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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 >>
Greenpeace Action Alert – Protestors In Japan
Tuesday, 16 May 2000, 9:15 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Last Tuesday, four Greenpeace volunteers were put in jail after taking action to end toxic pollution from the world's largest incinerator in Tokyo. In addition on Thursday, the police raided the Greenpeace office in Tokyo and our flagship "The ... More >>
Scoop Images: Tokyo, Dioxin Capital Of The World
Friday, 12 May 2000, 8:11 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Images of the banner that the four Greenpeace activists hung in Japan. The activists were arrested and are still in custody. Yesterday Japanese police raided the Rainbow Warrior searching for evidence – see... http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0005/S00072.htm ... More >>
Japanese Police raid Rainbow Warrior
Friday, 12 May 2000, 9:31 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland/Tokyo, 11 May 2000 – The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was raided today at 08h10 local time by 50 Japanese Police officers. The Japanese authorities were looking for evidence against the four Greenpeace activists arrested on Tuesday ... More >>
Greenpeace’s opposition to logging not changed
Friday, 12 May 2000, 12:23 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Mayor O’Dea’s implication that Greenpeace supports logging on the West Coast is inaccurate, claimed Greenpeace today. Globally Greenpeace is campaigning to halt illegal logging in the Amazon as part of a long-standing international forestry campaign. ... More >>
Scoop Images: Greenpeace Tests Radioactive Waste
Friday, 28 April 2000, 5:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The following three images show the Greenpeace operation to test waste from Cogema's nuclear reprocessing plant discharge at Raz Blanchard. Greenpeace discovered alarmingly high levels of radioactivity during its tests and has called for an end to discharges ... More >>
Greenpeace calls for end to radioactive discharges
Friday, 28 April 2000, 4:33 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, April 28, 2000 - Greenpeace has called on the French government to immediately halt radioactive discharges from the giant La Hague nuclear reprocessing complex. The call came after a scientific sampling operation revealed that dangerous radioactive ... More >>
Greenpeace Still Waiting On Nestle
Thursday, 20 April 2000, 1:22 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
April 20, 2000 – Auckland: Greenpeace is still waiting on Nestle to make a commitment to remove genetically engineered (GE) ingredients from their products, after Nestle refused to join Greenpeace at an organic breakfast outside Nestle’s Headquarters ... More >>
Voluntary Moratorium on GE - a poor start
Tuesday, 18 April 2000, 9:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
A voluntary moratorium on genetically engineered field trials is a poor start for the Royal Commission, and calls into question the integrity of the process, Greenpeace stated today. Environment Minister Marian Hobbs today gave the long awaited announcement ... More >>
