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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.
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Telling the oil companies the truth
Today, the Greenland Bureau of Mineral and Petroleum invited the world’s biggest oil companies to a meeting that can have extreme importance for the future of the Arctic. Greenland wants…
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The oil is less obvious but the problem is spreading
The sun rose to lesser amounts of oil on the beaches of Tauranga. Even so, its removal was essential because it’s toxic and harmful to a range of wildlife and…
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Rena oil spill could make deep sea oil drilling an election issue
Photo: Gemz Photography Environment Minister Nick Smith has declared that the Rena oil spill off the coast of Tauranga has become the worst maritime environmental disaster in New Zealand’s history.…
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Toxic Rena oil washes ashore
Photo: APN It has now been seven days since the container ship Rena struck and stranded itself on the Astrolabe reef, just off the coast of Tauranga and the situation…
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Rena oil spill 2011 – An unfortunate lesson in the dangers of oil at sea
Photo by APN The Container ship Rena inexplicably crashed into the Astrolabe Reef, about seven kilometres north of Motiti Island, near Tauranga early on Wednesday. It is carrying 1700 tonnes…
