Press release

After three days of barricading the OMV offices in New Plymouth through wind and driving rain, climate protesters have left the Austrian oil company a parting gift. They’ve installed a…

Protestors from around the country have wrapped up a three day, 60 hour occupation of the OMV headquarters in New Plymouth the way they started – dancing. Choreographed by School…

A ‘Climate Uprising’ blockade of Austrian oil driller OMV’s Taranaki headquarters has now held strong for 36 hours

It’s been a challenging night on the barricades for the climate protestors blocking entrances to OMV – New Zealand’s last major offshore oil exploration company. The rain came in, high…

Climate protesters are eight hours into a planned 72 hour blockade of the OMV building in New Plymouth. More activists are arriving from around the country, and organisers say they’re…

Around a hundred climate protesters led by Greenpeace have formed a human barricade around the offices of OMV

Hundreds of climate protesters are expected to descend on New Plymouth

A group of people who have been occupying Austrian oil giant OMV’s support vessel in the Port of Timaru are now racing north to New Plymouth – the destination of…

After 50 hours occupying OMV’s oil and gas exploration ‘henchboat’ in Timaru to prevent it leaving port, the last 10 protestors are now being forcibly removed by police. The occupation…

Dozens of people from seasoned activists to first timers, grandparents and academics, are continuing to occupy the support vessel for Austrian oil giant OMV. The occupation in the Port of…