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Taiwan’s fisheries plagued by human rights abuses and shark finning – Greenpeace investigation
A year-long Greenpeace East Asia investigation into Taiwan’s distant water tuna fisheries has exposed Illegal shark finning, labour and human rights abuses, as well as Taiwan’s failure to adequately address issues such as murder and drug smuggling at sea.
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Huntly must close in wake of world’s largest coal company filing for bankruptcy
The pressure is mounting for New Zealand’s last coal fired power-plant, Huntly, to close its two remaining coal units in the wake of news that the world’s largest private sector coal company has just filed for bankruptcy.
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Government Should Pull Plug on Billion Dollar Dam, Say Greenpeace
The government should pull the plug on the controversial Ruataniwha irrigation scheme in Hawke’s Bay, as costs look set to soar towards the billion dollar mark, Greenpeace says today.
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New International Executive Directors take the helm at Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 4 April 2016 - Bunny McDiarmid and Jennifer Morgan have officially taken up their new roles today, sharing leadership of the global environmental organisation.
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Tax on solar and batteries shocks industry, green and consumer groups
A group of organisations today expressed shock at the fact that a New Zealand energy company is introducing a tax of up to 26% on solar power and batteries from today, April 1.
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Whiskas Clearly Unable to Deny Cat Food Linked to Slavery
The owner of international pet food giant Whiskas have admitted that questions over their links to modern-day slavery are ‘very worrying’.
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10 Reasons to ditch coal at Huntly
New Zealand’s last remaining coal fired power station, Huntly, was due to be shut in 2018. But after colluding with other power companies in closed-door meetings, Huntly’s owner, Genesis Energy, is reconsidering those plans. We say that’s a well bad idea: Genesis must get rid of this coal-belching dinosaur and #ShutHuntlyCoal. Update: Genesis has announced…
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Hundreds descend on Central Auckland to blockade NZ’s largest oil event
More than 200 people are descending on New Zealand’s largest oil industry conference at dawn this morning and blocking its entrances as part of a Greenpeace-organised demonstration of peaceful civil disobedience.
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Oil Block Offer a ‘Desperate, Last-Ditch Bid by the Government to Try and Save Failing Oil Plans’
Responding to today’s oil block offer announcement by Simon Bridges, Greenpeace’s senior climate campaigner Simon Boxer said:
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US environmental kingpin Bill McKibben throws his weight behind civil disobedience in NZ
World-leading environmentalist Bill McKibben is today urging New Zealanders to take part in peaceful civil disobedience to overthrow “radicalism”.
