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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 >>
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 >>
