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Greenpeace's BP Amoco Resolution On Climate Change
Friday, 14 April 2000, 4:05 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
REQUISITION by shareholders for giving notice of intended resolutions and for circulation of statement on business to be dealt with at the BP Amoco plc 2000 AGM More >>
GreenPeace BP Amoco AGM Speech - Matthew Spencer
Friday, 14 April 2000, 10:10 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
1. Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Matthew Spencer. I am a shareholder, but I want to build on the theme of choice from another perspective. Simon has explained what choices Resolution 12 presents from the perspective of a professional investor. ... More >>
13% Of BP Amoco Vote Support Greenpeace Resolution
Friday, 14 April 2000, 9:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
April 14, 2000. Auckland: The highest vote for an environmental resolution anywhere in the world was achieved when BP Amoco shareholders voted on a resolution initiated by Greenpeace, at the BP Amoco Annual General Meeting in London yesterday (overnight ... More >>
Greenpeace Takes Northstar Battle To BP Boardroom
Thursday, 13 April 2000, 7:13 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
GREENPEACE TAKES ITS OPPOSITION TO NORTHSTAR TO THE BP AMOCO BOARDROOM AUCKLAND April 13, 2000 – A coalition of environmentalists and investors from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, have combined to challenge BP Amoco's lack ... More >>
Greenpeace Activists Continue Arctic Confrontation
Wednesday, 12 April 2000, 12:40 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, April 12, 2000 – Another five Greenpeace activists have been arrested in the Arctic, as Greenpeace continues to confront the construction of BP’s controversial Northstar offshore oil project. (1) More >>
New Zealander Arrested In Icy Action
Tuesday, 11 April 2000, 3:04 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
NEW ZEALANDER ARRESTED IN ICY ACTION April 11, 2000. Auckland—New Zealander, Tanya Popp of Coromandel, has been arrested while attempting to protect the sensitive and fragile Arctic environment from climate change. More >>
Overturn Trade Ban On Whaling - GPeace
Monday, 10 April 2000, 10:44 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 9th April 2000: As the Japanese whaling fleet offloaded its cargo of 439 minke whales hunted illegally in the protected Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Greenpeace called on Japan and Norway to withdraw their proposals to resume an international ... More >>
Coca-Cola and McDonald's claims a cop out
Friday, 7 April 2000, 11:59 am | Greenpeace
Sydney. Thursday April 6, 2000: Greenpeace calls on Olympic sponsors McDonald's and Coca-Cola to install only HFC-free Greenfreeze refrigeration at the Sydney 2000 Olympics site in compliance with the Environmental Guidelines. More >>
GE Commission: The First Real Environmental Test
Friday, 7 April 2000, 10:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The status of genetically engineered (GE) field trials whilst the Royal Commission of Inquiry on GE takes place will be the first real test of the new Government’s commitment to environmental protection, warned Greenpeace today [1]. An announcement ... More >>
Olympic sponsors dirtying the Green Games
Friday, 7 April 2000, 12:18 am | Greenpeace
SYDNEY. 6 APRIL, 2000: Greenpeace has revealed that two of the major sponsors of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola, are undermining the Environmental Guidelines for the world’s first Green Games. More >>
Greenpeace Reveals Pirate Landing Of Toothfish
Thursday, 6 April 2000, 10:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 6th April 2000 – Greenpeace exposed a well-known illegal fishing vessel, the Belize-flagged Rita, landing its catch of 90 tonnes of toothfish in Port Louis, Mauritius late last night (NZ time). Greenpeace has called on the Mauritian authorities ... More >>
Europe On Climate Change Leaves NZ Wanting
Thursday, 6 April 2000, 9:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
April 5, 2000 – Auckland. Greenpeace today congratulated Jeanette Fitzsimons, MP, on gaining government support for her Energy Efficiency & Conservation Bill. However, Greenpeace warned that energy efficiency is just the first small step to ... More >>
Nestle NZ defer to Australia In Defence Of GE Food
Friday, 31 March 2000, 4:01 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
In response to Greenpeace’s invitation to Nestle New Zealand – to make a commitment to remove genetically engineered ingredients from their food products - Nestle has refused to offer to New Zealand consumers what Nestle consumers currently enjoy in ... More >>
Three Greenpeace Activists Arrested
Thursday, 30 March 2000, 5:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, New Zealand, 30 March 2000. Police forcibly removed and arrested three Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to the gates of the Nestle Distribution Centre in Wiri, South Auckland at 6am this morning. They have been charged with trespass ... More >>
Greenpeace exposes GE contamination of Nestle
Thursday, 30 March 2000, 9:37 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace exposes GE contamination of Nestle food in New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand, 30 March 2000 – Greenpeace activists today have halted distribution of Nestle products at Nestle’s South Auckland distribution centre. The action aims to prevent food potentially ... More >>
WTO Must Apply The Precautionary Principle: GPeace
Saturday, 25 March 2000, 10:21 am | Greenpeace
GENEVA, March 23, 2000 - The credibility of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will be further diminished unless it recognises and implements the precautionary principle, Greenpeace said today as world trade talks on agriculture resumed here. More >>
Russian Cabinet Has Plans To Import Nuclear Waste
Saturday, 25 March 2000, 10:19 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
MOSCOW, March 23, 2000 – Russia could move a step closer to becoming the world’s nuclear waste dump with the cabinet of ministers expected to approve today plans to overturn national environmental legislation and import nuclear waste. More >>
Greenpeace frees abandoned pirate fish catch
Tuesday, 21 March 2000, 12:54 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Southern Ocean, Antarctica, Tuesday, 21 March 2000 – Greenpeace has discovered five kilometres of abandoned pirate fishing line bearing fish so valuable they are known as ‘white gold’ in illegal fishing circles. Crew, including five New Zealanders, ... More >>
Statement Pinochet Case - Amnesty Internatinonal
Friday, 3 March 2000, 10:23 am | Greenpeace
Clarification of Amnesty International's Position on the Case In the light of recent press reports indicating that groups that have campaigned for Pinochet to stand trial "privately admit that they can do little more to prevent his departure,"* ... More >>
Greenpeace Disappointed by GE Food Conference
Thursday, 2 March 2000, 3:27 pm | Greenpeace
Edinburgh, March 1, 2000 --- Greenpeace today expressed its disappointment by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) food safety conference and the draft report produced by the organisers. The conference closed today in Edinburgh, ... More >>
