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Fertiliser companies to blame for cancer deaths from nitrate-contaminated water
Greenpeace is redoubling its call on the Ardern government to phase out synthetic nitrogen fertiliser following the publication of a scientific study showing nitrate contamination of drinking water could cause up to 100 cases of bowel cancer and 40 deaths from the disease in New Zealand every year.
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Oil companies are ploughing money into fossil-fuelled plastics production at a record rate – new research
Visiting a modern petrochemical plant makes you feel incredibly small. Enormous compressors roar incessantly, distillation columns tower high above your head, large pipelines full of oil and gas criss-cross the…
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Never underestimate the power of showing up
For those of you who cannot bear to read another story about the senseless destruction of te taiao, stick with me, this story has a happy ending.
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Offsets taskforce hit by protest at COP26
An event to promote carbon offsetting at COP26 was today hit by multiple protests. The Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets, backed by fossil fuel companies like Shell and BP, held a promotional event in the conference centre in Glasgow, attended by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney. The taskforce is seeking to radically…
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COP methane pledge is more talk and no action for Ardern Government
The New Zealand Government has signed up to a new international methane pledge at the COP26 climate talks currently underway in Glasgow, but Greenpeace is unimpressed.
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NZ’s government plans to switch to a circular economy to cut waste and emissions, but it’s going around in the wrong circles
The New Zealand government is currently developing plans to address two crises — climate change and waste — and to embrace a circular economy. But it has no clear path for how to do this. The resulting muddle is watering down the potential of a circular economy to bring lasting change.
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Submission on the Kapuni Green Hydrogen Fast-Track Application
This is the joint submission of Greenpeace Aotearoa, the Environmental Defence Society and Forest & Bird (the organisations) on the application by Hiringa Energy Limited and Ballance Agri-Nutrients Limited for…
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Youth activists sailing to COP26 onboard the Rainbow Warrior ignore warnings from port authorities
Youth strikers from impacted communities onboard the iconic ship demand world leaders ‘stop failing’.
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Greenpeace to provide free mail-in nitrate water testing
Greenpeace Aotearoa has launched a new mail-in service to test people’s drinking water for nitrate contamination.
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New Zealand’s Government wimps out on climate action again with dodgy NDC
Greenpeace is giving the Government’s new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) climate targets announced today a frosty reception.
