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Too many holes in dam scheme
Dodgy Ruataniwha Dam will destroy rivers and indebt farmers. The Ruataniwha dam is one of the largest irrigation schemes planned in New Zealand. If it goes ahead it will create more industrial dairy farms and pollute the rivers in the Hawkes Bay. And despite overwhelming evidence that industrial dairying is not only destroying rivers but…
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Greenpeace launches legal challenge against controversial $1b dam plan
Greenpeace NZ is launching a legal challenge against a controversial plan to build a dam that’s set to cost close to $1 billion and will pollute a region’s rivers.
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Greenpeace joins Amazon People in community-led battle to save their land
Greenpeace has joined forces with an Indigenous Amazonian community in an unofficial demarcation of their land, deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
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Councillor’s conflict of interest over controversial $1b dam exposed
It’s been revealed that a Hawke’s Bay Regional councillor could stand to make money if the Council approves a controversial and polluting dam that’s set to cost close to $1 billion.
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Government must end industrial dairying subsidies in light of damning greenhouse gas report
Auckland, 21 May 2016: The latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory shows New Zealand's emissions are at their highest level since 1990 and have increased 23% in 24 years.
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Greenpeace Response to MPI’s Multi-Million Dollar Hand-Out for Irrigation Scheme
Responding to news today that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) will hand over millions of dollars to a controversial Canterbury industrial irrigation scheme, Genevieve Toop, Greenpeace’s agriculture campaigner, said:
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Six Tonnes of Dairy Sewage Used to Blockade Capital City ACC Office
Greenpeace have used six tonnes of dairy sewage to blockade ACC’s multi-storey building in the middle of Wellington.
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Why piss is the problem with industrial dairying in New Zealand
It’s pretty obvious that letting cows wander into waterways, collapsing stream banks and defecating in the water is not good for our rivers. But the most serious freshwater health issue facing NZ’s waterways still involves cows but is much less obvious and there’s no amount of fencing or streamside planting that can deal with it.
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Regenerative farming – farming for the future
Industrial dairying is failing. It’s failing people who want to swim in clean rivers, its failing our tourism industry, it’s failing our climate, and it’s failing farmers. The good news is that there are alternative ways to produce food that are not only better for our rivers, and the environment, but also good for farmers'…
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Doomed Ruataniwha Scheme Should be Ditched by Council Tomorrow
The Ruataniwha irrigation scheme looks doomed, and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council should ditch it at tomorrow’s (Wednesday) council meeting, says Greenpeace today.
