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Full Steam Ahead on New Rainbow Warrior
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 8:51 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Five months after start of construction, the finished hull of Greenpeace's new Rainbow Warrior is being transported today from the Maritim Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland to the Fassmer Shipyard in Bremen, Germany. Towage by tug boat of the 340 tonne hull, ... More >>
Fonterra fails to grasp sustainability
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 4:45 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Despite the central billing given to sustainability at this year’s World Dairy Summit, it is clear that to Fonterra this relates to profits and growth, not the future of the planet. More >>
Fonterra urged to just listen at World Dairy
Monday, 8 November 2010, 11:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is urging Fonterra not to ignore the important discussions about the links between sustainability, climate change, and dairying that will be taking place at this week’s World Dairy Summit. More >>
PKE Questions force Fonterra to abandon facebook
Saturday, 30 October 2010, 11:54 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Fonterra has apparently 'pulled the plug' on its Facebook page, rather than answer the questions being submitted to it by members of the public on the company's use of palm kernel expeller (PKE). More >>
NZ seafood retailers lacking sustainable standards
Friday, 29 October 2010, 11:28 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
New Zealand seafood retailers have fallen well behind the world’s major markets when it comes to setting seafood sustainability standards, a Greenpeace report reveals. More >>
Greenpeace reveals ANZ Australia’s dirtiest bank
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 5:08 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has launched a new campaign to illuminate the role of ANZ as the biggest financier of polluting coal power in Australia. More >>
Greenpeace calls for deep sea drilling ban
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 11:07 am | Greenpeace
*Brussels, 13 October 2010* - New deep sea oil operations should be banned as the only sure way of preventing a Deepwater Horizon-like spill in Europe, Greenpeace said in response to today’s shake-up of offshore drilling rules by the European ... More >>
Government intent on pouring crude oil on NZ
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 1:51 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, 7 October 2010 – ‘Oil-smeared’ people walked through central Wellington today to protest Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee’s reckless determination to dig and drill for more dirty fossil fuels while ignoring the impacts on climate ... More >>
Cook Islands Call for Closures to All Tuna Fishing
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 11:32 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Pohnpei, Micronesia, October 6, 2010 – The Cook Islands has tabled its intent for the closure of the eastern high seas pocket (1) to all forms of fishing at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission’s (WCPFC) Technical Committee ... More >>
Proposed no-take area in the Pacific Ocean
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 11:28 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is calling for global support for a Cook Islands plan to close off a large area of international waters (1) to all fishing in order to restore Pacific tuna fisheries, protect biodiversity and eliminate pirate fishing. More >>
UK Govt Slammed For Authorising Drilling
Sunday, 3 October 2010, 12:52 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace condemned a UK government decision made late last night to grant the first consent for deep water oil drilling in UK waters since the Gulf of Mexico oil as bizarre. Greenpeace is preparing to take legal action to prevent further permits. More >>
Greenpeace Swimmers Continue to Stop Oil Drilling
Tuesday, 28 September 2010, 2:07 pm | Greenpeace
For over 30 hours Greenpeace swimmers and campaigners in kayaks have impeded the progress of the giant oil drilling ship the Stena Carron which is destined to begin a dangerous deep water drilling programme in the North Atlantic. More >>
Orange Roughy off the Market in Canada
Monday, 27 September 2010, 4:41 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
None of Canada’s major supermarket chains will be selling orange roughy after leading retailers dropped the species due to sustainability concerns, Greenpeace reports. Last week Canadian retailer Metro announced it would remove a number of seafoods ... More >>
Canadians say ‘no’ to orange roughy
Monday, 27 September 2010, 2:55 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
None of Canada’s major supermarket chains will be selling orange roughy after leading retailers dropped the species due to sustainability concerns, Greenpeace reports. More >>
Fonterra statement backs up Greenpeace claims
Thursday, 23 September 2010, 4:09 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace is condemning dairy giant Fonterra’s weak ‘claim’ that “it believes” its palm kernel animal feed comes from sustainable sources. More >>
Greenpeace protest posed no threat - Director
Thursday, 23 September 2010, 10:46 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace says a box locked into a lift at the Fonterra building during this morning’s protest played a sound recording and posed no threat. More >>
Greenpeace barricades Fonterra HQ
Thursday, 23 September 2010, 10:44 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace activists have barricaded the entrance to Fonterra’s corporate headquarters in Princes St, Auckland. More >>
Greenpeace Barricade Fonterra HQ
Thursday, 23 September 2010, 9:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace activists have barricaded the entrance to Fonterra’s corporate headquarters in Princes St, Auckland. More >>
Fonterra’s implication in rainforest destruction
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 11:37 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 21 September 2010 – Following new evidence, Greenpeace demands that Fonterra and the Government put an end to New Zealand’s importation of palm kernel grown on areas of destroyed rainforest. More >>
Not too late for Govt to embrace clean energy
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 4:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
As the deadline for submissions on Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee’s Draft Energy Strategy draws to a close (at 5pm Thursday), Greenpeace is telling the Government that it is not too late to embrace the global Clean Energy revolution ... More >>
