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International Failure To Curb Illegal Fishing
Tuesday, 10 October 2000, 9:54 am | Greenpeace
Rome, 7th October 2000 --- Governments from over 40 countries participating in an international conference this week failed to adopt a plan to effectively stop the plundering of ocean resources by pirate fishing vessels - denounced Greenpeace. Instead, ... More >>
More patents on life set to go ahead - Greenpeace
Monday, 9 October 2000, 10:38 am | Greenpeace
More patents on life set to go ahead - Greenpeace demands EU Patent Directive to be scrapped More >>
The Eliminate Dioxin Drive
Wednesday, 4 October 2000, 4:44 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
CHRISTCHURCH: Greenpeace has today launched its Eliminate Dioxin Drive which will highlight the extent of dangerous dioxin pollution around New Zealand, and call on the government to eliminate dioxins. More >>
New Zealand government put on the ‘hotspot’
Sunday, 1 October 2000, 10:23 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace will put the New Zealand government on the ‘hotspot’ from 9am on Monday, October 2. More >>
28 Greenpeace Volunteers Acquitted In GM Trial
Thursday, 21 September 2000, 10:26 am | Greenpeace
London, 20th September, 2000 Twenty-eight Greenpeace volunteers were acquitted today of criminal damage at Norwich Crown Court, Eastern England. The volunteers had gone on trial on September 4th on charges relating to a Greenpeace action at Lyng, Norfolk, ... More >>
Better Public Process In GE Inquiry Needed
Wednesday, 20 September 2000, 4:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday 20 September 2000, Auckland, New Zealand Greenpeace yesterday sent a clear message to the Minister for the Environment, Marian Hobbs, calling on the Minister to considerably improve the public process for the Royal Commission of Inquiry on ... More >>
WTO Still In Need Of Environmental Reform
Wednesday, 20 September 2000, 9:53 am | Greenpeace
Geneva, 18 September 2000: Greenpeace considers today’s ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), that the French ban on asbestos imports does not violate its trade rules, to be a step in the right direction but warns that the WTO still has ... More >>
NZ Position Could Indirectly Help Nuclear Industry
Tuesday, 19 September 2000, 9:50 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
In the midst of global concern over climate change there is one group that is rubbing its hands together with glee - the nuclear power industry. Unlike coal and gas-fired power stations, nuclear plants don’t emit carbon dioxide, leading the nuclear industry ... More >>
US takes first step toward sanctions against Japan
Thursday, 14 September 2000, 1:24 pm | Greenpeace
WASHINGTON, September 13—The White House today officially began the process for imposing economic sanctions against Japan for its continued whaling program. Greenpeace commends President Clinton and Secretary of Commerce Norman Mineta for taking this first crucial ... More >>
Greens Stop GE Trees
Wednesday, 13 September 2000, 3:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 13 September 2000 Carter Holt Harvey today told Greenpeace in a letter that they will not plant genetically engineered trees out in the open environment after Greenpeace raised concerns with the company directly in June. Carter Holt Harvey ... More >>
Let the Games be Green : Rainbow Warrior Arrives
Friday, 1 September 2000, 10:48 am | Greenpeace
In a festive welcome, Greenpeace’s best known ship, the SV Rainbow Warrior II, sails into Sydney Harbour at lunchtime today, with a message to carry the Green Games torch beyond Sydney 2000. More >>
Cyber-action against Japanese scientific whaling
Wednesday, 30 August 2000, 5:53 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Today 19 Greenpeace offices around the world are sending a clear message to Japan condemning its expanded 'scientific' whale hunt in the North Pacific. In New Zealand, Greenpeace has designed a ‘cyberaction’, for the general public to take action, by ... More >>
Greenpeace Calls For A Ban On TBT
Wednesday, 30 August 2000, 1:14 pm | Greenpeace
Hamburg, 29th August 2000: Greenpeace today called for an immediate ban on the use of TBT (tributyl tin) and other organotins in all consumer products after analyses revealed that eight inflatable beach bathing items made of soft PVC contain the toxic ... More >>
Greenpeace Calls For Recovery Of Kursk
Thursday, 24 August 2000, 3:41 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Calls For Recovery Of Kursk Nuclear Submarine And A Halt To The Use Of Nuclear Powered Vessels At Sea More >>
Toxic Pollution Dump In Central Auckland
Tuesday, 22 August 2000, 2:22 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
22 August 2000 – Auckland: Leaking drums which apparently contained highly toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were discovered at an inner city Auckland site over the weekend. More >>
Scoop Images: Uncle Sam Wants You To Turn Green!
Tuesday, 15 August 2000, 3:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Images from a protest held today in Auckland by GreenPeace against the US Food And Drug Administration. See also... Uncle Franken-Sam Wants YOU To Eat His GE Food for the press release which accompanied this pictures. More >>
Uncle Franken-Sam Wants YOU To Eat His GE Food
Tuesday, 15 August 2000, 2:13 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today sent a clear message to Carol Mosley-Braun, the American Ambassador to New Zealand and FDA (Food and Drug Administration) officials, that Kiwis do not want to eat genetically engineered food. The message was delivered by Greenpeace ... More >>
State Troopers And BP Security Storm Barge
Wednesday, 9 August 2000, 7:42 pm | Greenpeace
Auckland, August 9, 2000 -- Five Greenpeace activists occupying a barge carrying BP drilling supplies and equipment were arrested this afternoon (late yesterday afternoon local time Alaska, 8 August) by Alaska State Troopers. More >>
Greenpeace Occupation Of BP Centre Enters Day 2
Wednesday, 9 August 2000, 4:00 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists have began their second day of occupation of a barge working for BP in the Arctic Ocean. More >>
Scoop Images: Battle Northstar Rejoined
Tuesday, 8 August 2000, 1:44 pm | Greenpeace
7/8/00 Beaufort Sea (Alaska). 6 Greenpeace activists today occupied today BP's Northstar control centre on board a sea barge, bound for the Arctic oil installation. If constructed oil from Northstar will fuel global climate change which is already causing Arctic ... More >>
