All articles by Niamh O'Flynn
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Greenpeace welcomes commitment to revoke seabed mining licence, calls for permanent ban
Greenpeace Aotearoa is applauding the Green Party’s commitment to revoke any Fast-track consents, licences, or permits issued for coal, seabed, and hardrock gold mining projects, describing it as a crucial…
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Oral Submission: Greenpeace Aotearoa on the Summary Offences (Demonstrations Near Residential Premises) Amendment Bill
Tēnā koutou katoa,My name is Niamh O’Flynn, and I’m speaking on behalf of Greenpeace Aotearoa. I’m sure some of what I have to say, you’ve heard from others today, but…
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Greenpeace activists convicted and discharged over seabed mining action
Four ocean advocates have been sentenced in court in Wellington today, after locking down the Wellington headquarters of the mining industry lobbying firm Straterra (since renamed the New Zealand Minerals…
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Greenpeace corrects Federated Farmers’ impotent attack
In response to the “desperate bid” by Federated Farmers to curtail Greenpeace, the environmental heavyweight has issued a correction to the agri-industry lobby group’s “scurrilous complaint” made to the Charities…
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Gene Technology Bill Submission
In the early 2000s, the GE Free NZ movement successfully fended off the release of Genetically Engineered organisms into our food and the environment. We insisted on a precautionary approach…
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Appointment of former Fonterra director on ‘independent’ methane review panel highlights panel’s real purpose
Greenpeace Aotearoa says the appointment of former Fonterra director Nicola Shadbolt to the Government’s so-called ‘independent’ methane review panel highlights that the panel’s true purpose is to delay climate action.