China clean air plan a blow to Australian mega-mines
The Chinese government's plan to improve air quality in the Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong regions will significantly slow China’s coal consumption growth and deflate coal prices globally even...
View ArticleWhen does no mean no? Government should resist pressure to lift super trawler...
Wednesday 18 September 2013: Greenpeace and Environment Tasmania today welcomed Senator Richard Colbeck’s proposal to conduct new surveys of the Australian small pelagic fishery, but cautioned him...
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Greenpeace International responds to President Putin’s remarks regarding...
Sydney, September 26, 2013 - According to media reports (1), Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that the 30 Greenpeace International activists detained by Russian authorities after an Arctic...
View ArticleARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS SCALING SHARD IN ARCTIC PROTEST
Thursday 11th July 2013: A group of artists and activists has evaded security guards at the base of the Shard and is now climbing up the outside of Western Europe’s tallest sky-scraper. If the six...
View ArticleGreenpeace to protest at Russian embassy, Canberra
Greenpeace supporters will gather today outside the Russian Embassy on Canberra. They will call for the immediate release of 30 activists detained in prison for 2 months pending charges of...
View ArticleGreenpeace International to appeal Russian court rulings as activists face...
Amsterdam/Sydney, 27 September 2013 — Greenpeace International condemned a series of Russian court rulings today which left dozens of activists in custody pending investigations into a peaceful Arctic...
View ArticlePalm oil giant Wilmar caught in forest scandal - Greenpeace
Sydney, Jakarta, 22 October, 2013 - Household brands that source palm oil through Singapore-based palm oil trader Wilmar International, such as the makers of Oreo biscuits, Gillette shaving products...
View ArticleGreenpeace responds to hooliganism charge
Sydney/Amsterdam, October 24 2013: Commenting on reports that piracy charges against the Arctic 30 are to be dropped and replaced with a charge of hooliganism, Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia...
View ArticleLetter to Sydney from Greenpeace worker in Russian jail
Sydney, 27 October 2013: Australian permanent resident 27 year old Alexandra Harris, employed by Greenpeace Australia and now detained in Russia, has written her first letter to her manager in Sydney....
View ArticleEU voices concern for Arctic 30 detainees, formal charges of hooliganism laid
Sydney/Amsterdam, 25 October 2013 – Russian authorities yesterday formally charged a Greenpeace International activist with hooliganism, a crime that carries a maximum seven year jail term and has been...
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Greenpeace: Tasmanian Colin Russell formally charged with hooliganism in Russia
Sydney, 29 October 2013. Yesterday in Murmansk, Russia, 58 year old Tasmanian Colin Russell was formally charged with hooliganism. New pictures released by Greenpeace show him led by balaclava-clad...
View ArticleTasmanian Colin Russell’s wife pleads for Foreign Minister to visit Russia
Greenpeace has called on the Abbott government to express concern directly to President Vladimir Putin about the fate of an Australian Greenpeace activist facing years in jail in Russia for a protest...
View ArticleGreenpeace "Arctic30" being moved to St Petersburg, Piracy charges not withdrawn
Sydney/Amsterdam, 2 November: Greenpeace International understands from diplomatic sources that the thirty men and women detained by Russia following a peaceful protest against an Arctic oil platform...
View ArticleApproval of Galilee mega mine leaves Reef strategy in tatters
Sydney 3rd November 2013: Last Friday evening, the same day Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, launched the government’s draft Strategic Assessment of the Great Barrier Reef, the same Minister...
View ArticleTassie Greenpeace worker writes of life in Russian detention
Sydney: 3 November 2013 - The first personal letters from 59 year old Tasmanian Colin Russell from Tasmania to his wife Christine Russell and daughter Madeleine in Woodbridge have been publicly...
View ArticleMaules Creek = Risky Business for Whitehaven Shareholders
Monday 4th November 2013, Sydney. Members of the public will gather outside Whitehaven’s Annual General Meeting in Sydney this morning to highlight the enormous risks associated with investing in this...
View ArticleGreenpeace International statement in response to the International Tribunal...
Sydney/Hamburg, 7 November 2013 – Following a hearing at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) yesterday, where the Netherlands brought a case seeking the release of the Greenpeace...
View ArticlePremier Newman’s “special treatment” of mining mates must end
Premier Newman announced today that Queensland tax payers would be subsidising Gina Rhinehart, Clive Palmer and two of India’s richest families.Today Premier Newman announced that his government will...
View ArticleNew letter: Greenpeace's Alex Harris writes of life in Mumansk
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has released a new letter from Australian permanent resident 27 year old Alexandra Harris, employed by Greenpeace and now detained in Russia, written to her manager in...
View ArticleGreenpeace International releases new footage of Arctic Sunrise boarding
Sydney/Amsterdam, 9 November 2013 – Greenpeace International today released previously unseen footage taken during the boarding and seizure of the ship Arctic Sunrise by armed Russian security officers...
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