Police and fire service use the jaws of life in an attempt to cut free a group of Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to the entrance of the Auckland Airport incinerator protesting the emissions of deadly dioxins.

Police and fire service use the jaws of life in an attempt to cut free a group of Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to the entrance of the Auckland Airport incinerator protesting the emissions of deadly dioxins.

AUCKLAND: Greenpeace activists shut down the Auckland Airport incinerator.

AUCKLAND: Greenpeace activists shut down the Auckland Airport incinerator.

AUCKLAND: Greenpeace activists shut down the Auckland Airport incinerator.

AUCKLAND: Greenpeace activists shut down the Auckland Airport incinerator.

A human chain of protesters piled sacks labelled ‘Fonterra palm kernel’ and ‘Fonterra coal’ outside Fonterra’s corporate headquarters today in protest of greenhouse gas emissions caused by the dairy giant’s intensive farming practices.

Greenpeace activists on their second day at their rooftop occupation camp on the Marsden B power station in Ruakaka. They are protesting against Mighty River Power's proposal to convert the plant into a coal fired power station that would pump up...

Greenpeace activist Kate Lowe (left) after her nine day occupation of the Marsden B power station, along with local Northland people present submissions to Northland Regional Council deputy chair Peter Jensen.