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WOMAD’s oil industry sponsors targeted in open letter
Greenpeace has published an open letter calling on the organisers of music festival WOMAD to dump oil industry sponsorship. Todd Energy and Austrian oil giant OMV are on the bill…
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Dear Womad, we love your music, but your oil industry sponsors suck!
One of my favourite things about summer is all the outdoor music festivals. So it really grinds my gears when big polluters go and spoil it all by plastering their…
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Something fishy in the Beehive between Talley’s and NZ First
It’s been revealed that tens of thousands of dollars in undeclared donations have been flowing from Talley’s fishing interests into the New Zealand First Foundation. This is huge. It’s been clear…
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Greenpeace calls on PM to launch review after NZ First fishery donations exposed
Greenpeace is calling on the Prime Minister to launch an external review into Talley’s-related fishing decisions made by this Government, in light of new revelations that tens of thousands of…
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NZ’s rising climate emissions and Jacinda Ardern’s big chance to cut them
When it signed onto the Paris Climate Agreement, New Zealand pledged to increase its net greenhouse gas emissions by 10% by 2030, compared to 2005. The latest NZ Government report…
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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…
