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News & Stories - Page 5 of 28

  • Nitrate contamination water testing in Darfield, Canterbury
    Press release
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    ECAN fails to provide free drinking water testing for communities impacted by nitrate contamination

    An Environment Canterbury vote to NOT provide free community water testing for nitrate contamination has shocked Greenpeace Aotearoa.

    Rhiannon Mackie
    13 February 2025
  • Greenpeace Aotearoa Submission to the Board of Inquiry on GCSL’s resource consent applications to build and operate a waste-to-energy incinerator in Te Awamutu
    Publication
    Climate Change Freshwater Plastics

    Greenpeace Aotearoa Submission on GCSL’s resource consent applications to build and operate a waste-to-energy incinerator in Te Awamutu

    This is a submission by Greenpeace Aotearoa on the publicly notified application by Global Contracting Solutions Limited (GCL) to establish and operate a waste-to-energy incineration power station in Te Awamutu.

    Greenpeace Aotearoa
    29 January 2025
  • Story
    Freshwater Politics

    Milking it: how the intensive dairy industry rewrote freshwater rules in their favour

    Shocking new evidence exposes how the intensive dairy industry lobbied MPs to rewrite freshwater rules in their favour.

    Will Appelbe
    23 January 2025
    5 min read
  • Press release
    Freshwater Seabed Mining Fast Track

    Greenpeace says Fast Track Law will continue to be resisted

    Greenpeace is warning that the Fast Track Approvals bill will continue to be resisted when it becomes law after passing its third reading in parliament yesterday. 

    Juressa Lee
    18 December 2024
  • Press release
    Freshwater Health

    Waimate drinking water disaster highlights need to end dairy pollution

    Greenpeace says high nitrate levels a red flag for Cantabrians, as 'do not drink' notice issued for Waimate.

    Will Appelbe
    2 December 2024
  • Press release
    Freshwater Health Fast Track

    Rural school drinking water threatened by fast-track

    A Government report revealed many rural schools have elevated levels of nitrate, e.coli, and arsenic in drinking water. Greenpeace says the fast-track will make that worse.

    Will Appelbe
    20 November 2024
  • Piece of paper with water samples
    Press release
    Freshwater Health

    Drinking water at 100 rural schools contaminated with cancer-causing nitrate

    Greenpeace says it is deeply concerned about levels of nitrate in rural school drinking water, as a shocking new report has revealed that rural children are twice as likely as…

    Will Appelbe
    14 November 2024
  • Videos
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Luxon removes local council’s power to protect freshwater

    Freshwater protections are under threat under the Luxon government!

    Sinéad O'Flynn
    6 November 2024
  • Story
    Food&Farming Freshwater Fast Track

    The Ruataniwha Dam: what is it, and why has it been renamed to the Tukituki Water Storage Scheme?

    The Ruataniwha Dam could come back from the dead - but what is the Ruataniwha Dam, and why is it such an environmental catastrophe?

    Gen Toop
    30 October 2024
    5 min read
  • Story
    Food&Farming Freshwater

    Greenpeace opposition to the Hawke’s Bay Water Trust

    The Central Hawke’s Bay District Council proposal to establish a trust to hold the consents for the Ruataniwha dam – renamed the Tukituki Water Storage Scheme – is of grave concern.

    Will Appelbe
    25 October 2024
    1 min read
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