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Labour climate policy a good start but not strong enough
Friday, 8 September 2017, 11:05 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, September 8: In response to the Labour Party’s climate policy released this morning, Greenpeace climate campaigner, Kate Simcock, says: More >>
Arrests made at Greenpeace irrigation dam occupation
Thursday, 7 September 2017, 3:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, 7 September: After eight hours occupying the Central Plains Waters’ irrigation dam nine people have been arrested by police and removed. All have been charged with trespass. More >>
Lightning occupation to shut down big irrigation scheme
Thursday, 7 September 2017, 11:52 am | Greenpeace
The group equipped with banners saying "Save our Rivers" have launched a lightning occupation of the dam. More >>
Lightning occupation to shut down big irrigation scheme
Thursday, 7 September 2017, 8:54 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thur 7th Sept: Greenpeace activists and locals have taken over a dam construction site in central Canterbury this morning - defying legal threats from a big irrigation company. More >>
Leaked report shows climate must be key election issue
Monday, 4 September 2017, 11:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday, September 4: Responding to the leaked Ministry for the Environment report that estimates $19 billion of property is at risk in New Zealand from the effects of climate change, Greenpeace climate campaigner Kate Simcock says: More >>
Greenpeace: Government’s agriculture research fund “pitiful”
Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 3:27 pm | Greenpeace
Wednesday, August 30: Responding to the Government’s announcement that it will be setting up a new $400,000 scholarship programme for agricultural greenhouse gas research, Greenpeace sustainable agriculture campaigner, Genevieve Toop, says: More >>
Greenpeace crew plead “Not Guilty” in historic climate case
Monday, 28 August 2017, 8:44 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday, August 28: Greenpeace and the activists charged under the ‘Anadarko Amendment’ after swimming in front of the world’s largest seismic oil ship, have pleaded Not Guilty. More >>
“Ban the Bag” policy needs to happen sooner - Greenpeace
Sunday, 27 August 2017, 2:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The Greens say they’d make it happen in the first three years of Government. More >>
The world mourns Marshallese climate leader Tony de Brum
Thursday, 24 August 2017, 4:25 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
22 August 2017: Today the world mourns a fearless voice in the battle for global climate safety, Climate Ambassador and former Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Tony de Brum. More >>
Greenpeace tells farming leadership - show us the substance
Tuesday, 22 August 2017, 4:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the farming leadership’s acknowledgement that the problem with our waterways is greater than previously admitted. More >>
Australia’s Ambassador for Climate Distraction is Back
Tuesday, 22 August 2017, 11:16 am | Greenpeace
Patrick Suckling, Australia’s Ambassador for the Environment, is touring the Pacific Islands again, shamelessly spreading misleading messages on Australia’s climate action and solidarity with our vulnerable states. More >>
Greenpeace activists stop Statoil rig drilling in the Arctic
Friday, 18 August 2017, 9:42 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, August 18: A New Zealander is among a group of activists who have halted a Statoil rig drilling in the Arctic. More >>
Microbead policy a “good start”
Thursday, 17 August 2017, 4:10 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is welcoming the Government’s latest announcement on microbeads as a good start. More >>
Super Fund’s $950m fossil fuel divestment an “aha” moment
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 2:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, August 15: Greenpeace is calling the New Zealand Superannuation Fund’s just-announced $950 million divestment from big polluters an “aha” moment for the country’s economy. More >>
Big Irrigation’s “death-grip” costs more than water charge
Friday, 11 August 2017, 3:50 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday 11 August 2017: “Farming leadership and politicians are scaremongering by using false facts on water pricing proposals in their latest effort to keep the dairy industry free of accountability for polluted rivers,” says Greenpeace’s ... More >>
NZ Govt Implicated in Covert Spy Operation on Greenpeace
Thursday, 10 August 2017, 10:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, August 10: Greenpeace New Zealand’s Executive Director, Dr Russel Norman, is calling on the Government to “categorically deny” any knowledge of a covert spy operation that saw staff at the environmental organisation being watched daily, ... More >>
Labour’s Plan a “Watershed” for Clean Rivers
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 11:55 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
9 August, 2017 - Greenpeace have welcomed Labour’s commitment to ditch National’s $480 million taxpayer fund for new irrigation schemes. More >>
“High time” for a Solar Revolution
Friday, 4 August 2017, 2:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
4th August 2017 - Reports that up to a third of electricity generated for New Zealand this winter has come from the burning of coal and gas have prompted Greenpeace to call for a Solar revolution. More >>
“We’ll be back” vows Greenpeace
Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 11:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
August 2017 - Tonight Greenpeace activists have brought their pipeline protest in Canterbury to a successful end. More >>
Greenpeace activists lock themselves inside irrigation pipes
Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 8:05 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wednesday 2nd July – Greenpeace is bringing construction of an enormous irrigation scheme to a halt this morning. More >>
