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Twelve people have been arrested following a peaceful protest<\/a> at the Simons Pass dairy conversion in the Mackenzie Country. Among those arrested was an 88 year old South Island man.<\/p>\n

45 Greenpeace activists arrived at the site before dawn today, some locking themselves onto diggers and trucks while others deployed a giant 80 by 25 metres banner reading, “Stop Dairy Expansion”.<\/p>\n

The activists locked themselves to construction machinery being used to excavate tussock land for an irrigation pipeline to serve the Simons Pass mega-dairy conversion. Construction was stopped for nine hours.<\/p>\n

Greenpeace sustainable agriculture campaigner, Gen Toop, says “the iconic and fragile area is no place for cows.”<\/p>\n

“For the sake of the fragile Mackenzie and our rivers, industrial dairy expansion has to stop. A line is being crossed here in the Mackenzie. If this precious and unique area can be converted into an industrial dairy operation, nothing is safe,” she says.<\/p>\n

“These twelve brave New Zealanders took a stand today on behalf of all of us who want to save our rivers, land, and climate from industrial dairy expansion.”<\/p>\n

Greenpeace is calling on the Government to strengthen regulations around freshwater and agricultural pollution, and ban new dairy expansions. Over 30,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Government to do so.<\/p>\n

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