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“Huntly must close” in wake of coal company bankruptcy
Thursday, 14 April 2016, 12:45 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, April 14: The pressure is mounting for New Zealand’s last coal fired power-plant, Huntly, to close its two remaining coal units in the wake of news that the world’s largest private sector coal company has just filed for bankruptcy. More >>
Government Should Pull Plug on Billion Dollar Dam
Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 10:36 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The government should pull the plug on the controversial Ruataniwha irrigation scheme in Hawke’s Bay, as costs look set to soar towards the billion dollar mark, Greenpeace says today. More >>
Whiskas Clearly Unable to Deny Cat Food Linked to Slavery
Thursday, 24 March 2016, 10:35 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The owner of international pet food giant Whiskas have admitted that questions over their links to modern-day slavery are ‘very worrying’ More >>
Planned New Coal Power Plants Will Deplete Water Resources
Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 1:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Hong Kong, 22 March 2016 - The world’s rapidly dwindling freshwater resources could be further depleted if plans for hundreds of new coal power plants worldwide go ahead, threatening severe drought and competition, according to a new Greenpeace International ... More >>
Oil Block Offer a ‘Desperate, Last-Ditch Bid"
Monday, 21 March 2016, 9:36 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Responding to today’s oil block offer announcement by Simon Bridges, Greenpeace’s senior climate campaigner Simon Boxer said: More >>
Hundreds descend on Central Auckland to blockade oil event
Monday, 21 March 2016, 8:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
More than 200 people descended on New Zealand’s largest oil industry conference at dawn this morning blocking its entrances as part of a Greenpeace-organised demonstration of peaceful civil disobedience. More >>
Bill McKibben throws his weight behind civil disobedience
Thursday, 17 March 2016, 1:15 pm | Greenpeace
World-leading environmentalist Bill McKibben is today urging New Zealanders to take part in peaceful civil disobedience to overthrow “radicalism”. More >>
John Key Should Resign as Tourism Minister: Greenpeace
Monday, 14 March 2016, 10:27 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Key’s continued backing for intensive dairy irrigation schemes, which will increase pollution of New Zealand’s rivers and streams, means he is unfit for the tourism job, claims Greenpeace. More >>
Dairy Irrigation Subsidies Must Be Ditched to Avert Crisis
Thursday, 10 March 2016, 11:58 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Government subsidies for dairy irrigation schemes should be dropped in order to avert a dairy crisis, Greenpeace says today. The government currently has around $120million of taxpayers’ money sitting in a fund, called Crown Irrigation Investments, which ... More >>
Whiskas Embroiled in Modern-Day Slavery Scandal
Wednesday, 9 March 2016, 10:49 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Cat owners who buy Whiskas for their pet may unwittingly be funding modern-day slavery and destructive fishing methods, Greenpeace New Zealand says today. More >>
Landcorp Ditches Industrial Dairy Plans Over Pollution Fears
Monday, 7 March 2016, 11:02 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Responding to news that state-owned company Landcorp, the country’s biggest dairy farmer, is set to ditch industrial dairy plans in Waikato, Genevieve Toop, Greenpeace’s agriculture campaigner, said: More >>
Climate action “a matter of life and death”
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 2:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, 3 March: The month of February has experienced a whopping temperature rise not seen before in the history of record-keeping, according to just-released global satellite data. More >>
Radiation impacts of Fukushima disaster investigated
Thursday, 25 February 2016, 3:14 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tokyo, 25 February 2016 - Greenpeace Japan today announced it is conducting an underwater investigation into radiation contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. The survey will be conducted from a Japanese research vessel ... More >>
Greenpeace launches campaign against NZ’s largest oil event
Tuesday, 23 February 2016, 10:15 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, February 23: Greenpeace is calling for members of the public to take part in a co-ordinated demonstration of peaceful civil disobedience at the annual petroleum conference at SkyCity in Auckland. More >>
Government’s “failing” oil agenda hits hurdle
Monday, 15 February 2016, 11:17 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Monday, February 15: As of last month, there was not a single petroleum company searching for oil in New Zealand using exploratory drilling. More >>
Activists convicted but receive no punishment
Thursday, 11 February 2016, 3:51 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The five Greenpeace activists who stormed on board a New Zealand Government climate research ship that was found to be searching for oil have been discharged – and will receive no punishment – after being convicted at the Auckland District Court ... More >>
ChinaChem takeover of Syngenta - Greenpeace statement
Friday, 5 February 2016, 9:58 am | Greenpeace
Beijing, 4 February 2016 - On the announcement of ChemChina to takeover the pesticide and seed company Syngenta, Philippe Schenkel, Ecological Farming Campaigner at Greenpeace Switzerland, said: More >>
Greenpeace Response to TPP Protests
Thursday, 4 February 2016, 11:27 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Response to TPP Protests Responding to today’s protests in Auckland ahead of the signing of the controversial TPP deal, Greenpeace executive director Russel Norman said: “Peaceful protest is the beating heart of any democracy. And ... More >>
Coal dropped from Vietnam’s future energy plans
Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 4:00 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Bangkok, 27 January 2016 - Vietnam will effectively shelve the equivalent of 70 large coal power plants following an announcement from the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung that the country would drop all further coal-fired power plant projects and move ... More >>
City rail announcement a “huge win for people power"
Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 1:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
January 27, 2016: Today’s announcement that the Government will contribute funding to a city rail link in Auckland despite Prime Minister John Key’s past resistance to it, shows that public pressure is working, says Greenpeace’s executive director ... More >>
