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Greenpeace Applauds ECan For Declaring Nitrate Emergency, Calls For Candidates To Pledge Real Action
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 1:30 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace’s Canterbury-based spokesperson Will Appelbe says, "Canterbury is facing a nitrate emergency and today, Environment Canterbury has listened to the voices of their constituents and finally acknowledged the seriousness of this issue." More >>
Cantabrians Say "Enough": Nitrate-Polluted Tap Water Returned To ECan
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 10:29 am | Greenpeace
Today’s rally takes place as councillors head into their final meeting before the local elections. At this meeting, councillors will vote on a motion to declare a 'Nitrate Emergency’ - put forward by Councillor Vicky Southworth. More >>
"Tough On Crime" Government Lets Repeat Pesticide Offenders Off The Hook
Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 8:06 am | Greenpeace
Documents released to Greenpeace show that since 2021, four companies were caught selling food with illegally high levels of pesticide residues on multiple occasions. Yet, in the past nine years, the Government has not prosecuted a single company for ... More >>
‘Choose Action’: Pacific Civil Society Calls To Deliver Strong Climate Plan And Reject North West Shelf Extension
Friday, 12 September 2025, 7:13 am | Greenpeace
If PM Albanese approves the North West Shelf gas project, it will be an outright assault on the Pacific’s survival, make a mockery of our global commitment to limit warming to 1.5C, lock in devastation for our islands. More >>
Damning MBIE Report: Coal Imports Skyrocket, Power Prices Remain High
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 12:54 pm | Greenpeace
The report also shows coal imports increased 650%, from 71.5 kilotonnes in the June 2024 quarter to 539 kilotonnes in the June 2025 quarter as shipments of coal arrived in the country to increase the stockpile for electricity generation. More >>
"Will They Protect Freshwater?" - Greenpeace Reveals Environment Canterbury Candidate Scorecard
Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 1:21 pm | Greenpeace
This is all laid out in Greenpeace’s freshwater scorecard released today, revealing which candidates standing in the ECan elections understand the seriousness of freshwater pollution, and are committed to taking action. More >>
"Bottom Trawling Kills" Message Projected Onto Downtown Wellington Building As Fisheries Meeting Starts
Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 10:39 am | Greenpeace
The survey was carried out despite the New Zealand government refusing to share the co-ordinates with the scientists working with Greenpeace. More >>
Greenpeace Calls For Cantabrians To Bring Polluted Drinking Water To ECan
Monday, 8 September 2025, 11:04 am | Greenpeace
The rally will take place on September 17th at 9:30am outside Environment Canterbury’s Christchurch headquarters. Greenpeace is asking participants to bring a jar of their drinking water with them. More >>
Seymour Is Rage-Baiting On Paris Agreement - Luxon Mustn’t Bite
Wednesday, 3 September 2025, 1:16 pm | Greenpeace
"Luxon is right: backing down on climate commitments would hammer New Zealand’s international credibility, our trade relationships, and the future of our farming sector," says Greenpeace campaigner Amanda Larsson. More >>
Palm Kernel Imports Skyrocketing As Climate Crisis Worsens
Monday, 1 September 2025, 1:41 pm | Greenpeace
Palm kernel has been the subject of significant controversy due to links to rainforest destruction in Southeast Asia. Earlier this year, an Indonesian Government document revealed that all five of the companies bringing palm kernel into New Zealand were ... More >>
Power Company ‘Vampires’ Bleed Households Dry To Fund 1.4 Billion Dollar Shareholder Payout
Wednesday, 27 August 2025, 9:15 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace is calling for urgent reform of the electricity sector. They say the Government should provide interest-free loans for household solar and consider intervening to cap the shareholder returns of the gentailers until they have sufficiently reinvested ... More >>
Grass-Fed Greenwash: Govt’s New Grass-Fed Standards Written By Fonterra
Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 9:16 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has received documents which prove that the grass-fed administrative standards were developed by an industry-led Technical Advisory Group, composed of dairy and red meat processors and lobby groups including Fonterra, Silver Fern Farms, and Beef ... More >>
Greenpeace Activists Arrested In Nelson After Occupying Bottom Trawling Vessel
Saturday, 23 August 2025, 12:20 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace spokesperson Juan Parada says, "These brave people have taken a stand for ocean health in delaying this vessel from leaving port to go bottom trawling." More >>
Greenpeace Activists Stop Talley’s Trawler From Leaving Nelson Port, Branding It An ‘Ocean Killer’
Saturday, 23 August 2025, 12:14 pm | Greenpeace
New Zealand is the last country operating a bottom trawling fleet in the High Seas of the South Pacific, including in an area of the Tasman Sea which has been flagged for early protection under the Global Ocean Treaty. More >>
Greenwash Case Still Hanging Over Fonterra’s Consumer Brands In Wake Of Sale To French Dairy Giant
Friday, 22 August 2025, 11:52 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace spokesperson Sinead Deighton-O’Flynn says "Fonterra may have washed its hands of Anchor products, including their Anchor Butter, but our legal case over Fonterra’s grassfed greenwash continues." More >>
ECAN Study Confirms Canterbury Nitrate Issue Escalating
Friday, 15 August 2025, 2:16 pm | Greenpeace
ECan’s latest Annual Ground Water Quality Survey released this week shows that nitrate-nitrogen contamination is worsening across 62% of groundwater wells, while 18% show no change in contamination and 20% show a decrease, in sites where a ten-year ... More >>
RMA Rollback Lets Agribusiness Dump Pollution Into Rivers Without Consent
Wednesday, 13 August 2025, 9:45 am | Greenpeace
The Government’s original bill proposed changing section 70 of the RMA so that councils could allow businesses to discharge contaminants to water without resource consent, even if it harmed aquatic life, so long as aquatic life was already being ... More >>
Academics Warn Luxon’s Approach To Climate Targets Risks Worsening Global Hunger
Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 6:48 pm | Greenpeace
"By advancing the dangerous concept of ‘no additional warming’ at the demand of the livestock lobby, international scientists say that Luxon and others will accelerate the climate crisis and worsen access to nutrition in poorer, food-insecure countries." More >>
Greenpeace Extends Invitation To Gore District Mayor To Work Together On Drinking Water Crisis
Thursday, 7 August 2025, 10:33 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Will Appelbe says "What Gore’s drinking water crisis highlights is something that we’ve known for a long time - we cannot allow unchecked dairy industry pollution to continue." More >>
Govt’s Anti-Climate Policies Should Be Top Of Hazards List In Latest Briefing Document
Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 1:55 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace spokesperson Amanda Larsson says "Top of the list of hazards should be the Government’s own policies, which are driving us closer to climate disaster. More >>
