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Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 74]
Celebrities join 100,000 Kiwis in saying no to deep sea oil
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 3:38 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Actor Lucy Lawless and climate scientist Jim Salinger today added their names to a Greenpeace petition calling for a shift to clean sources of energy. The number of people signing the petition has surged since the Rena disaster, and the total ... More >>
Greenpeace Has Launched The New Rainbow Warrior (video)
Friday, 4 November 2011, 12:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace Has Launched The New Rainbow Warrior – Undergoing Sea-Trials Greenpeace International has launched a replacement Rainbow Warrior. More >>
Auckland’s biggest problem is Wellington – Greenpeace
Monday, 31 October 2011, 2:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland planners must account for the realities of the 21st century, rather than clinging to the car-based dreams of the 1950s, if the city is to prosper, and improve its liveability, says Greenpeace New Zealand in a submission to be made today on ... More >>
Greenpeace demands leather free from Amazon deforestation
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 3:55 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace staged a fashion show with Italian top models in Piazza Maggiore, while the city plays host to one of the world's largest leather industry fairs, Linea Pelle, to expose the continued link of Amazon rainforest destruction to leather. More >>
Oil protest skipper in court the same day as Rena crew
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 12:37 pm | Greenpeace
The skipper of the te Whānau-ā-Apanui-owned fishing boat the San Pietro, which took part in the Stop Deep Sea Oil Flotilla earlier this year, appeared in the same court in Tauranga this morning as the Rena’s Captain and Second Officer, who have ... More >>
Deep sea oil protest skipper due in Tauranga court
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 4:12 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The skipper of the te Whānau-ā-Apanui fishing boat San Pietro, is scheduled to appear at the District Court in Tauranga at 10am tomorrow (19th October), on charges relating to a protest off the East Cape against deep sea oil drilling in April this ... More >>
Greenpeace activists confront deep sea oil exploration ship
Monday, 17 October 2011, 11:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Monday 17th October, 2011. This morning Greenpeace activists held a legal protest outside Port Taranaki against a ship that is due to depart imminently to start exploring for deep sea oil – the new frontier of oil development off New ... More >>
Greenpeace launches a new Rainbow Warrior
Saturday, 15 October 2011, 12:47 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam - Berne-Motzen, 14th October 2011 -- At a ceremony in Berne-Motzen, Germany, Greenpeace today launched the third version of its protest vessel the Rainbow Warrior. Purpose built as a campaigning vessel, the Rainbow Warrior carries state-of-the-art ... More >>
Greenpeace volunteer team assists Rena clean up operation
Saturday, 15 October 2011, 10:03 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 15th October 2011. A team of volunteers organised by Greenpeace New Zealand will today begin work cleaning toxic fuel oil off beaches in the Bay of Plenty. More >>
Greenpeace welcomes Goff’s awaited insight on deep sea oil
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 4:13 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today welcomed Labour leader Phil Goff’s acknowledgement that there is a direct link between the Rena oil spill, and plans to open New Zealand up to deep sea oil exploration. More >>
Rena Spill: PM John Key is not fooling anyone
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 9:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
PM John Key is not fooling anyone that Rena spill and deep sea oil risks are not related More >>
Greenpeace statement on Rena oil spill
Friday, 7 October 2011, 4:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 7th October, 2011. Greenpeace today expressed extreme concern about the ongoing oil spill from the stricken vessel Rena. More >>
Barbie Drops Rainforest Packaging
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 10:43 am | Greenpeace
Toy giant Mattel, the company behind Barbie, announced today that it will stop buying paper and packaging linked to rainforest destruction following a global campaign by Greenpeace. More >>
Commission rules against dirty tar sands fuel
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 4:16 pm | Greenpeace
Reacting to the news that the European Commission is proposing a de facto ban on imports of dirty fuels extracted from tar sands, Greenpeace EU transport policy adviser Franziska Achterberg said: “Today’s move by the Commission is good news. Tar ... More >>
Attempt to undo Pacific conservation measures at tuna summit
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 1:32 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace has expressed its disappointment with the major fishing nations active in the Western and Central Pacific, the world’s largest tuna fishing ground, for their attempts to unravel current conservation and management measures of the region’s ... More >>
Greenpeace On Cairn Energy's Failure to Find Arctic Oil
Monday, 3 October 2011, 9:27 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 28th September 2011 --Reacting to the news that Cairn Energy’s oil drilling has once again come up dry off Greenland’s Arctic coast (1), Greenpeace Campaigner Ben Ayliff said: More >>
Greenpeace to legally challenge deep sea oil permits
Monday, 19 September 2011, 11:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 19 September 2011: Greenpeace and te Whānau-ā-Apanui today filed a judicial review challenging the Government’s decision to issue Brazilian oil giant Petrobras a permit for deep sea oil exploration off the East Cape. More >>
Second Biggest Arctic Sea Ice Thaw Since Records Began
Friday, 16 September 2011, 5:11 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 16 September 2011: This summer’s Arctic sea ice melt has been confirmed overnight (NZ time) as having been the second largest in recorded history, following 2007’s record melt (1). More >>
Second biggest Arctic sea ice thaw since records began
Friday, 16 September 2011, 1:13 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
This summer’s Arctic sea ice melt has been confirmed overnight (NZ time) as having been the second largest in recorded history, following 2007’s record melt. More >>
Greenpeace call for marine reserves to protect Pacific tuna
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 11:18 am | Greenpeace
Activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza today called for Pacific Ocean marine reserves to help protect tuna stocks by protesting alongside and aboard a Taiwanese tuna boat fishing in international waters between French Polynesia and the Cook Islands. More >>
