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.

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has just released the results of shallow water oil spill modelling (1) by Shell Todd Oil for Taranaki on their website.

Auckland 12/10/11: 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.

Auckland 17/8/11: As Shell Oil was announcing its involvement in plans to drill in the deep water of the Great South Basin, off the bottom of the South Island, the 1300-barrel spill from a rig operated by Shell in the North Sea was being labelled...

Auckland, 5/4/12: This month a collection of original prints made from a little blue penguin and a diving petrel killed by the Rena disaster will go on a three-centre tour, going on public display in venues in Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington.

Auckland 15/11/11: Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company that is intending to drill for oil in up to 3100 metres of water off the East Cape, is the part-owner of an oil field northeast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where a serious oil leak has developed.

The Prime Minister’s statement that the Rena oil spill has nothing to do with the threat from deep sea oil exploration is foolish, says Greenpeace New Zealand.