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  • A billboard shows Christopher Luxon, David Seymour and Winston Peters with the words: Climate Extremists
    Press release
    Climate Change Freshwater Biodiversity

    Australian election a warning shot for Luxon’s Trump-style agenda

    The Australian election result has sent a clear message across the Tasman: voters will not tolerate Trump-style politics that fuel environmental destruction and ignore the climate crisis.

    Gen Toop
    5 May 2025
  • Dairy cows behind bars in a milking shed
    Press release
    Climate Change Freshwater

    Luxon’s war on nature opens gate for more dairy conversion

    Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling out the Luxon Government for “leaving the gate wide open” to more dairy conversion with no plan to protect fresh water from pollution.

    Will Appelbe
    29 April 2025
  • A woman drinks from a glass of water
    Press release
    Freshwater Health

    Greenpeace renews call on Ministry of Health to act on nitrate contamination in drinking water

    Greenpeace Aotearoa has written to Manatū Hauora – Ministry of Health again following testing that revealed high levels of nitrate contamination in Ashburton District drinking water.

    Will Appelbe
    16 April 2025
  • Press release
    Freshwater Health

    Babies at risk due to nitrate-contaminated drinking water in Ashburton District

    Greenpeace Aotearoa is deeply concerned about the safety of drinking water in the Ashburton District due to nitrate contamination.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    14 April 2025
  • A turbulent, muddy river intersecting green fields on either side.
    Press release
    Freshwater Oceans Biodiversity

    New Zealand’s environment report card is alarming

    The Government’s three-yearly environment report card, Our Environment 2025, documents a rapid and alarming decline of nature in Aotearoa.

    Russel Norman
    8 April 2025
  • Rangiora nitrate testing event
    Press release
    Freshwater

    Greenpeace bringing free drinking water nitrate testing to Ashburton District this weekend

    Greenpeace Aotearoa will be offering its free drinking water testing service in Ashburton and Methven this Friday and Sunday. This is the first time the organisation’s water testing programme has…

    Rhiannon Mackie
    2 April 2025
  • Water splashing from a tap onto clasped hands
    Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Greenpeace launches documentary exploring freshwater pollution in Canterbury

    Greenpeace Aotearoa has announced that it will soon release a new documentary that takes an ‘in-depth look into the dirty secret of Canterbury’s freshwater pollution’.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    25 March 2025
  • Aerial view of the Ashburton River North Branch, CC BY-SA 4.0
    Story
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Something in the Water – uncovering Canterbury’s dirty secret

    More information and screening dates for Greenpeace's documentary Something in the Water, covering Canterbury's freshwater pollution crisis.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    25 March 2025
    1 min read
  • Press release
    Freshwater

    Luxon’s investment claims undermined by breaches of free trade agreements

    The Prime Minister's claims to the Infrastructure Investment Summit in Auckland today, that his Government is committed to a rules-based multilateral trading system, are undermined by his Government’s repeated breaches of the environment chapters of recent free trade agreements, says Greenpeace.

    Russel Norman
    13 March 2025
  • Nitrate contamination water testing in Darfield, Canterbury
    Press release
    Freshwater Health

    Greenpeace announces Ashburton, Methven nitrate testing events after ECan fails to vote for free water testing

    Greenpeace Aotearoa is announcing more free drinking water nitrate testing events in Canterbury, after ECan failed to vote on providing free water testing for rural communities.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    10 March 2025
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