mastodon 4.7.2Greenpeace is an independent, global environmental campaigning organisation. Our mission is to ensure Earth’s ability to nurture life in all its diversity. Through creative confrontation and non-violent direct action, we take on the big issues and seek to bring about systemic change.
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1/7 BREAKING: A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay them US$ 345 million.
This is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest. A thread ⤵️🧵
We asked politicians to drink nitrate-contaminated water from rural kitchen taps. 90% of them said no.
While rural communities face increased health risks as a result of nitrate contamination, politicians are failing to act.
It's time for the nitrate limit for drinking water to be lowered in line with current health science.
Sign the petition now: https://greenpeace.nz/nonitrates #nzpol
Chris Bishop is weakening freshwater rules to allow corporations to pollute without consequences. Meanwhile, the Hutt River - in his own electorate - is so polluted with toxic algae that it's unsafe for swimming.
Maybe Chris should focus on cleaning up his own backyard, instead of enabling freshwater pollution in other parts of the country.
Today Greenpeace activists called on Environment Southland to declare a nitrate emergency, after a report revealed that 15,000 Southlanders could be exposed to unsafe nitrate in drinking water.
The alarm bells are ringing, and it's time for action.
Join us in calling for safe drinking water for all - sign the petition now: https://action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/agriculture-nitrate-limits-drinking-water #nzpol
The Luxon Government is choosing roads over people and oil over our future. Making public transport free is the fastest way to slash emissions, ease the cost-of-living crisis, and stop our dependency on expensive, dirty fuels.
Sign the petition calling on Christopher Luxon to make public transport free - NOW!
#FreePublicTransport #FossilFuelFree
https://greenpeace.nz/6rdmzq
THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Fonterra just admitted that it broke the law with misleading claims on its Anchor Butter packaging.
While it claimed to be '100% New Zealand Grass-fed', in reality a Fonterra dairy cow can eat up to 3 kilograms of palm kernel linked to rainforest destruction. Every. Single. Day.
Sign the petition and call on Fonterra to end all palm kernel use on its farms: https://greenpeace.nz/e9nh05 #nzpol
As the Iran attacks show, fossil fuel dependence and waging war in a region responsible for more fossil fuel production than any other is inherently expensive and dangerous.
#climatecrisis #cleanenergy
https://greenpeace.nz/nwnta7
Murky indeed . The Fisheries Amendment Bill a.k.a "the ocean exploitation bill" should be rejected. We need real ocean protection - like banning bottom trawling from where it does the most harm.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/590971/fisheries-bill-enters-murky-waters
A spike in the price of LNG because of the conflict in Iran highlights how risky the Luxon government's plan is to import LNG as a back-up.
#climatecrisis #cleanenergy
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/588438/conflict-in-iran-shows-risk-of-government-s-plan-to-import-lng-as-back-up-to-taranaki-facility
Attacks on ships spark renewed concern of environmental disaster as 85 large oil tankers lie trapped in Persian Gulf.
"A single oil spill could have devastating consequences for people and ecology in the region, adding to the terrible human toll this illegal war has already taken"
#US #Israel #Iran
https://greenpeace.nz/5ko5nd
Instead of spending a billion plus dollars on a LNG terminal and locking NZ into using more climate-cooking fossil fuels, the government should be investing in renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
#climatecrisis
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/26/four-alternatives-to-imported-lng-to-fix-nzs-energy-crisis/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Not only will New Zealanders have to pay a gas tax for the government's planned LNG terminal, but they're being warned that it could raise energy prices and carbon emissions.
#climatecrisis #cleanenergy
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/25/lng-plan-worst-of-both-worlds-environment-watchdog-warns/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The Fisheries Amendment Bill is 'rotten to the core' - the small back down today from the government is not the end. We think this bill needs to be voted down - and not pass it's first reading in parliament.
When Christopher Luxon told Tova O’Brien on Breakfast this morning, “My job is the CEO,” it wasn’t just a slip of the tongue. It was a window into how he thinks leadership works and cuts right to the heart of the problem we’re seeing in New Zealand’s environmental and social politics today.
#nzpol #climatecrisis
https://greenpeace.nz/ztbjty
4/4 The government needs to stop its obsession with fossil fuels and invest in cheap plentiful renewable energy like solar and wind energy. Tell the Government: People over profits. Now. ✊
This damning Environment Southland report paints a very clear picture. Southland has a drinking water crisis on its hands, caused by dairy industry pollution - and it's putting the health of rural families at risk.
Read more 👇
https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/nitrate-%E2%80%98news-not-good%E2%80%99-southland
Orange roughy are amazing. Test your knowledge here! This deep sea fish can live to be up to 200 years old. But bottom trawling is wiping out roughy numbers and habitat. That's why we're backing roughy for Fish of the Year. Votes close this weekend!!!
PRESS RELEASE
As petrol prices climb to around $3 a litre, Greenpeace is pointing to a series of Government decisions that have left Kiwis hit harder by the oil price spike.
#nzpol #climatecrisis #cleanenergy
https://greenpeace.nz/e0vphx
Building a LNG terminal doesn't stack up full stop. The war on Iran is severely disrupting gas supplies and puts New Zealanders at the mercy of acute shortages, spiking power bills. We have all the wind, sun and renewable energy potential we need right here.
#cleanenergy #climatecrisis
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/prime-minister-christopher-luxon-joins-newstalk-zbs-mike-hosking-as-nation-awaits-fuel-supply-update/42MHAN34RNGRXMUGRUHWOSQ23A/
3/4 They are choosing to leave us at the mercy of a heating planet. We need an immediate, total pivot to clean, renewable energy. No more excuses.
Our hearts are with the communities across Northland and the Far North currently reeling from yet another climate disaster. While families are being evacuated from their homes, the Luxon Government is still focused on fossil fuels. 🧵
2/4 They’ve slashed renewable investment and are doubling down on a billion-dollar LNG facility. These extreme weather events are the result of a government that prioritises fossil fuel profits over our safety.
Rising oil prices in the wake of the strikes on Iran by the US and Israel show why quitting oil now is more important than ever.
#cleanenergy #peace
https://greenpeace.nz/025sor
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This is not over!
All Greenpeace entities involved will appeal this ruling in the US.
And Greenpeace International is already taking Energy Transfer to court in the Netherlands under the EU’s anti-SLAPP directive
3/7 Energy Transfer has pursued this intimidation lawsuit because Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International dared to show solidarity with Indigenous environmental defenders who oppose the climate-wrecking Dakota Access Pipeline.
PRESS RELEASE:
The Luxon Government needs to implement actual solutions to the energy crisis, not just short-term band aids.
#nzpol #climatecrisis #cleanenergy
https://greenpeace.nz/re3lov
4/7 US$ 345 million.
That’s what Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US have been ordered to pay.
It’s the biggest damage award ever imposed on Greenpeace organisations. It’s meant to shut the movement up.
2/7 This case was never about justice. It was about silencing protest and crushing solidarity.
5/7
Let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.
Across the world, those who speak out are facing corporate intimidation – all so billionaires and corporations can keep getting richer while the planet burns.
7/7 We will keep resisting billionaires, corporate bullies and polluters.
It’s #TimeToResist
Add your name >> https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/stop-corporate-intimidation/
The United States and Israeli Governments' military attack on Iran is a clear breach of international law and the UN Charter. The New Zealand Government has refused to condemn the attack. Sign the petition and tell Luxon to stand up for international law and against the Trump regime’s reckless wars.
#iran #fossilfuels #peace
https://greenpeace.nz/m9kzpp
