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Rainbow Warrior sailing to NZ to make oil history
Sunday, August 19: The world famous Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior is on its way to New Zealand for a tour of the country to celebrate the Government’s recent oil ban…
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World Photography Day through the lens of Greenpeace
I grew up in photography reading Robert Capa’s words: “If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough”. It’s a simple statement but really profound. Photographers have understood this statement…
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Power prices skyrocket from coal and diesel as sun’s rays go to waste
Power prices have soared over the last few evenings as energy utilities fired up coal, gas and even diesel generators to fill a spike in demand for…
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Govt urged to use regional development fund for just transitions
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to use the Regional Development Fund to back up its promises of a just transition to clean energy.
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11 things political parties should do now if they are serious about climate change
It’s the greatest challenge of our time and also a huge opportunity. Climate change is not merely an ‘environmental’ issue. It’s an existential threat to all aspects of our society and way of life. Acting now is a moral choice we must make as a nation, in order to be part of this global challenge.…
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Time for “diseased” electricity industry overhaul
Greenpeace has called for an overhaul of the electricity industry after a complaint against a tax on solar was quashed in court.
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Battle over solar tax heats up as full hearing announced
An extra charge for solar users, deemed a “tax on solar”, will soon be challenged in a full hearing after an independent authority agreed it needed to be “fully tested”.
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ASA rejects challenge to Greenpeace’s solar tax campaign
Tuesday, December 6: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a complaint about Greenpeace’s use of the word “tax” to describe an extra charge for solar power has no grounds to proceed.
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Tiki Taane and Greenpeace serenade Electricity Authority with 45,000 suns to protest “solar tax”
New Zealand musician Tiki Taane has just taken 45,000 paper suns to New Zealand’s electricity watchdog, each with the name of someone who signed a petition demanding the authority support solar energy and prohibit electricity providers from penalising solar users.
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Three myths the electricity industry wants you to believe about solar
MYTH 1: Solar is only for the richThe most common argument we hear against solar energy is that encouraging it will somehow widen the gap between rich and poor. The logic goes that because “only rich people can afford solar”, the so-called poor people without it will then have to pay a larger share of…
