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  • Story
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Environment Canterbury freshwater scorecard – what do your candidates think?

    Curious what Environment Canterbury’s regional council election candidates really think about freshwater protections? We’ve got you covered.

    Will Appelbe
    10 September 2025
    4 min read
  • Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater Health

    Greenpeace to bring Canterbury’s contaminated water to ECan

    Greenpeace is holding a rally outside Environment Canterbury on the council’s final sitting day before elections to call for clean drinking water now.

    Will Appelbe
    8 September 2025
  • Story
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Four things you can do in the local elections to protect Canterbury’s fresh water

    Canterbury’s local elections are a critical moment to defend fresh water! Here are four easy things you can do to protect lakes, rivers, and drinking water.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    26 August 2025
    2 min read
  • Cows in mud in a Southland intensive winter grazing system.
    Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    ECAN study confirms Canterbury nitrate issue escalating – Greenpeace

    Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling on Environment Canterbury (ECan) to put an end to dairy expansion on the plains to protect drinking water.

    Will Appelbe
    15 August 2025
  • Press release
    Freshwater Politics

    RMA rollback lets agribusiness dump pollution into rivers without consent

    A last-minute change to the Resource Management Amendment Bill would make it easier for companies to dump pollution into rivers and lakes.

    Will Appelbe
    13 August 2025
  • Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Government subsidies for dirty dairy dams will lead to polluted drinking water

    Greenpeace is calling on the Government to scrap subsidies for irrigation dams like the Ruataniwha Dam - or risk polluted drinking water.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    31 July 2025
  • In the early morning light, Gore’s brown trout statue with cartoon-style crosses for eyes alongside the ‘Welcome to Gore’ sign, which now reads ‘Welcome to Gore – where dirty dairy wrecked the water’.
    Press release
    Freshwater

    Gore ‘not out of the woods yet’ – nitrate level linked to increased risk of preterm birth

    Greenpeace Aotearoa has tested a sample collected from the Gore town supply, which returned a result above 5 mg/L nitrate (NO3-N), a level associated with an increased risk of preterm…

    Will Appelbe
    24 July 2025
  • Press release
    Freshwater Health

    Gore’s iconic brown trout statue latest victim of township’s drinking water crisis

    Gore’s brown trout statue has become the latest victim of dairy pollution after the township faced dangerous levels of nitrate contamination in drinking water.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    23 July 2025
  • Rangiora nitrate testing event
    Press release
    Freshwater Health

    ‘Only a matter of time’ before a baby is harmed due to nitrate contamination, warns Greenpeace

    News that the Gore water supply exceeded Govt's maximum allowable value of nitrate in drinking water raises concerns over potential harm to infants.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    21 July 2025
  • Story
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Luxon’s freshwater regulation changes are bad news – here’s why.

    The Luxon Government is introducing a raft of freshwater regulation changes to make it easier for intensive dairy to pollute lakes, rivers and drinking water.

    Will Appelbe
    7 July 2025
    4 min read
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