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Silencing environmental voices with Budget 2024 – more motivation for protest
Greenpeace is slamming the Government for slashing funding for government environmental agencies and initiatives in Budget 2024.
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Luxon’s Govt destroying right to safe drinking water, swimmable rivers
Greenpeace Aotearoa is condemning the Luxon Government’s latest resource management amendment bill as the next attack in the war on nature, this time targeting freshwater.
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Rangiora nitrate contamination test results update
Greenpeace Aotearoa is advising that it has found an anomaly in one water sample result from a drinking water testing event that it ran recently in Rangiora. While testing on the day found this sample to have high levels of nitrate contamination, further testing revealed that it did not.
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NZ environment watchdog condemns Govt’s property rights approach to environmental protection
Greenpeace Aotearoa says that it’s clear the Government’s approach to environmental policies is actively harming nature after the release of the Going With the Grain report today by the Parliamentary…
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Offshore wind industry warns against Taranaki seabed mining
A damning briefing paper released by a group of offshore wind developers warns that if Trans Tasman Resources gets the go-ahead to mine the seabed of the South Taranaki Bight,…
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Protest march against fast-track Bill announced for Auckland, June 8
A coalition of environmental groups has announced a ‘March for Nature’ on June 8 down Queen Street in Auckland to protest the Fast-Track Approvals Bill and the coalition government’s War on Nature.
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Ottawa plastic treaty talks end in weak compromise
The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC4) for a Global Plastics Treaty ended on a disappointing note as the negotiation caved-in to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry
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Greenpeace ramps up pressure on UN delegates to cut plastic production, by delivering a “Global Plastics Factory”
OTTAWA —As a new day of negotiations begins at the fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) in Ottawa, Greenpeace Canada delivered a 20-foot “Global Plastics Factory” to the doorstep of the Shaw Center
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Greenpeace letter to Te Whatu Ora, ECan, calls for response to high nitrate in Canterbury drinking water
In a letter sent to Te Whatu Ora, Environment Canterbury, district councils, and Minister for Health Dr Shane Reti, Greenpeace has conveyed “deep concern” over nitrate levels in drinking water.
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Government repeal of Te Mana o Te Wai condemning rural communities to unsafe drinking water
Greenpeace Aotearoa is slamming the Government’s announcement today that it plans to remove intensive winter grazing rules and Te Mana o Te Wai in the next Resource Management Act amendment…
