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EU fisheries ministers tinker around the edges of reform
Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 4:15 pm | Greenpeace
European fisheries ministers meeting in Brussels to discuss the reform of EU fishing rules are expected to ignore the critical imbalance between the bloated size of EU fleets and dwindling stocks, said Greenpeace. More >>
Action on Shell Icebreaker in Finland
Sunday, 18 March 2012, 12:24 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace Nordic activists have today scaled and boarded two Shell-contracted icebreakers in Helsinki, occupying the vessels as they prepared to sail for the Alaskan Arctic to support Shell’s Arctic oil drilling there. More >>
Sealord ignoring global shift to greener tuna fishing
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 12:49 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sealord is ignoring a global trend by canned tuna retailers taking steps to protect tuna stocks from overfishing, says Greenpeace. On Monday Italy’s leading canned tuna brand, Mareblu, joined a growing list of retailers which will no longer sell ... More >>
Lessons From Fukushima: Disaster Report
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 4:23 pm | Greenpeace
Tokyo, February 28, 2012 - Greenpeace today released “Lessons from Fukushima”, a new report which shows that it was not a natural disaster which led to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Japan’s east coast, but the failures ... More >>
US retailer says no to Ross Sea seafood
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 2:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
A third US retailer has announced it will not stock seafood from Antartica’s Ross Sea for environmental reasons, reports Greenpeace. More >>
Cottonsoft’s link to illegal rainforest destruction
Friday, 2 March 2012, 9:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
An Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) mill in Indonesia that produced paper used to make Cottonsoft-branded toilet paper sold here in New Zealand has been exposed by a Greenpeace investigation as having regularly milled ramin, a rainforest species protected by both international ... More >>
'Shadowlands' Photographs Highlight Human Cost Of Fukushima
Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 10:34 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, February 20, 2012 – Greenpeace today launched 'Shadowlands', a presentation of haunting photographs depicting the impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the plight of people displaced by the crisis, and a warning to others that a serious ... More >>
Lucy Lawless and co after release from police (Photos)
Monday, 27 February 2012, 8:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Lucy Lawless and co-accused after their release from New Plymouth police station following their occupation of an oil well drilling ship destined for the Alaska. More >>
Arrests End Shell Arctic Drillship Occupation
Monday, 27 February 2012, 3:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, February 27th 2012 — The occupation of an Arctic-bound Shell drillship by six Greenpeace activists including actor Lucy Lawless ended this morning after police climbed the ship’s drilling tower and arrested the group. The protest was ... More >>
Lucy Lawless Arrest Pictures
Monday, 27 February 2012, 1:59 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Lucy Lawless and other Greenpeace supporters were arrested on Monday ending their protest on an oil well drilling ship destined for the Alaskan Coastline. More >>
Activists, Lucy Lawless arrested for drillship occupation
Monday, 27 February 2012, 11:40 am | Greenpeace
The occupation of an Arctic-bound Shell drillship by six Greenpeace activists including actor Lucy Lawless ended this morning after police climbed the ship’s drilling tower and arrested the group. More >>
Activists Vow to Continue Arctic Drill Ship Occupation
Saturday, 25 February 2012, 7:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 25 February 2012 — Actor Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace New Zealand activists this afternoon vowed to continue their occupation of Arctic bound Shell drillship Noble Discoverer into a third day. More >>
Lucy Lawless Occupies Arctic Drilling Ship
Friday, 24 February 2012, 9:49 am | Greenpeace
At 7am this morning actor Lucy Lawless joined Greenpeace New Zealand activists in stopping a Shell-contracted drillship from departing the port of Taranaki for the remote Arctic, where its exploratory oil drilling programme threatens to devastate ... More >>
Pressure Grows on Sealord as US Food Giant Changes its Tuna
Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 12:22 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 15 February 2012 – Pressure is growing on Sealord to change its tuna sourcing policy following big moves by one of the largest food retailers in the United States, says Greenpeace. More >>
Greenpeace Blog - Steve Abel on Oil Enthusiasm
Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 1:58 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Recently some commentators have revealed something about the way their brain functions in singing the praises of new fossil fuels. We shouldn’t be surprised that oil companies are excited about oil, though the Sunday Star Times seems to think it warrants ... More >>
Rena ‘ghost birds’ appear in Auckland
Monday, 12 December 2011, 12:20 pm | Greenpeace
Auckland, December 12th 2011 - This morning 150 original art prints made from a little blue penguin killed by the Rena disaster appeared along Auckland’s Khyber Pass Road. The prints are accompanied by the message ‘Rena did this. Deep sea oil drilling ... More >>
Cottonsoft's barrage of PR
Saturday, 10 December 2011, 6:47 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Well, it's fair to say that a week is a long time when it comes to campaigning and no more so than when you're up against one of the world's most notorious rainforest destroyers. In the last weeks we have seen a volley of wild claims , accusations ... More >>
Report shows carbon footprint of Fonterra’s PKE imports
Sunday, 4 December 2011, 3:06 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 4 December 2011: A new report released today by Greenpeace New Zealand reveals that the 1.4 million tonnes of palm kernel expeller (PKE) imported into New Zealand during the 2010/2011 dairy season, could have produced up to 8.9 million tonnes of ... More >>
Kiwi’s footage of tuna scandal gains global audience
Friday, 2 December 2011, 12:22 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 2 December 2011 - A New Zealand whistleblower’s shocking footage of marine life dying at the hands of industrial tuna fishers in the Pacific Ocean has gained a global audience. More >>
Durban climate talks: Last Chance for the USA
Monday, 28 November 2011, 1:17 pm | Greenpeace
On the eve of the opening of the latest round of UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, Greenpeace today declared that it is time for our Governments to stop listening to the carbon-intensive polluting corporations, and start listening instead to the ... More >>
