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RMA replacement must protect environmental bottom lines
Whatever replaces the RMA must effectively regulate our most polluting industry - dairying. That means stopping nitrate pollution entering freshwater from milk processing, synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and too many cows.
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33,000 people call for Govt to cut synthetic nitrogen fertiliser
On Parliament’s first sitting day of the year, Greenpeace has today delivered a petition with the names of 33,000 New Zealanders calling for the Government to phase out synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.
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Wairakei Pastoral: The dairy company competing with Auckland for drinking water
One big dairy corporation, owned by millionaire rich-listers, is taking more water from the Waikato River than the entire city of Auckland
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Five facts for Wetlands Day
Whether you know them as bogs, swamps, mires, marshes or fens, wetlands do more for us than we realise. They’re the unsung heroes of our environment, and we’d better take care of them.
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Talley’s & Fonterra: polluting our water
What’s with big companies thinking they can have a free pass to pollute our rivers and oceans?
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Govt must not cave to primary sector pressure on intensive grazing rules
Thursday, 17 December: Greenpeace says the Government must not cave to industry pressure to weaken intensive winter grazing rules designed to protect rivers and climate for the good of all New Zealanders.
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New Govt must phase out synthetic fertiliser: study finds it is driving climate catastrophe
Friday, 9 October: A major new paper, just published in the prestigious science journal Nature, shows that the overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is pushing levels of nitrous oxide –…
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National promises dirty rivers and more fuel for climate fires
Greenpeace is calling the National Party’s newly announced agriculture policy “tantamount to climate denial” and “a promise for more dirty rivers.”
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Intensive winter grazing restrictions must stay, say environmental organisations
The Federated Farmers’ recent backlash to new freshwater regulations is unhelpful to the sector and to society, say New Zealand’s environmental organisations.
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Drinking water from the heavily polluted Waikato river
You’d think supplying 1.6 million people and 40,000 businesses with drinking water during a dry year—and the Covid crisis—would be a priority. But recent documents we uncovered show that Watercare is 113th in the queue for Waikato’s water.
