Posts by Nick Young
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Another leaked MPI report reveals industrial scale underreporting of fish
Greenpeace is renewing its call for a full and independent inquiry into New Zealand’s Fisheries Management System after releasing yet another leaked internal Government report, this time showing industrial scale…
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NZ investigators expose slavery and human trafficking at sea
Investigators from New Zealand are behind a global operation that has exposed shocking incidents of human trafficking, slavery and abuse at sea aboard international fishing fleets. Over the past two…
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2011 Compliance Risk Profile of the West Coast/East Coast South Island Hoki Fisheries
The leaked ‘2011 Compliance Risk Profile of the West Coast/East Coast South Island Hoki Fisheries’ report was produced by the compliance division of the Ministry of Fisheries in 2012, and…
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Beware false solutions to plastic bag crisis
Greenpeace is warning that NZ retailers’ enthusiasm to find replacements for single-use plastic bags may result in worse outcomes for the environment. Countdown and New World have begun removing conventional…
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Budget 2018: Greenpeace asks why Govt is to spend $800m subsidising agricultural pollution
This Coalition Government has made a number of good decisions for the environment recently but it is set to continue to spend over $800 million a year subsidising greenhouse gas pollution from the agriculture sector by not bringing agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme.
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Greenpeace exposes dairy incursion into Mackenzie country
Greenpeace has released drone video footage revealing a major dairy incursion into wilderness country in the Mackenzie. The shots show the beginnings of a pipeline to take water out of…
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More than half of NZers say too many cows – Greenpeace poll
A Horizon opinion poll commissioned by Greenpeace reveals that 52 percent of Kiwis think are too many cows for our waterways to cope with. David Parker has gone on record…
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5 reasons why a floating nuclear power plant in the Arctic is a terrible idea
This enormous monstrosity is the world’s first purpose-built floating nuclear power plant. It’s now bound for the Arctic. The “Akademik Lomonosov” – the world’s first purpose-built floating nuclear power plant…
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7 Things You Need to Know About ETP’s Lawsuit Against Greenpeace
Learn how an abusive lawsuit is part of a dangerous trend of companies trying to silence dissent. Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) – the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline –…
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Creating the World Park Antarctica
How a few pioneers went to one of the most remote regions on Earth just to get a seat at the bargaining table of Antarctic Treaty Nations, then proceeded to…