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New German GMO Liability Law Carries Lessons to NZ
Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 7:33 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
Germany's approach to setting new GMO liability law provides an important example for New Zealand, states a paper released today by the Sustainability Council. More >>
New Forms of GMOs Highlight Biosecurity Loophole
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 10:17 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
Threats posed by new forms of GMOs under development represent a fundamental challenge to New Zealand’s approach to biosecurity labelling requirements. More >>
MFE Provides Approvals for Toxic Substances
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 8:47 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
The Ministry for the Environment (MFE) has engineered what is essentially a one-way gate for existing toxic substances – free entry for all and huge barriers to removing any single one from legal use, no matter what adverse effects later emerge. More >>
MFE: "Back Door"Approvals for Toxic Substances
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 12:41 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
The Ministry for the Environment (MFE) has engineered what is essentially a one-way gate for existing toxic substances - free entry for all and huge barriers to removing any single one from legal use, no matter what adverse effects later emerge. More >>
Strong Support for Zero GM Contamination Tolerance
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 5:01 pm | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
79% New Zealanders would support the current policy of zero tolerance to GM contamination of seed imports. Polling conducted for the Sustainability Council by DigiPoll also found 77% support for zero tolerance to GM contamination of crops in the field, once ... More >>
75% Support NZ Remaining a GM Free Food Producer
Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 10:56 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
Three quarters of New Zealanders would support the nation's food production remaining GM Free. More >>
Foreign Affair's Stance Provokes Laughter
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 4:29 pm | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
New Zealand negotiators at a conference on liability for GMOs have effectively proposed that the four year programme to develop an international liability regime should aim at agreeing no liability rules at all. More >>
NZ Stance on GM Liability Provokes Laughter
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 9:23 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
New Zealand negotiators at a conference on liability for GMOs have effectively proposed that the four year programme to develop an international liability regime should aim at agreeing no liability rules at all. More >>
Innocent Property Owners to Pay for Contamination
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 12:06 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
The Ministry for the Environment (MFE) is paving the way for property owners to be forced to pay for the cleanup of contamination that they did not know about when they purchased their land. This contamination was often legal at the time it occurred, ... More >>
Leaving GM Contaminated Crops in the Ground
Wednesday, 20 October 2004, 3:26 pm | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
The recommendation by a Parliamentary select committee that GM contaminated crops be allowed to remain in the ground goes against market realities. Exporters cannot sell contaminated products to buyers that have no tolerance for GM, and the market ... More >>
Sustainability Council Update May 04
Thursday, 3 June 2004, 4:51 pm | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
During a fortnight in which GM matters were again in the headlines, the Sustainability Council ’s acting Chair, Professor Garth Cooper, formally opened its new Wellington offices last Thursday. More >>
Cradle to Grave Subsidies for GMO Development
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 8:32 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
Government has approved new blanket subsidies for GM developers that complete the cradle to the grave state assistance programme for GMOs, said Sustainability Council Executive Director Simon Terry. More >>
Report on GM Economics Ignores Consumer Rejection
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 10:11 pm | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
A report projecting huge economic losses for Australia and New Zealand if GM crops are not adopted leaves out of its modelling the widespread consumer rejection of GM food, said Sustainability Council Executive Director Simon Terry. More >>
Anderton’s Stance Shows Importance of GM Restraint
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 11:33 pm | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
The Progressive Coalition’s decision to vote against the NOOM Bill demonstrates the importance of legal restraints on the growing of GM food said Sustainability Council Executive Director Simon Terry. The Progressives sought a change to include ... More >>
Canadians Contradict Government Assurances on GM
Tuesday, 7 October 2003, 9:00 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
Government assurances that export markets will not be affected by GM plantings in New Zealand are contradicted by a previously secret paper from a country that Government cites as proof of its claims. More >>
Financial Fitness Requirement for GM Release
Monday, 29 September 2003, 4:43 pm | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
Developers applying to release GM organisms will face fewer compulsory checks on their financial fitness than a bank would make on someone looking for a mortgage on their home, said Sustainability Council Executive Director Simon Terry. More >>
Export Markets Sensitive to Trace GM Contamination
Monday, 7 July 2003, 9:20 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
If even a pizza maker in Japan is "routinely testing" for GM content, this is the clearest demonstration of how sensitive New Zealand’s premium export markets are to GM contamination said Sustainability Council Executive Director Simon ... More >>
NZ Turns Against Biggest Trading Partner
Wednesday, 14 May 2003, 5:20 pm | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
"Why is New Zealand joining a fight that pits us against our biggest trading partner over products we do not even grow" asked Sustainability Council Chair, Sir Peter Elworthy. More >>
Legislation to allow GM release set for tomorrow
Monday, 28 April 2003, 6:06 pm | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
"Less than a fortnight after it issued a report showing how any release of an agricultural GMO could seriously damage export incomes, Government is pressing ahead without protection for New Zealand's GM Free food production status. The report ... More >>
Key coexistence questions remain unanswered
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 12:05 am | Sustainability Council of New Zealand
“Government has yet to answer the question whether New Zealand farms will be contaminated if agricultural GMOs are released on a commercial scale”, said the Chairman of the Sustainability Council, Sir Peter Elworthy. More >>
