All articles by Rhiannon Mackie
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Dirty coal and dirty water: Greenpeace condemns proposed fertiliser factory
Greenpeace is condemning a proposed ‘coal-to-fertiliser’ factory in Southland, saying it will worsen climate change and contaminate drinking water.
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NZ Greenhouse Gas Inventory shows Fonterra and intensive dairy industry fuelling climate chaos
Greenpeace is calling for an end to dairy expansion due to the climate crisis, as a report reveals dairy greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2024.
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Greenpeace challenges MPs to drink nitrate-contaminated water at Parliament
Greenpeace has installed a mobile bar serving nitrate-contaminated water at Parliament, and is calling on MPs to lower the nitrate limit in drinking water.
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Fonterra admits false “100% New Zealand Grass-fed” Anchor Butter claims broke the law
Greenpeace is celebrating a win against greenwash as Fonterra admits that it broke the law with misleading Anchor Butter claims.
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New Zealand and Ireland announce renewed Greenwash Alliance to cover up methane emissions failures – Greenpeace
Greenpeace says a new partnership between Ireland and New Zealand is nothing but a 'Greenwash Alliance' to cover up agricultural methane emissions.
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Greenpeace hold nitrate emergency demonstration outside Environment Southland meeting
Greenpeace demonstrates outside Environment Southland, calling on councillors to declare a nitrate emergency.
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Renewed calls for Govt to lower nitrate contamination limits, following Danish precedent
A Greenpeace open letter calls on the New Zealand government to put public health above industry profits by lowering the drinking water legal limit for nitrate.
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The fertiliser cap – what is it, and why is it important?
The fertiliser cap is one of NZ's few freshwater protections - but what is the fertiliser cap, and why does the government want to ditch it?
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Greenpeace alters Rakaia salmon statue, says ‘Fonterra killed the fish’.
Greenpeace Aotearoa has altered the Rakaia salmon statue in Canterbury, turning it into a cartoon dead fish in protest of dairy industry environmental destruction.
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Looming Government fertiliser cap decision could worsen NZ’s nitrate contamination crisis
Greenpeace warns that a looming Government decision on fertiliser restrictions could result in more nitrate contamination of drinking water.