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Misery at sea: human suffering in Taiwan’s distant water fishing fleets
This report makes for shocking and harrowing reading. Its findings should concern everyone connected to the seafood industry – from consumers, to workers and vessel operators, and those who manage…
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2011 Compliance Risk Profile of the West Coast/East Coast South Island Hoki Fisheries
The leaked ‘2011 Compliance Risk Profile of the West Coast/East Coast South Island Hoki Fisheries’ report was produced by the compliance division of the Ministry of Fisheries in 2012, and…
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Independent inquiry needed after shocking leaked fishing report
Greenpeace is calling for a full and independent inquiry into New Zealand’s Fisheries Management System after releasing a leaked internal Government report showing “shocking” levels of malfeasance in the hoki…
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Beware false solutions to plastic bag crisis
Greenpeace is warning that NZ retailers’ enthusiasm to find replacements for single-use plastic bags may result in worse outcomes for the environment. Countdown and New World have begun removing conventional…
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Budget 2018: Greenpeace asks why Govt is to spend $800m subsidising agricultural pollution
This Coalition Government has made a number of good decisions for the environment recently but it is set to continue to spend over $800 million a year subsidising greenhouse gas pollution from the agriculture sector by not bringing agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme.
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Greenpeace exposes dairy incursion into Mackenzie country
Greenpeace has released drone video footage revealing a major dairy incursion into wilderness country in the Mackenzie. The shots show the beginnings of a pipeline to take water out of…
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More than half of NZers say too many cows – Greenpeace poll
A Horizon opinion poll commissioned by Greenpeace reveals that 52 percent of Kiwis think are too many cows for our waterways to cope with. David Parker has gone on record…
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5 reasons why a floating nuclear power plant in the Arctic is a terrible idea
This enormous monstrosity is the world’s first purpose-built floating nuclear power plant. It’s now bound for the Arctic. The “Akademik Lomonosov” – the world’s first purpose-built floating nuclear power plant…
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Greenpeace oil campaign: seven years in the wilderness
A photograph popped up on my Facebook feed recently, saying - “seven years ago today”. It was a shot of the crew from the Oil Free Seas flotilla being welcomed onto Kauaetangohia Marae at the isolated tip of the East Cape, where the rising sun first strikes our islands through the pure sea air. The…
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Busting the oil industry’s alternative facts about NZ’s offshore oil and gas exploration ban
After Jacinda’s historic announcement that brought an end to new offshore oil and gas exploration, we’ve been hearing a lot from the industry about how the sky is about to fall in. Fun fact: it isn’t. But just in case you find yourself having a heated debate with someone around the dinner table, we’ve put…
