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Cut the cows – a double whammy for the environment
It’s often said that domestic opinion doesn’t count for much in this country. Watch though, as heads turn and lattes spill when that same opinion comes from across the water. It’s our endearing lack of self confidence and charming inferiority complex at work. Kiwi artists and musicians will struggle for years for domestic recognition but…
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Is Nick Smith Minister for Magic?
It seems the critical issue of clean swimmable water for New Zealanders has passed into the realms of magical realism. Minister for Magic, Nick Smith waved his blue wand and wadeable rivers miraculously turned into ones you can swim in.
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Swimmable rivers: Greenpeace says look below the surface.
Greenpeace is encouraging voters to look below the surface of the Government’s new announcement on swimmable rivers.
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Blooming dangerous in Canterbury
Tired of being told your dogs might die if you take them down to the river? Greenpeace is warning there’ll be lots more toxic algal blooms afflicting South Canterbury rivers if a controversial irrigation scheme to expand dairying goes ahead.
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Irrigation attack – Greenpeace says public frustration about dirty rivers spilling over
Greenpeace says a $40,000 attack on a farmer’s irrigation machinery could be a sign of overwhelming public frustration about polluted rivers.
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Greenpeace warns more algal blooms to come with planned Hurunui irrigation dams
Greenpeace warns that the toxic algal bloom and public health warning currently present on the Hurunui River will only become more frequent if the Hurunui Irrigation dams go ahead.
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Greenpeace calls on the Dairy Industry to come clean about its plans for expansion
Despite widespread public concern over New Zealand's polluted rivers and lakes, the dairy industry plans to push the national dairy herd to record numbers.
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Greenpeace response to Dairy NZ Advertising Standards Authority Complaint
Following a complaint by Dairy NZ to the Advertising Standards Authority about a Greenpeace TV ad, Greenpeace provided the ASA with this 13 page file of scientific evidence pointing to nitrate and pathogen pollution of our waterways as a result of industrial dairying.
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Thumbs up for controversial Greenpeace TV ad
The Dairy Industry has failed in its attempts to shut down a hard-hitting TV ad by Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace calls out meaningless moratorium
Greenpeace is calling out the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council on a so-called moratorium on the Ruataniwha dam.
