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Government’s ‘absence of a backbone’ destroying New Zealand’s rivers
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to end public subsidies to think-big irrigation schemes that will create new intensive dairy farms and more freshwater pollution.
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DairyNZ undermining environmental efforts of dairy farmers across NZ
Greenpeace is calling on DairyNZ and other dairy leadership to stop undermining the efforts of dairy farmers to clean up waterways.
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Dairy bosses plot their own demise
You've got to feel sorry for the dairy leadership. Well you do. They're in mourning. Grief is the only way to explain the strange and conflicting messages coming out of DairyNZ and the Federated Farmers over the last six months. Could have been the demise of John Clarke or Murray Ball. More likely to be…
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Havelock contamination scandal not a one off
Greenpeace is warning of more Havelock North’s if New Zealand doesn't start managing the intersection between industrial agriculture and water.
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Nothing new in Ruataniwha review – irrigation dam still a bad idea
The review of the Ruataniwha irrigation dam confirms Greenpeace New Zealand’s view that the dam will pollute local rivers, heighten the risk of further water contamination and is a huge economic gamble.
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Greenpeace accuses Government of aggravating water crisis
Greenpeace says it’s time the Government woke up to its own advice on freshwater and stopped making matters worse.
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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.
