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Gov’s oil permit announcement shows “broken” NZ oil industry
Thursday, 15 December 2016, 3:18 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
December 15, 2016: The absence of any offshore oil permits and just a single onshore permit in the just-announced 2016 Block Offer shows that the National Government’s oil agenda is broken, says Greenpeace. More >>
Small step to save dolphins - what about Talleys and Govt?
Thursday, 15 December 2016, 8:56 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 15 December 2016: Greenpeace welcomes Sanford and Moana’s new commitment to reducing set net fishing in some of the habitat of the critically endangered Maui dolphin - it is a small step in the right direction. But why won’t the other fishing ... More >>
Greenpeace reveals world’s biggest seismic ship
Sunday, 11 December 2016, 7:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sunday, December 11: Greenpeace NZ has released aerial footage from a reconnaissance flight of the world’s biggest seismic ship, the Amazon Warrior, blasting for oil 120 nautical miles off the Wairarapa Coast. More >>
Anadarko the latest company to cull search for oil in NZ
Friday, 9 December 2016, 3:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, December 9: Texan oil giant Anadarko is the latest to join the growing list of companies to scale back or completely quit their search for oil in New Zealand. More >>
First national human rights investigation on climate change
Friday, 9 December 2016, 2:28 pm | Greenpeace
First national human rights investigation into climate change impacts proceeds despite opposition from fossil fuel companies More >>
ASA rejects challenge to Greenpeace’s "solar tax" campaign
Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 12:44 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, December 6: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a complaint about Greenpeace’s use of the word “tax” to describe an extra charge for solar power has no grounds to proceed. More >>
NZ taxpayers forced to fund dirty rivers, again
Thursday, 24 November 2016, 12:32 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday 24 November - New Zealand taxpayers are again being forced to prop up the Hurunui irrigation dams and will get dirty rivers and increasing rural debt in return, Greenpeace said today. More >>
Oil survey ship flouts safety law in NZ waters during quake
Thursday, 17 November 2016, 12:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, November 17: Upon its arrival in New Zealand waters, the world’s largest seismic surveying ship turned off transmission from its mandatory AIS safety device, including throughout the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit early on Monday ... More >>
Goff’s new Auckland Council takes first vote on oil drilling
Thursday, 10 November 2016, 10:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, November 10: A recent change in the balance of power at the Auckland Council could see a vote against the Government’s offshore oil plans succeed today, where it has previously narrowly failed. More >>
New Zealand’s promise “dead in the water”
Friday, 4 November 2016, 11:51 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, November 4: Greenpeace New Zealand is calling for a summer of action to highlight what it’s calling the Government’s “sham plan” to meet the Paris Climate Change Agreement, which came into force today. More >>
Greenpeace & scientists team up to search for Māui dolphin
Wednesday, 2 November 2016, 1:04 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace New Zealand has teamed up with researchers at the University of Auckland in an effort to discover more about the critically endangered Māui dolphin, including where they go in winter. More >>
Government urged to better protect Māui dolphin
Thursday, 20 October 2016, 3:35 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, October 20: Greenpeace New Zealand is calling on further protection for Māui dolphin after the latest population estimate shows the number of the critically endangered dolphin has potentially risen. More >>
Greenpeace on PCE report into agricultural emissions
Wednesday, 19 October 2016, 2:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
In response to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's report “ Climate change and Agriculture: Understanding biological greenhouse gases”, Greenpeace Sustainable Agriculture Campaigner Genevieve Toop said: More >>
Unprecedented lawsuit involving Statoil launched
Wednesday, 19 October 2016, 9:53 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday, October 18: An unprecedented legal case has been filed against the Norwegian Government for allowing oil companies including state-owned Statoil to drill for new oil in the Arctic. More >>
Greenpeace summer of action as Statoil signals retreat
Friday, 14 October 2016, 12:57 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, October 14: In the wake of Norwegian oil giant Statoil’s sudden exit from Northland, Greenpeace NZ is calling for a summer of action to drive Statoil and other oil companies out of the country for good. More >>
Tiki Taane and Greenpeace protest "solar tax"
Monday, 10 October 2016, 3:32 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday, October 10: New Zealand musician Tiki Taane has just taken 45,000 paper suns to New Zealand’s electricity watchdog, each with the name of someone who signed a petition demanding the authority support solar energy and prohibit electricity ... More >>
Greenpeace welcomes Hawke’s Bay anti-dam council
Sunday, 9 October 2016, 11:04 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sunday 9 October - Greenpeace has welcomed the preliminary results of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council election, saying the new council's top priority must be to ditch the Ruataniwha dam. More >>
Dam promoters look to acquire land under Public Works Act
Wednesday, 28 September 2016, 3:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday 28 September- In an extraordinary move, the Hawke’s Bay Regional Investment company has said it’s taking the first step in the process of acquiring land needed for the Ruataniwha Dam under the Public Works Act. More >>
Greenpeace demands end to public subsidies for irrigation
Wednesday, 21 September 2016, 8:20 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday 21 September - Greenpeace is demanding an end to public subsidies for large-scale irrigation projects, after a report revealed the Government has thrown millions of dollar at a proposed irrigation project in the Wairarapa that doesn’t stack up ... More >>
Heron report shows MPI caught by fishing industry
Friday, 16 September 2016, 3:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 16 September 2016 - The Heron report provides further evidence that the fisheries section of the Ministry of Primary Industry has been captured by the very industry it was supposed to be regulating More >>
