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Protests outside Australian Consulates over bushfires
As the devastating bushfires continue to burn across Australia, Australian Consulates in Auckland and Wellington are being met by protestors demanding more pressure be put on Australian Prime Minister Scott…
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Christopher Luxon’s wreckless promise to restart oil and gas exploration could mean catastrophic oil spills
Jacinda Ardern’s April 2018 ban on new oil exploration permits put New Zealand's vast EEZ off limits to new oil and gas exploration, except for a few areas where permits were released before the ban.
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OMV oil drilling consent deeply hypocritical following Madrid climate summit
Greenpeace has slammed the Government for granting a controversial oil and gas drilling consent just days after championing New Zealand’s climate leadership at a global summit in Madrid. The Environmental…
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Adaptive ideas in the era of the Anthropocene
To survive the twin climate and ecological crisis, our ideas must evolve - we need to embrace ideas that allow us to adapt to the world as we collectively have made it, and we desperately need to jettison some maladaptive ideas that are locking us into a climate and biodiversity disaster.
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Greenpeace installs oil museum at OMV
After three days of barricading the OMV offices in New Plymouth through wind and driving rain, climate protesters have left the Austrian oil company a parting gift. They’ve installed a…
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Greenpeace protestors hit by weather in testing night on OMV barricades
It’s been a challenging night on the barricades for the climate protestors blocking entrances to OMV – New Zealand’s last major offshore oil exploration company. The rain came in, high…
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Greenpeace calls on OMV to leave NZ as blockade continues
Climate protesters are eight hours into a planned 72 hour blockade of the OMV building in New Plymouth. More activists are arriving from around the country, and organisers say they’re…
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Climate protesters shut down New Plymouth oil giant
Around a hundred climate protesters led by Greenpeace have formed a human barricade around the offices of OMV
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Hundreds to descend on OMV in New Plymouth for climate protest
Hundreds of climate protesters are expected to descend on New Plymouth
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Police move in to end Greenpeace oil ship occupation
After 50 hours occupying OMV’s oil and gas exploration ‘henchboat’ in Timaru to prevent it leaving port, the last 10 protestors are now being forcibly removed by police. The occupation…
