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Taking the deep sea oil battle to the high court
I was in court yesterday with the Greenpeace lawyers and will be again today. But rather than defending ourselves after taking direct action as we so often are, this time…
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Deep sea oil still a thousand times worse
We made a mistake. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld in part a complaint against Greenpeace New Zealand for our oiled-penguin advert which ran on TV3 and Prime TV in recent months.
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Changing Tuna
The global tuna industry is undergoing a period of rapid transformation.
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We can enjoy a good life without extreme oil – we have to
Oil plays a crucial part in our everyday lives, as has been pointed out many since Lucy Lawless committed the selfless and very brave act of climbing the derrick…
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Top 10 reasons why Arctic oil drilling is a really stupid idea
Shell would have us believe that it’s all very safe and there’s nothing to worry about but here’s our 10 reasons Arctic oil drilling is a really bad idea: It’s…
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Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace activists arrested for drillship occupation
The occupation of an Arctic-bound Shell drillship by six Greenpeace activists including actor Lucy Lawless ended this morning after police climbed the ship’s drilling tower and arrested the group. The…
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Lucy Lawless occupies Arctic drilling ship in Taranaki
At 7am this morning actor Lucy Lawless joined Greenpeace New Zealand activists in stopping a Shell-contracted drillship from departing the port of Taranaki for the remote Arctic, where its exploratory…
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Eat it up Monsanto!
There’s a story doing the rounds again, about how Monsanto, one of the world’s largest profiteers of genetically engineered (GE) food, banned GE food from its own corporate canteens! Monsanto…
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Enthusiasm for oil requires cognitive shut-down
Recently some commentators have revealed something about the way their brain functions in singing the praises of new fossil fuels.
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Out of our depth: deep-sea oil exploration in New Zealand
The inability of the authorities to cope with the effects of the recent oil spill from the Rena cargo ship, despite the best efforts of Maritime New Zealand, has brought into sharp focus the environmental risks involved in the Government’s decision to open up vast swathes of the country’s coastal waters for deep-sea oil drilling.
