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After community consultation the Waikato Regional Council decided to ban bottom trawling along parts of the Coromandel coast. Now fishing industry lobby group Seafood NZ is going to appeal that decision.

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Industry opposition to bottom trawling ban “outrageous”
News that fishing industry lobby group Seafood New Zealand will actively oppose a ground breaking, community-supported plan to ban bottom trawling along the Coromandel Coast shows how out-of-touch it…
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November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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PRESS RELEASE:
The new Regulatory Standards Act creates an unprecedented expectation that the Crown compensates corporations if environmental or public interest laws impact their property rights.
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Winston Peters and NZ First hand victory to ACT over corporate Bill of Rights
Despite ACT failing to pass three earlier versions of the Regulatory Standards bill, they have succeeded passing it into law today, due to the backing of NZ First and the National Party.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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The Government is proposing changes to the Fast Track Act that would make it even more dangerous and undemocratic. Make a submission against this escalation to show this Government that New Zealanders will not accept this assault on our environment.
#FastTrack #ClimateChange
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Fast-Track Amendment Bill submission guide
The Government wants to change the Fast Track Act to make it even more dangerous and undemocratic. Take a stand and make a submission.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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We're bringing our free nitrate contamination water testing programme to communities in Southland and Canterbury next week!

Simply bring 200mls of your drinking water in a clean container and we'll test it for nitrate contamination while you wait.

More information: greenpeace.nz/nitrate-info
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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The Luxon Government has backed down on its poisonous plan to allow 100-times more glyphosate residues on the grains that feed us every day.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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PRESS RELEASE
The Fast-Track Amendment Bill which passed its first reading in parliament today is a savage escalation of the Luxon Government’s war on nature.
#nzpol
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Fast-Track Amendment Bill a Savage Escalation in Government’s War on Nature
The Fast-Track Amendment Bill passed its first reading in parliament today, prompting fierce condemnation from Greenpeace.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Leave the seabed alone. There's too much at stake.

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Not enough known about seafloor to begin mining, Cook Islands government scientist says
There is still not enough known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start in the Cook Islands, government scientist says.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Fonterra have just shown that they view New Zealand as a giant milk powder factory, making low value products to be shipped overseas and used in KitKats.

Share this video to tell Fonterra that New Zealanders are fed up with them milking us dry and selling us out.

#nzpol #politics #climate
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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PRESS RELEASE: Fonterra milking us dry and selling us out www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #fonterra
Fonterra milking us dry and selling us out - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Fonterra doesn’t care about New Zealand. That’s Greenpeace Aotearoa’s message following the confirmation of sale of Fonterra’s consumer brands.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Greenpeace welcomes a decision by New Zealand Food Safety to maintain maximum glyphosate residue levels on wheat, oats and barley at their current level of 0.1mg/kg, but now calls on NZFS to restart its glyphosate testing programme.
#Food&Farming
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Greenpeace welcomes glyphosate ruling, urges NZ Food Safety to restart food safety testing
Greenpeace welcomes a decision by New Zealand Food Safety to maintain maximum glyphosate residue levels on wheat, oats and barley at their current level of 0.1mg/kg.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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PRESS RELEASE: In wake of Gore nitrate concerns, Greenpeace announces free drinking water nitrate testing in Southland, Canterbury www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #southland #canterbury
In wake of Gore nitrate concerns, Greenpeace announces free drinking water nitrate testing in Southland, Canterbury - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace will be running free nitrate testing in drinking water in Gore, Waimate, and Darfield in November.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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The Cook Islands are on the frontlines of deep sea mining, an emerging industry that could cause enormous harm to the ocean and people’s way of life

Indigenous Peoples are leading the fight against miners, safeguarding ancestral territories for generations to come.
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Ocean protectors confront US funded ship in the Cook Islands
The Cook Islands are on the frontlines of deep sea mining, an emerging industry that could cause enormous harm to the ocean and people’s way of life. Despite strong local opposition, the Cook Island…
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October 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Digging deeper to make your power bill steeper - the Luxon Government and the power companies are in it together, and guess who’s footing the bill?
Four men hold hands against a backdrop of oil drills, burning hillsides and dead animals.
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Wannabe seabed mining company Trans-Tasman Resources tries to repackage the same bad science and feed it up to the Fast Track expert panel as something new.
#BanSeabedMining #Oceans
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A fast-tracked farce: Trans-Tasman Resources still hasn’t learned to listen
If you’ve ever wondered what corporate arrogance looks like, spend a day at Trans-Tasman Resources’ (TTR) fast-track application conference*. I did. It was my first out-of-office in my new role…
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October 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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A haunted house but it's just the intensive dairy industry writing the Government's environmental policies.

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Milking it: how the intensive dairy industry rewrote freshwater rules in their favour
Find out the shocking way the NZ dairy industry has lobbied for less freshwater protections
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October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Yesterday Ocean Protectors in the Cook Islands confront a U.S.- funded vessel conducting seabed mining research.
October 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The Luxon government guts New Zealand's once world-leading climate disclosure law.
#ClimateCrisis
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New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage
The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Greenpeace Aotearoa stands in solidarity with striking workers this Thursday. We will be joining the Auckland protest to support workers' calls for safe work conditions and fair pay. Please come and join us!

For other locations around the country, check out: www.psa.org.nz/campaigns/23... #nzpol
October 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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The Hauraki Gulf Protection Act is a significant milestone for ocean protection. It helps restore the mauri, habitats, and living species of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. But the Act contains some big failings too.
#Oceans
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The Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection Act: Turning the Tide for the Marine Park
The passing of the Hauraki Gulf Protection Bill into law this month is a significant milestone for ocean protection.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The New Zealand Government is weakening climate action targets at the request of dairy industry lobbyists like Federated Farmers, Dairy NZ, and Beef + Lamb NZ.
Image credit: Sharon Murdoch/Stuff
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October 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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There's a climate scam going on in downtown Auckland...

At the Fonterra HQ.

Despite being the single biggest climate polluting company in the country, Fonterra isn't paying up for its climate pollution. And to top that off - this Government just cut the methane reduction target.
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The Luxon Government wants to remove GE safeguards and let GMOs free. Greenpeace isn’t the only one who is ringing the alarm bells.
#Food&Farming #Biodiversity #Health
The Gene Tech Bill - Too Risky Even for Fonterra and NZ First
The Luxon Government wants to remove GE safeguards and let GMOs free. Greenpeace isn’t the only one who is ringing the alarm bells.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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The NZ Govt has admitted that new methane targets do not align with goals to keep global warming below 1.5C - a limit set in place to prevent catastrophic climate change. The move breaches both international law and free trade agreements with the EU and the UK.
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Climate minister admits new target may breach global 1.5C goal
Climate Minister Simon Watts admitted the Government's new methane target may not be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C.
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October 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The New Zealand Government's move to weaken methane emissions reduction targets risks our trade relationships, reputation, and puts us all at risk of unmanageable consequences from climate change, argues Professor James Renwick of Victoria University
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A ‘lack of ambition’ over livestock emissions targets | News | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Weakening targets for cutting methane emissions is a major step backwards and raises the risk of unmanageable consequences from climate change, argues James Renwick.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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The Luxon Government is embarrassing NZ again.

Cutting methane emissions now is the emergency handbrake we need to prevent dangerous climate change, but our Govt has let the dairy industry off the hook for its massive methane emissions. More info 👇
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New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets
Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’
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October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM