Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 52]
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 >>
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 >>
