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New Zealand’s clean rivers damned by industrial dairying
Industrial dairying is failing. It’s failing people who want to swim in clean rivers, its failing our tourism industry, it’s failing our climate, and it’s failing farmers.
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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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Made in Taiwan: Government Failure and Illegal, Abusive and Criminal Fisheries
Illegality and criminal wrongdoing in Taiwanese fisheries are increasingly well documented. Yet too often these very serious problems are reported and dealt with by Taiwanese authorities as if they were isolated incidents - the responsibility of individual unscrupulous operators, reckless captains or poorly disciplined foreign crews. This approach serves the Taiwanese Fisheries Agency and the…
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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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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:
