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Greenpeace Exposes Former US Base Equipment Leak
Thursday, 2 March 2000, 3:22 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Manila/Amsterdam, 29 February 2000: Greenpeace today removed a former United States military airbase transformer which was leaking extremely toxic industrial chemicals (PCBs) into the environment in a residential area of Mabalacat, in the Philippines. More >>
Greenpeace - Commercial Whaling Could Return
Wednesday, 26 January 2000, 10:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland/ MV Arctic Sunrise, Australia, 25 January 2000: - As the Greenpeace vessel, the MV Arctic Sunrise, arrived in Australia today after over a month on the high seas taking non- violent direct action to disrupt Japan’s illegal whaling programme, ... More >>
Japan's Whaling Offensive Media Briefing
Tuesday, 25 January 2000, 5:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Background: The Japanese government, pressed by its whaling industry, has embarked on an ambitious programme to resume large scale commercial whaling on the high seas, despite international opposition. More >>
Press Statement By Greenpeace Campaigner, John Bow
Tuesday, 25 January 2000, 5:55 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
25 January, 2000 - MV Arctic Sunrise, Australia: "The world has now witnessed Japan’s whaling activities as it continues to defy international law and hunt whales illegally in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary. More >>
Greenpeace Warns Commercial Whaling Could Return
Tuesday, 25 January 2000, 5:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland/ MV Arctic Sunrise, Australia, 25 January 2000: - As the Greenpeace vessel, the MV Arctic Sunrise, arrived in Australia today after over a month on the high seas taking non- violent direct action to disrupt Japan’s illegal whaling programme, ... More >>
Greenpeace Launch Global Whale Sanctuary Petition
Wednesday, 19 January 2000, 5:42 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland - 19 January 2000: Greenpeace is today launching the Global Whale Sanctuary petition at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland. The petition calls on the New Zealand government to take a leadership role in ending commercial whaling ... More >>
Brazil Opposes Japanese Whaling
Monday, 17 January 2000, 2:01 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
AMSTERDAM/SOUTHERN OCEAN: As Greenpeace today continued to take non-violent direct action against the Japanese fleet illegally whaling in the protected Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Brazil added its voice to the growing international opposition to ... More >>
Activists Dragged Up Stern Ramp Of Whaling Ship
Monday, 17 January 2000, 9:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 13 January, 2000: Late last night (NZ time) two Greenpeace activists in an inflatable boat were dragged half way up the stern ramp of a Japanese whaling ship after they attached their boat to a tow-line being used to transfer a harpooned ... More >>
NZ Demands End To Illegal Japanese Whaling
Monday, 17 January 2000, 8:44 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
AMSTERDAM/SOUTHERN OCEAN, 14 January, 2000: Greenpeace today welcomed New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clarke’s condemnation of illegal Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary. The Prime Minister has ordered her Foreign Minister to make a high ... More >>
Greenpeace: Japan Returns Plutonium To UK Sender
Thursday, 13 January 2000, 10:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
AMSTERDAM -- Greenpeace has condemned Japan’s plan to return to Britain the controversial cargo of plutonium reactor fuel that arrived in Japan last September, calling the plan "ludicrous" and "misguided". The dramatic decision to return ... More >>
Whaling Activists Dragged Up Stern Of Whaling Ship
Thursday, 13 January 2000, 10:50 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
MAJOR ESCALATION IN CAMPAIGN TO STOP ILLEGAL JAPANESE WHALING AS ACTIVISTS DRAGGED UP STERN RAMP OF WHALING SHIP AMSTERDAM/SOUTHERN OCEAN More >>
Inupiat Eskimos And Greenpeace Challenge BP
Sunday, 24 October 1999, 2:51 pm | Greenpeace
INUPIAT ESKIMOS AND GREENPEACE GO TO COURT TO CHALLENGE BP AMOCO OIL DRILLING IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN More >>
Greenpeace sees Boost for Onshore Decommissioning
Sunday, 24 October 1999, 2:49 pm | Greenpeace
Oslo, 22 October 1999 - Greenpeace today welcomed Phillips Norway‘s proposal to decommission onshore all fourteen steel oil platforms from the North Sea „Ekofisk I“ field, as a significant step that will boost the development of the onshore decommissioning ... More >>
Plutonium Shipping - UK Bans Greenpeace Vessel
Wednesday, 21 July 1999, 2:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The UK Government has banned the MV Greenpeace from UK waters, a move described as draconian and anti-democratic by the international environmental organisation. More >>
Plutonium Shipments Depart Barrow For Japan
Tuesday, 20 July 1999, 12:51 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace yesterday alerted the international community to the departure of two vessels, due to carry nuclear weapons-usable plutonium fuel from Europe to Japan, from the port of Barrow in northern England yesterday afternoon. More >>
Injunction Against Greenpeace Over Plutonium
Saturday, 17 July 1999, 2:53 pm | Greenpeace
Caribbean states and the New Zealand Government have already expressed formal opposition to this shipment, the first commercial plutonium fuel shipment to Japan and some 50 nations have objected to previous nuclear transports. More >>
Greenpeace On Nuclear Power Plants In Ukraine
Wednesday, 23 June 1999, 6:44 am | Greenpeace
Flying inflatable over G7 Summit as Greenpeace calls for no money for nuclear power plants in Ukraine More >>
