formal hearings for the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Genetic Modification, panelists heard that once Genetically engineered crops were introduced there was no assurance of genetic purity ... More >>
Greenpeace: Nuclear Power Debate Relaunched
Monday, 16 October 2000, 9:56 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Condemns The European Commission's Attempts To "Re-Launch The Debate On Nuclear Power". More >>
Greenpeace puts Dioxin Elimination on the map!
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 1:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
WELLINGTON, OCTOBER 12: Greenpeace’s call for the government to aim to eliminate dioxins is enhanced by a powerful new data-base driven website. More >>
Link: New Zealand Parliament – a toxic hotspot?
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 1:33 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
WELLINGTON, OCTOBER 12. Greenpeace has today cordoned off part of Parliament Buildings to highlight the fact that unless the New Zealand government changes its current position it could become the worst toxic hotspot in the country. More >>
“Life Science” Brand Fails To Win Over Public
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 9:48 am | Greenpeace
London/Basel, 11 October 2000 – Novartis and Astra Zeneca will today effectively accept that their involvement in genetically engineered (GE) agricultural products has damaged their shareholder values by merging and floating off their agribusiness ... More >>
Radioactive Soil Delivered To Duma
Tuesday, 10 October 2000, 9:57 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace And Russian Villagers Deliver Radioactive Soil To Duma In Call For An End To Government Plans To Import Thousands Of Tons Of Radioactive Waste More >>
