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Dam decision huge victory against big irrigation
Thursday, 6 July 2017, 11:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says today’s court decision over the Ruataniwha Dam is a major victory in the struggle against big irrigation and the nationwide intensification of dairying. More >>
Too Many Cows Could Make Us Sick
Wednesday, 28 June 2017, 12:09 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists are taking over Parliament lawn this lunchtime with a herd of dairy cows. More >>
Apple, Samsung products among least repairable
Tuesday, 27 June 2017, 4:19 pm | Greenpeace
Apple, Samsung products among least repairable in new Greenpeace assessment of tech brands San Francisco, 27 June 2017 - Fairphone, Dell and HP are the only companies that make spare parts and repair manuals available to the public, while products ... More >>
Time for “diseased” electricity industry overhaul
Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 2:24 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, June 20: Greenpeace has called for an overhaul of the electricity industry after a complaint against a tax on solar was quashed in court. More >>
Dairy Bosses’ climate change plan is all talk
Wednesday, 14 June 2017, 2:50 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Dairy Bosses’ climate change plan is “all talk and no trousers” - Greenpeace Wednesday, 14 June 2017: Greenpeace says the Dairy Industry’s new “action plan” on climate change is completely lacking in any form of serious action. It‘s a charter ... More >>
Leaked report shows public misled over snapper policing
Tuesday, 6 June 2017, 7:14 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Leaked report shows public misled over snapper policing - Greenpeace. Tuesday, 6 June: A Government report leaked to Greenpeace shows the public is being misled over the effectiveness of video cameras used to police the fishing industry. A Ministry ... More >>
Greenpeace climbers prepare message above Beehive
Tuesday, 6 June 2017, 9:15 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, June 6: Four Greenpeace climbers are preparing to hang a large banner from a crane next to the Beehive to protest the arrival of US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, who is in Wellington. More >>
Trump can’t kill Paris Climate Agreement
Friday, 2 June 2017, 9:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, June 2: Greenpeace New Zealand has labeled Trump “morally bankrupt” over his decision abandon the Paris Climate Agreement, and is calling on Prime Minister Bill English to stand with other world leaders and speak out against the move. More >>
Government delays “morally repugnant” case against activists
Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 8:28 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, May 31: The Government has asked for more time to take a case against three Greenpeace activists who put themselves in the path of the world’s largest seismic oil ship, the Amazon Warrior, in April. More >>
Joyce’s Budget a “billion-dollar handout” to polluters
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 2:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, May 25: Greenpeace New Zealand’s Executive Director, Dr Russel Norman, has blasted Stephen Joyce’s first Budget for “actively funding” pollution. Norman says the just-released Budget pours money into subsidising water and climate ... More >>
Berlin and Beijing united on climate in the age of Trump
Monday, 22 May 2017, 8:56 pm | Greenpeace
Berlin, 22 May 2017 - German Environmental Minister Barbara Hendricks and Chinese Special Climate Envoy Xie Zhenhua jointly held a press conference at the opening of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, where the two ministers stressed the importance ... More >>
Govt’s “absence of a backbone” destroying NZ’s rivers
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 2:16 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to end public subsidies to think-big irrigation schemes that will create new intensive dairy farms and more freshwater pollution. More >>
DairyNZ undermining environmental efforts of dairy farmers
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 1:14 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling on DairyNZ and other dairy leadership to stop undermining the efforts of dairy farmers to clean up waterways. More >>
Havelock contamination scandal not a one off
Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 2:37 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, May 10: Greenpeace is warning of more Havelock North’s if New Zealand doesn't start managing the intersection between industrial agriculture and water. More >>
Nothing new in Ruataniwha review
Monday, 8 May 2017, 4:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday, May 8: The review of the Ruataniwha irrigation dam confirms Greenpeace New Zealand’s view that the dam will pollute local rivers, heighten the risk of further water contamination and is a huge economic gamble. More >>
Palm oil giant IOI moves to eliminate deforestation
Friday, 28 April 2017, 4:25 pm | Greenpeace
Jakarta, 28 April 2017 - The IOI Group, one of the world’s largest palm oil traders, today made a significant commitment to address deforestation and exploitation throughout its supply chain. [1] Greenpeace has suspended its active campaign to give IOI time ... More >>
Time the Government woke up to its own advice on freshwater
Thursday, 27 April 2017, 12:42 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says it’s time the Government woke up to its own advice on freshwater and stopped making matters worse. More >>
Bill English crying “crocodile tears” over flood devastation
Thursday, 13 April 2017, 1:37 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, 13 April: As the country braces for Cyclone Cook, the latest and the most devastating in a series of extreme weather events, Greenpeace NZ has slammed Prime Minister Bill English for crying “crocodile tears”. More >>
Greenpeace swimmers stop Amazon Warrior seismic blasting
Monday, 10 April 2017, 12:34 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
10 April 2017 - Greenpeace activists have thrown themselves into the sea in front of a huge offshore oil exploration vessel off the New Zealand coast. More >>
Greenpeace NZ boat Taitu intercepts seismic oil ship
Sunday, 9 April 2017, 10:40 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Greenpeace boat Taitu has intercepted the world’s biggest seismic blasting ship, the Amazon Warrior, AKA The Beast, about 50 nautical miles off the Wairarapa Coast. More >>
