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Greenpeace Activists Occupy BP's Northstar Centre
Tuesday, 8 August 2000, 11:31 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Activists Occupy BP's Northstar Control Centre 8 August 2000, Auckland: Six Greenpeace activists today occupied the control centre of BP's controversial Northstar development as it was being transported by barge to the construction site ... More >>
Novartis Bows to Consumer Pressure
Friday, 4 August 2000, 1:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Novartis, one of the world’s leading producers of genetically engineered seeds, has informed Greenpeace that it will no longer use genetically engineered ingredients (GE) in its food products worldwide. Novartis is the first multinational company ... More >>
Marian, Don’t Make Moratorium A Mockery
Thursday, 20 July 2000, 5:33 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today called on Environment Minister Marian Hobbs to put a stop to the field trial application for genetically engineered trees, currently being considered by ERMA (Environmental Risk Management Authority). This request was stated in a letter ... More >>
One more year could be too late for toothfish
Tuesday, 18 July 2000, 6:43 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The New Zealand Government’s announcement today - that they may advocate within a year for a global moratorium on fishing for toothfish - could be too late for toothfish in the Southern Ocean, said Greenpeace. More >>
Scoop Images: The Missile That Wasn't Shot Down
Monday, 10 July 2000, 11:07 am | Greenpeace
A Greenpeace photographer caught these shots of a Minuteman II missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base - part of the US government's failed Star Wars test on 7 July. More >>
Arrestees at Vandenberg call for end to Star Wars
Monday, 10 July 2000, 11:01 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE—July 8, 2000 – Altogether nine Greenpeace activists were arrested yesterday for challenging the Pentagon’s Star Wars missile program. On the Marshall Islands two activists were arrested following their occupation of the Star ... More >>
Greenpeace Vessel Sailing Towards Star Wars Test
Monday, 10 July 2000, 9:16 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Escalating its protest against the Pentagon’s “Star Wars” missile program, the international anti-nuclear organisation Greenpeace is sending its vessel MV Arctic Sunrise into waters off the launch site at Vandenberg Air Force base where a test launch is scheduled ... More >>
Dominica Held Ransom By Japan Over Whale Sanctuary
Thursday, 6 July 2000, 7:02 pm | Greenpeace
Adelaide, Thursday 6 July 2000: Greenpeace confirmed today that the Dominican government was “held ransom” by Japan over its vote on the failed South Pacific Whale Sanctuary proposal at International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting this week in Adelaide, ... More >>
Desperate Japanese politics delays the inevitable
Wednesday, 5 July 2000, 11:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
ADELAIDE/ AUCKLAND, 4 JULY 2000: The failure of a proposal from the New Zealand and Australian Governments for a South Pacific Whale Sanctuary was a short-term victory for desperate Japanese politics but did not spell the end for the proposal, Greenpeace ... More >>
Let's get on with business, says Greenpeace
Monday, 3 July 2000, 6:28 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
ADELAIDE/ AUCKLAND, July 3, 2000: The Japanese Government's latest bid to exclude Greenpeace from the 52nd meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has been overwhelming quashed at today's IWC meeting in Adelaide. Only Norway, Japan ... More >>
104,223 Kiwis say Yes to Global Whale Sanctuary
Wednesday, 28 June 2000, 9:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, 26th June 2000: Greenpeace will today present the Hon. Sandra Lee, Minister of Conservation a petition containing 104,223 signatures calling for the establishment of a Global Whale Sanctuary. More >>
New Zealand Can Play Decisive International Role
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 7:36 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland – 20 June 2000: Greenpeace today defended the claims of a wide coalition of international environmental groups that the Kyoto Protocol was headed for the rocks unless loopholes were closed.(1) More >>
Investors ‘Misled’ by Shale Oil Developers
Wednesday, 7 June 2000, 11:51 am | Greenpeace
Auckland, 7 June 2000: Greenpeace has lodged a formal complaint with the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) alleging investors have been misled about the profitability of the Stuart Oil Shale Project in Queensland. The complaint argues that the companies ... More >>
Advanta moves seed production to NZ for purity
Friday, 2 June 2000, 9:36 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Advanta, the company at the centre of the current storm over GE crop contamination in Europe, has moved some of their seed production facilities to New Zealand, so as to maintain GE purity, Greenpeace revealed today. More >>
Greenpeace 's Global Campaign Challenging Coke
Thursday, 1 June 2000, 3:08 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace unveils global campaign challenging Olympic polluter Coca-Cola Greenpeace today unveiled a global internet campaign challenging Olympic sponsor Coca-Cola for undermining the Environmental Guidelines of the Sydney 2000 Games and for its worldwide ... More >>
Legal action to stop the spread of genetic rape
Friday, 26 May 2000, 7:44 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, May 25, 2000 --- Greenpeace today took legal action against the Dutch seed company Advanta and the government of Germany to enforce the immediate destruction of oilseed rape fields contaminated with genetically engineered (GE) rape seed varieties ... More >>
Time to build a renewable energy revolution
Wednesday, 24 May 2000, 5:35 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Zealand has the potential to meet its energy needs from wind power, but is so far failing to meet this opportunity, Greenpeace stated today at the New Zealand Wind Energy Association conference in Wellington. More >>
New Zealand Plans To Sign Biosafety Protocol Today
Wednesday, 24 May 2000, 2:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
As at least the first fifty countries are expected to sign a Protocol on Biosafety (1) in Nairobi today, including the New Zealand delegation, Greenpeace International is calling for a trade ban on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), at least until ... More >>
Four Greenpeace Activists Imprisoned in Japan
Friday, 19 May 2000, 5:04 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, May 19th, 2000 – The four Greenpeace activists – detained and imprisoned in Tokyo since Tuesday May 9th– will be brought to the Tokyo District Court on Friday, May 19th, to hear whether charges will be brought against them. They were arrested ... More >>
Protests Around the World to Free Four Activists
Tuesday, 16 May 2000, 9:43 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 16 May, 2000 Greenpeace protests today spread around the globe, from Asia to Europe, and from the Middle East to the Americas, demanding the immediate release of the four activists detained in Japan for the seventh day without any formal charges ... More >>
