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Giant cancer banner points at fertiliser factory
Early this morning Greenpeace confronted the fertiliser industry with an enormous, 1500 sq metre banner outside the Kapuni fertiliser factory in South Taranaki. The message highlights the link between synthetic…
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Heartache and hope: A tour of South Island dairy farming
The Greenpeace Aotearoa agriculture campaign addresses head-on, New Zealand’s biggest climate polluter: the industrial dairy industry which poisons rivers, contaminates drinking water and blazes the climate.
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NES-Drinking Water and Nitrate Contamination – Greenpeace briefing to Ministers
Greenpeace's briefing to Ministers on NES-Drinking Water and Nitrate Contamination. Healthy water for all.
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ECan “bullshits” about worsening groundwater nitrate
Greenpeace says that “a big part of the problem for Cantabrians concerned about water safety is that the local regulator - Environment Canterbury (ECan) - is still in denial, and misleading the public about how bad the nitrate contamination problem is."
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New research finds dairy industry making Canterbury water “undrinkable”
Newly published research by Mike Joy et al has found that every litre of dairy milk produced in Canterbury requires up to 11,000 litres of water to dilute the pollution from its production.
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State of Environment report buries dairy’s deadly nitrate harm in endnotes
Greenpeace says the latest State of the Environment report acknowledges that industrial dairy is driving environmental breakdown, but seems to have cut mention of the cancer and preterm birth risks…
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Taumata Arowai water proposals “wolf in sheep’s clothing”
A stoush is brewing between Greenpeace and the Government’s new drinking water regulator Taumata Arowai, who is increasing the permissible amounts of 17 toxins.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa submission on Taumata Arowai Proposed Drinking Water Standards
Everyone should have access to clean and safe drinking water. But instead of protecting drinking water, the Government is proposing an increase of highly toxic substances in drinking water. Here is the Greenpeace submission.
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Government proposing increase of highly toxic substances in drinking water
Greenpeace and the Pesticide Action Network today expressed “outrage” that Taumata Arowai is proposing to increase the permissible amount of 17 toxic chemicals, substances and radioactive materials in New Zealand's drinking water.
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Greenpeace calls on Government to halve the dairy herd
Greenpeace Aotearoa has launched a petition calling on the Government to halve the dairy herd, saying that cow numbers are too high for rivers, the climate and people’s health to sustain.
