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New Zealand’s electricity watchdog gives green light to kill solar electricity
New Zealand’s electricity watchdog is not fit for purpose and is working with big energy companies to destroy the future of rooftop solar power in New Zealand, according to Greenpeace NZ.
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Environment Commissioner sends ‘please explain’ note to Government
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has sent a ‘please explain’ note to the Government over its woeful record on climate change, rivers and oceans.
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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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Genesis about to face the climate fight of 2016 following revelations it will keep coal burning at Huntly
This morning it’s been revealed that Genesis Energy will be keeping the coal burners on at New Zealand’s last coal-fired power station until at least 2022, despite promising to turn them off by 2018.
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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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NZ’s climate plan slammed as “a sham” as Paula Bennett prepares to sign Paris agreement
Questions about the National Government’s fitness to lead on climate issues are being raised as Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett prepares to sign the Paris climate agreement on behalf of New Zealand tomorrow.
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Organised crime scandal shows NZ’s climate policy is a “total bloody waste of time”
On the back of a report released this morning that shows the NZ Government has allowed businesses to buy fraudulent carbon credits from Russia and Ukraine, Greenpeace New Zealand has called for the linchpin of New Zealand’s climate policy to be thrown out.
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Huntly must close in wake of world’s largest coal company filing for bankruptcy
The pressure is mounting for New Zealand’s last coal fired power-plant, Huntly, to close its two remaining coal units in the wake of news that the world’s largest private sector coal company has just filed for bankruptcy.
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Oil Block Offer a ‘Desperate, Last-Ditch Bid by the Government to Try and Save Failing Oil Plans’
Responding to today’s oil block offer announcement by Simon Bridges, Greenpeace’s senior climate campaigner Simon Boxer said:
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Hundreds descend on Central Auckland to blockade NZ’s largest oil event
More than 200 people are descending on New Zealand’s largest oil industry conference at dawn this morning and blocking its entrances as part of a Greenpeace-organised demonstration of peaceful civil disobedience.
