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Thai fishing fleet moving to Indian ocean to avoid regulation, finds Greenpeace investigation
A 12-month investigation by Greenpeace Southeast Asia has found that Thailand’s overseas fishing fleets are intentionally shifting to remote waters in order to avoid fishing regulations.
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Sanford and Moana take small step to save Māui dolphins – what about Talleys and Govt?
Auckland: Greenpeace welcomes Sanford and Moana’s new commitment to reducing set net fishing in some of the habitat of the critically endangered Māui dolphin - it is a small step in the right direction. But why won’t the other fishing companies and the Government take steps to save Māui dolphins from extinction?
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Government’s oil permit announcement shows broken NZ oil industry
The absence of any offshore oil permits and just a single onshore permit in the just-announced 2016 Block Offer shows that the National Government’s oil agenda is broken, says Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace calls out meaningless moratorium
Greenpeace is calling out the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council on a so-called moratorium on the Ruataniwha dam.
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Greenpeace reconnaissance reveals world’s biggest seismic ship blasting for oil off East Coast
Sunday, December 11: Greenpeace NZ has released aerial footage from a reconnaissance flight of the world’s biggest seismic ship, the Amazon Warrior, blasting for oil 120 nautical miles off the Wairarapa Coast.
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“Dropping like flies”: Anadarko the latest company to cull search for oil in NZ
Texan oil giant Anadarko is the latest to join the growing list of companies to scale back or completely quit their search for oil in New Zealand.
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ASA rejects challenge to Greenpeace’s solar tax campaign
Tuesday, December 6: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a complaint about Greenpeace’s use of the word “tax” to describe an extra charge for solar power has no grounds to proceed.
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“Burning our future”: Genesis’ plan to burn dirty fuels at Huntly for next 20 years revealed
Genesis Energy has been granted consents to replace Huntly Power Station’s coal-fired Rankine units at any time it likes for the next 20 years.
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NZ taxpayers forced to fund dirty rivers, again
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.
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World’s biggest oil survey ship flouts safety law in NZ waters during 7.8 earthquake
Upon its arrival in New Zealand waters, the world’s largest seismic surveying ship turned off transmission from its mandatory AIS safety device, including throughout the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit early on Monday morning and the subsequent tsunami threat.