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Peace flotilla pressures Govt to put new sanctions law to work
As Parliament debates a new law to enable the New Zealand Government to impose sanctions over the war in Ukraine, a peace flotilla is preparing to sail north to make…
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Greenpeace to join Peace Flotilla to Russian oligarch’s Helena Bay property
Greenpeace Aotearoa is throwing its support behind a peace flotilla planned to converge on Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov’s luxury coastal retreat in Helena Bay, Northland later this week.
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Ukraine: Greenpeace calls for freeze on Russian oligarch assets
Greenpeace Aotearoa’s executive director Russel Norman says the organisation “condemns the Russian government’s cruel invasion of Ukraine and calls on President Putin to withdraw his forces and cease military operations.”
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A decade since the Fukushima disaster
I still remember when the news broke about a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre in 2001 and the visuals of the giant waves hitting Indonesia and Thailand’s coast in 2004. Another shocking tragedy that affected so many of us was the tsunami hitting the nuclear power station on Fukushima’s coast. The images from…
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Nuclear weapons are illegal at last
Nuclear arms are the most destructive, indiscriminate and monstrous weapons ever produced – but today, we can all celebrate a major milestone in the long march towards peace: the Treaty…
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Chernobyl still burns
Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, the fourth reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. 34 years later, Chernobyl radioactivity is still circulating.
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Greenpeace condemns Japanese government panel’s draft proposal to discharge radioactive water
Tokyo, Japan – A Japanese governmental subcommittee today submitted its three-part, calamitously drafted proposal for managing more than one million tonnes of radioactive water resulting from the TEPCO (Tokyo Electric…
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‘Cattenom Nine’: Activists face jail for sounding the alarm bell on nuclear safety
In the early hours of 12 October 2017, eight people sneaked inside the grounds of the Cattenom nuclear plant in northern France. Without much difficulty, they reached the foot of a spent fuel…
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15 Things You Didn’t Know About Chernobyl
Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, four reactors exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine. It caused what the United Nations has called “the greatest environmental disaster…
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From Hiroshima to now, can nuclear ever be peaceful?
On 6 August 1945, the United States military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was 8:15 in the morning, and the city was just about to start its day.…