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Greenpeace NZ sets out in crowdfunded boat
Saturday, 8 April 2017, 11:34 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has launched its crowdfunded boat ‘ Taitu ’ this morning from Napier and is heading out to confront the world’s biggest seismic blasting ship. More >>
“Worrying web of connections” between MPI & fishing industry
Monday, 3 April 2017, 10:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday, April 3: A Greenpeace investigation has revealed the true extent of the powers that the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) has given the fishing industry to self-regulate and report on its own performance. More >>
Greenpeace prepares to confront “climate madness” at sea
Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 9:17 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, March 29: In the wake of today’s sweeping executive order by US President Donald Trump to reverse efforts to address climate change and instead protect the oil, gas and coal industries, Greenpeace New Zealand is preparing to go and confront ... More >>
Greenpeace response to OECD and Vivid reports
Tuesday, 21 March 2017, 2:30 pm | Greenpeace
International reports out today point to reducing cow numbers as a possible answer to two environmental dilemmas facing New Zealanders. More >>
Resettlement in contaminated areas steamrolls ahead
Saturday, 11 March 2017, 8:40 pm | Greenpeace
Tokyo, 11 March 2017 - Greenpeace today commemorates the more than 15,000 people who died six years ago in the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, and the tens of thousands of survivors of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. More >>
Greenpeace NZ crowdfunding boat to confront seismic blaster
Thursday, 9 March 2017, 1:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, March 9: Greenpeace is crowdfunding to buy a boat to confront the world’s biggest seismic blasting ship, the Amazon Warrior, as it searches for oil off the East Coast of the North Island. More >>
Swimmable rivers: Greenpeace says look below the surface
Thursday, 23 February 2017, 3:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is encouraging voters to look below the surface of the Government’s new announcement on swimmable rivers. More >>
Greenpeace challenges PEPANZ to a public debate
Monday, 13 February 2017, 10:01 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
I’m writing in regard to your invitation to attend the 2017 Petroleum Conference, taking place in Taranaki this March. I appreciate that this must be a significant step for PEPANZ, as it is the first time that Greenpeace has been formally asked ... More >>
Greenpeace warns more algal blooms to come
Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 12:35 pm | Greenpeace
Tired of being told your dogs might die if you take them down to the river? More >>
DairyNZ backs down as Greenpeace launches new video
Thursday, 2 February 2017, 5:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
As DairyNZ backs down from a public fight over a controversial TV ad, Greenpeace has released a new video about industrial dairying and polluted rivers. More >>
Greenpeace welcomes DairyNZ backdown
Thursday, 2 February 2017, 12:54 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says it won't let up on pressuring the dairy industry to stop expanding and polluting more rivers. More >>
Battle over solar tax heats up as full hearing announced
Wednesday, 1 February 2017, 10:38 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, 1 February: An extra charge for solar users, deemed a “tax on solar”, will soon be challenged in a full hearing after an independent authority agreed it needed to be “fully tested”. More >>
2016 officially declared hottest on record
Thursday, 19 January 2017, 11:55 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, 19 January: As 2016 is officially declared the hottest year ever recorded, the world’s largest seismic ship is searching for deep sea oil off New Zealand’s East Coast. More >>
Public frustration about dirty rivers spilling over
Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 3:18 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace says a $40,000 attack on a farmer’s irrigation machinery could be a sign of overwhelming public frustration about polluted rivers. More >>
Greenpeace intercept world’s biggest seismic oil ship
Saturday, 14 January 2017, 10:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Press release - January 13, 2017 Greenpeace crew have made contact with the world’s biggest seismic oil ship after travelling 50 nautical miles on two rigid-hulled inflatables off the coast of Wairarapa. Greenpeace crew have made contact with the world’s ... More >>
Greenpeace intercepts world’s biggest seismic oil ship
Friday, 13 January 2017, 3:13 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, 13 January 2017: Greenpeace crew have made contact with the world’s biggest seismic oil ship after travelling 50 nautical miles on two rigid-hulled inflatables off the coast of Wairarapa. More >>
Cancelling new coal plants would save 50,000 lives a year
Friday, 13 January 2017, 2:21 pm | Greenpeace
Hong Kong, 13 January 2017 - Approximately 50,000 lives a year could saved by 2030 if no new coal-fired power plants are built in Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, according to a groundbreaking peer reviewed study from researchers at ... More >>
Greenpeace NZ tailing world’s biggest seismic blasting ship
Friday, 13 January 2017, 11:26 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
3 January: Greenpeace New Zealand is on the tail of the biggest seismic surveying ship in the world as it blasts the sea floor in a search for deep sea oil, about 20 nautical miles off the coast of Wairarapa. More >>
Greenpeace warns more algal blooms to come
Thursday, 12 January 2017, 3:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday 12 January - Greenpeace warns that the toxic algal bloom and public health warning currently present on the Hurunui River will only become more frequent if the Hurunui Irrigation dams go ahead. More >>
Greenpeace calls on the Dairy Industry to come clean
Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 8:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
10 January: Despite widespread public concern over New Zealand's polluted rivers and lakes, the dairy industry plans to push the national dairy herd to record numbers. More >>