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Remember the Rainbow Warrior and the Marshall Islands
Today is the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by the French secret service in Auckland’s Marsden Wharf. It is the day we remember our colleague Fernando Pereira who was killed in the attack. He was just 35.
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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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Greenpeace demands end to public subsidies for irrigation after damning report
Greenpeace is demanding an end to public subsidies for large-scale irrigation projects, after a report revealed the Government has thrown millions of dollar at a proposed irrigation project in the Wairarapa that doesn’t stack up financially.
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Govt refusal to rule out fossil fuel expansion undermines new Climate Commission
Greenpeace says the Government’s announcement on the formalisation of a Climate Commission is a positive step, but expanding the fossil fuel industry by issuing new fossil fuel permits would undermine the Commission before it even gets started.
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Fisheries companies win contract to monitor themselves
Auckland, 29 May 2016 - Greenpeace today revealed that the seafood company Sanford, and several other large New Zealand fishing companies, own the entity to which MPI recently awarded a contract to install cameras and to electronically monitor fishing at sea.
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Greenpeace submission on the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (environmental effects – permitted activities) regulations 2013
The Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act it is contrary to New Zealand’s international obligations to protect the marine environment under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, contrary to the precautionary principle which has been accepted by the International Court of Justice and International Tribunal for the Law…
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Help name our new boat
Wow we did it! Together, we’ve bought 'The People's Boat'. Almost 1,000 people chipped in and together we have bought the boat that’s going to confront the Amazon Warrior - AKA 'The Beast.'
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Government’s agriculture research fund pitiful
Responding to the Government’s announcement that it will be setting up a new $400,000 scholarship programme for agricultural greenhouse gas research, Greenpeace sustainable agriculture campaigner, Genevieve Toop, says:
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Greenpeace is a necessity
Greenpeace Executive Director, Dr Russel Norman, says the Charities Board decision not to grant the environmental organisation charity status is unsurprising given that the Board has resolutely opposed Greenpeace’s application all along, in spite of previously losing the battle in the Supreme Court.
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Greenpeace NZ boats tailing world’s biggest seismic blasting ship
Greenpeace New Zealand is on the tail of the biggest seismic surveying ship in the world as it blasts the sea floor in a search for deep sea oil, about 20 nautical miles off the coast of Wairarapa.
