All articles by Rhiannon Mackie
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Fonterra milking us dry and selling us out
Fonterra doesn’t care about New Zealand. That’s Greenpeace Aotearoa’s message following the confirmation of sale of Fonterra’s consumer brands.
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In wake of Gore nitrate concerns, Greenpeace announces free drinking water nitrate testing in Southland, Canterbury
Greenpeace will be running free nitrate testing in drinking water in Gore, Waimate, and Darfield in November.
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Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown
The NZ Government will rewrite NZ's once bipartisan climate change law to weaken methane targets and exclude agriculture from the ETS.
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‘Nitrate emergency starts here’: Greenpeace brings water crisis back to Fonterra’s HQ
Greenpeace has taken rural New Zealand’s nitrate emergency straight to the top, by projecting a modified Fonterra sign reading “The nitrate emergency: It starts here” onto the dairy giant’s Auckland…
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International organisations condemn ‘no additional warming’ approach as NZ methane target decision looms
Nearly 100 organisations have launched an open letter to governments calling for binding targets to cut industrial agricultural emissions.
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$26b in dirty money: Fonterra cashes in after contaminating drinking water
Dirty money: that’s what Greenpeace is calling the $26 billion in revenue brought in by dairy giant Fonterra over the last financial year.
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Greenpeace applauds ECan for declaring nitrate emergency, calls for candidates to pledge real action
Greenpeace is welcoming Environment Canterbury’s decision to declare a nitrate emergency, calling it a long-overdue acknowledgement of a worsening health crisis. But the organisation warns that real action must follow,…
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Cantabrians say “enough”: Nitrate-polluted tap water returned to ECan
Fed-up locals are rallying outside Environment Canterbury this morning, handing back nitrate-contaminated drinking water in protest.
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“Will they protect freshwater?” – Greenpeace reveals Environment Canterbury candidate scorecard
Greenpeace has asked candidates standing for the Environment Canterbury regional council whether they'll protect fresh water. Here are their responses.
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Palm kernel imports skyrocketing as climate crisis worsens
Greenpeace is revealing that new data provided by Stats NZ shows that palm kernel imports for the first six months of 2025 are higher than they have been at any…