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Making Oil History: Solar for Everyone
I’m writing to you from on board The Rainbow Warrior. Yesterday, we sailed into Auckland, crossing the beautiful Hauraki Gulf and past Rangitoto, before being welcomed with a pōwhiri from Ngāti Whātua on Princes Wharf.
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A plan to Solarise New Zealand
A plan to install solar and batteries in half a million homes over the next ten years When the Government decided to call time on offshore oil and gas exploration,…
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Seize the Sun – A discussion paper on New Zealand’s clean energy future
This discussion paper explores New Zealand’s current energy climate, the problems with our power sector, and the steps the Labour-led coalition needs to take over the next two years to…
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Greenpeace launches plan to solarise half a million NZ homes
Greenpeace has unveiled a plan that would see half a million New Zealand homes solarised over the next 10 years with money currently being used to subsidise the oil and…
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Making Oil History tour launches in Matauri Bay
This bay in the north is the final resting place of the original Rainbow Warrior, the ship that was bombed in 1985 by French Secret Service in retaliation for New Zealand's campaign for a nuclear-free Pacific.
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Don McGlashan to welcome Rainbow Warrior with Anchor Me
The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior will be welcomed into Auckland tomorrow by musician Don McGlashan singing his Kiwi classic, Anchor Me. The ship has just arrived in the country for…
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Rainbow Warrior tour of NZ begins at site of bombed predecessor
The New Zealand tour of the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, will begin with a tribute at the spot its predecessor was sunk after the 1985 bombing that shocked the world.…
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Making oil history, one sunrise at a time
While the Rainbow Warrior arrives in New Zealand to celebrate the end of oil, we at Greenpeace HQ in Auckland have been forging ahead with the transition to clean energy. Fifty new solar panels have been added to our existing rooftop array, powering up our campaign for a safe climate using clean, homegrown electricity.
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Our oceans’ last chance: a historic opportunity
This is so exciting! For the next two weeks, there will be negotiations on a Global Ocean Treaty at the UN. It’s such a historic opportunity, scientists are calling it…
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Massive court decision overturns Canadian Trans Mountain pipeline project approval
(Vancouver) – In response to today’s Federal Court of Appeal ruling related to the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline, Greenpeace Canada spokesperson Mike Hudema said: “This is a massive victory for…
