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“Dropping like flies”: Anadarko the latest company to cull search for oil in NZ
Texan oil giant Anadarko is the latest to join the growing list of companies to scale back or completely quit their search for oil in New Zealand.
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ASA rejects challenge to Greenpeace’s solar tax campaign
Tuesday, December 6: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a complaint about Greenpeace’s use of the word “tax” to describe an extra charge for solar power has no grounds to proceed.
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“Burning our future”: Genesis’ plan to burn dirty fuels at Huntly for next 20 years revealed
Genesis Energy has been granted consents to replace Huntly Power Station’s coal-fired Rankine units at any time it likes for the next 20 years.
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NZ taxpayers forced to fund dirty rivers, again
New Zealand taxpayers are again being forced to prop up the Hurunui irrigation dams and will get dirty rivers and increasing rural debt in return, Greenpeace said today.
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World’s biggest oil survey ship flouts safety law in NZ waters during 7.8 earthquake
Upon its arrival in New Zealand waters, the world’s largest seismic surveying ship turned off transmission from its mandatory AIS safety device, including throughout the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit early on Monday morning and the subsequent tsunami threat.
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Goff’s new Auckland Council takes first vote on oil drilling
A recent change in the balance of power at the Auckland Council could see a vote against the Government’s offshore oil plans succeed today, where it has previously narrowly failed.
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Auckland Council passes historic vote to oppose deep sea oil drilling
Auckland Council has just voted to oppose the Government’s offshore oil agenda in New Zealand, for the first time ever.
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New Zealand’s promise “dead in the water” as Paris Climate Agreement comes into force
Greenpeace New Zealand is calling for a summer of action to highlight what it’s calling the Government’s “sham plan” to meet the Paris Climate Change Agreement, which came into force today.
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Greenpeace teams up with scientists to search for Māui dolphin
Greenpeace New Zealand has teamed up with researchers at the University of Auckland in an effort to discover more about the critically endangered Māui dolphin, including where they go in winter.
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Victory! World’s largest marine protected area established off Antarctica!
Today, the largest marine protected area in the world was created in the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica. This is a HUGE victory for the whales, penguins, and toothfish that live there and for the millions of people standing up to protect our oceans.
