The campaign for better water quality is continuing to gather support, with organisations representing half a million members and supporters now backing the recently launched Freshwater Rescue Plan.
Greenpeace is in no way anti-farming. Far fromit. We want New Zealand to be farming into the future and passing on trulysustainable, healthy farms to future generations.
The Ruataniwha irrigation scheme looks doomed, and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council should ditch it at tomorrow’s (Wednesday) council meeting, says Greenpeace today.
Tired of being told your dogs might die if you take them down to the river? Greenpeace is warning there’ll be lots more toxic algal blooms afflicting South Canterbury rivers if a controversial irrigation scheme to expand dairying goes ahead.
Greenpeace says it’s time the Government woke up to its own advice on freshwater and stopped making matters worse.
Greenpeace New Zealand’s Executive Director, Dr Russel Norman, has blasted Stephen Joyce’s first Budget for “actively funding” pollution.
Greenpeace says the Dairy Industry’s new “action plan” on climate change is completely lacking in any form of serious action.
The United Nations has turned a few Kiwi’ farmers into international role models for their efforts to combat water pollution and climate change by farming in a new way.
An investment company is demanding the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council hand over $80 million of ratepayer money for a controversial and polluting dam, prior to formal checks and balances being completed.
New Zealand taxpayers are again being forced to prop up the Hurunui irrigation dams and will get dirty rivers and increasing rural debt in return, Greenpeace said today.
Our future access to fresh water has been brought into question by a report, published this morning, which explores how New Zealand will be affected by climate change.
Greenpeace is warning of possible backdoor taxpayer funding for big irrigation schemes.
Just some of the positive environmental changes that Greenpeace has directly helped to bring about since we began campaigning in 1971.
Greenpeace has uplifted the site office of the proposed Ruataniwha Dam and delivered it to the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council offices in Napier.
Greenpeace is erecting anti-Ruataniwha billboards around Hawke’s Bay this morning, two weeks out from the close of voting in regional council elections.
This Greenpeace report examines the potential connections between livestock farming, water pollution and public health.
Climate change is already being felt in New Zealand.
Greenpeace is calling out the new labour-led government for muddying the waters on its promise to end state funding of irrigation and clean up rivers.
Industrial dairying has failed. Take your pick of victim - our rivers, climate, farmers, reputation - they’ve all taken a battering.
Greenpeace is not and never has been “anti-farming”. In fact we see working with the land to produce food to feed people as one of the best professions around.
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