All articles by Russel Norman
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Fast Track Bill, already mired in corruption scandal, should be pulled
Greenpeace says that National MP David MacLeod being referred to the police for undeclared donations has corrupted the process for examining the Fast Track Bill and the bill must be dumped.
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Silencing environmental voices with Budget 2024 – more motivation for protest
Greenpeace is slamming the Government for slashing funding for government environmental agencies and initiatives in Budget 2024.
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Luxon’s War on Nature explained
The New Zealand government’s war on nature has been ramping up. A raft of policies attacking environmental protection are being released by the new Luxon/Peters/Seymour Government.
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Russell Coutts signs up to the war on nature with SailGP threat to Hector’s dolphin
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but SailGP is just a boat race. Yes it is exciting as the foils slice through the water at up to 100km/h,…
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Standing for Te Tiriti o Waitangi
It was a privilege to be there with Greenpeace Aotearoa to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
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Huge win for the climate in Smith v Fonterra Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court has today ruled in favour of Northland iwi leader Mike Smith’s (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) climate case continuing to trial. The case is against Fonterra and six other…
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Climate Extremists billboard calls out Luxon, Peters and Seymour over oil exploration threat
Greenpeace has put a billboard up near Parliament in Wellington depicting Christopher Luxon, Winston Peters and David Seymour as climate extremists.
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UN Loss and Damage fund doomed without fossil fuel phase-out
As a new climate loss and damage fund is operationalised at the COP28 UN climate conference, Greenpeace condemns the New Zealand Government’s decision to bring back oil and gas exploration.
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A call for peace
Greenpeace Aotearoa staff and volunteers have carried this banner in one of the many demonstrations taking place around the country - calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Palestine.
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Climate lessons from six years of the New Zealand Government 2017-23
After six years we can definitively say that the Government’s failure to cut agribusiness climate pollution shows that seeking consensus with polluters does not work, but campaigning from the outside…