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An opportunity to support a strong solar and wind electricity generation strategy for New Zealand
Government is now consulting on how to boost clean energy in NZ. It’s not ambitious enough to tackle the climate emergency, but you can have your say now on improving it.
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OMV’s deep sea oil drill fails
South Islanders will be bidding ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Austrian oil and gas giant OMV, which has come up empty handed following a controversial deep sea drill in the Great South…
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NZ Government acts as advocate for fishing industry at international meeting
As a result of the New Zealand government’s lobbying efforts on behalf of the fishing industry, a regional fisheries meeting this week has only made small steps toward increasing protection…
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Greenpeace puts Jacinda in a dirty Canterbury river
Hoardings are going up today in one of the country’s dirtiest rivers – to remind the Prime Minister of the promises she made about New Zealand waterways. Three billboards –…
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OMV shafts itself: Drill pipe accident exposes oil exploration risks
OMV shafts itself: Drill pipe accident exposes oil exploration risks Wednesday, February 5: Reports that Austrian oil giant OMV has accidentally cut through its own drill shaft while exploring for oil…
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Roading announcement undercuts clean transport development
The Government’s plan to spend $5.3 billion on building new roads will slow down the development of clean transport in New Zealand, according to Greenpeace. The environmental organisation’s climate and…
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Shane Jones meats his match
You know how sometimes someone says something so outrageous, so out-of-proportion with what’s actually going on, that you just have to respond? That’s how we felt seeing NZ First MP…
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Protests outside Australian Consulates over bushfires
As the devastating bushfires continue to burn across Australia, Australian Consulates in Auckland and Wellington are being met by protestors demanding more pressure be put on Australian Prime Minister Scott…
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Hollywood stars, Wallace and Gromit creators and Greenpeace team up
Oscar-winners Dame Helen Mirren and Olivia Colman, along with Game of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey and Stranger Things’ David Harbour have teamed up with Greenpeace in a just-released animation about the…
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Christopher Luxon’s wreckless promise to restart oil and gas exploration could mean catastrophic oil spills
Jacinda Ardern’s April 2018 ban on new oil exploration permits put New Zealand's vast EEZ off limits to new oil and gas exploration, except for a few areas where permits were released before the ban.
