Mentions of Greenpeace New Zealand Inc. in New Zealand Parliament debates
Greenpeace New Zealand Inc. has been mentioned in 42 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Trade Marks Amendment Bill, Copyright Amendment Bill (No 2) - Third Readings
Third Readings 8 Sep 2011
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... something is called Cottonsoft and it is sold in a Kiwi supermarket, then, until the work is done by the Green Party, Greenpeace, and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature New Zealand, very few people will realise that that particular brand is not a ...
Freedom Camping Bill
In Committee 16 Aug 2011
GARETH HUGHES ... and our grandkids being able to swim in our rivers. I spent a few years freedom camping. I was a contractor for Greenpeace for a couple of years. I would work for 3 months and then I would freedom camp for a few months, getting to see our ...
Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill
In Committee 3 Aug 2011
LOUISE UPSTON ... fact that students are entitled to have their choice, just like with any other organisation, whether it is a union, Greenpeace, or the Automobile Association. Voluntary membership does not stop those organisations from delivering the vital ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 27 Jul 2010
METIRIA TUREI ... of New Zealand, the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Greenpeace, the Save Happy Valley Coalition, and the World Wild Fund for Nature New Zealand are at the front line of New Zealand’s...
General Debate 28 Apr 2010
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... to facilitating mineral exploitation. The Green Party was deeply worried this week after seeing the Minister on the Greenpeace video. It said that the Hon Gerry Brownlee has fallen for “sexy coal” and was losing interest in gold. Of course, it ...
Maiden Statements 24 Feb 2010
GARETH HUGHES ... bottom trawlers from wiping out amazing undersea worlds, to most recently coordinating the Sign On campaign for Greenpeace, in which more than 200,000 Kiwis called on the Prime Minister to do the right thing for the climate. The 1999 ...
Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill
In Committee 25 Nov 2009
CAROL BEAUMONT ... about transferring cost from the emitter to the taxpayer, and to that extent it defeats the purpose of the exercise.” Greenpeace stated: “We now have on the table a pathetic ETS which won’t actually do anything to reduce emissions … our emissions ...
Third Reading 25 Nov 2009
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN ... not cap free allocations, which is quite extraordinary. I was just reading an article by Geoff Keey, who works for Greenpeace and has been at a lot of the international negotiations. When he described the new emissions trading scheme to some ...
Tourism
Clean, Green Image—Guardian Article 18 Nov 2009
Metiria Turei Will the Minister then accept the very kind offer made by Greenpeace to pay for his fare to the climate change conference in Copenhagen, in order to demonstrate to the many potential ...
Hon JOHN KEY No, I will not be accepting the cheque from Greenpeace to go to Copenhagen. It is very unlikely that I will be going there. I will be well represented by Tim Groser and ...
Charles Chauvel I seek leave to table a copy of a cheque raised by Greenpeace members, via cake stalls and sausage sizzles, for $4,781 to enable the Prime Minister to attend the Copenhagen ...
Hon Darren Hughes ... of order, Mr Speaker. Can I ask you to reflect on that. The Prime Minister in his answer referred to the cheque from Greenpeace. He introduced that material into the House in his answer. My colleague is simply tabling the information that the ...
General Debate 18 Nov 2009
MOANA MACKEY ... John Key does not want to go to Copenhagen with Nick Smith. I want to point out that we have a copy of a cheque here: Greenpeace has raised the money through grassroots fundraising to send John Key to Copenhagen. My colleague Charles Chauvel will ...
Customs and Excise (Sustainable Forestry) Amendment Bill
First Reading 18 Nov 2009
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... Forestry Industry Contractors Association, the Douglas-fir Association, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Greenpeace, the Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, the World Wide Fund for Nature New Zealand, and the ...
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... legal, and certified sustainable timber and wood production certification schemes. Finally, we are aware that Greenpeace is urging China and the other 187 signatory nations to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to ...
Education Amendment Bill 2009
First Reading 28 Apr 2009
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... year review, and that is not wise, in our view. Private schools are not the same as public schools. While working for Greenpeace I once gave the same speech to many schools in the Auckland region, in both public and private schools, and the ...
Prime Minister
Palm Kernel Imports—Profitability for Palm Oil Industry 17 Sep 2009
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... Palm oil - based products include margarine, processed foods, soap, and washing powder. I am keen to see whether Greenpeace intends to picket our supermarkets, if it really wants to stop deforestation in South-east Asia.
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... consumer products that are bought every day by New Zealanders in our supermarkets. I look forward to the Greens and Greenpeace picketing those supermarkets, if they really want to stop deforestation.
Climate Change—Green New Deal 4 Mar 2009
Charles Chauvel ... on climate change, as he does in this month’s Investigate magazine, he will cause reputable groups other than Greenpeace to follow Greenpeace’s example yesterday and withdraw from participation in the emissions trading scheme select ...
Hon JOHN KEY Firstly, if Greenpeace does not want to come along and give a submission to the special select committee on climate change, I say that is ...
Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill
First Reading 19 Feb 2009
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... entitled to participate in the process. It is only organisations like the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Greenpeace, Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, Environmental Defence Society, and a host of local ...
Address in Reply 11 Feb 2009
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... the economy, not when post-feminist women claw their way into high-status jobs. In the 1990s, thanks to Gordon and Greenpeace I met a river. This river begins in the translucent waters of Lake Tarawera. It travels underground for a while and ...
Electricity (Renewable Preference) Repeal Bill
First Reading 17 Dec 2008
CHRIS HIPKINS ... about the Bluegreens? Whatever happened to the Bluegreens? I am sure they had some views on this. In fact, they got Greenpeace to come along and speak to their conference on it.
CHRIS HIPKINS Oh, they have disappeared. But what did Greenpeace tell them? It said: “the fact is, the ETS will not be enough in itself to prevent inappropriate thermal projects, at ...
Electoral Finance Bill, Broadcasting Amendment Bill (No 3), Electoral Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 18 Dec 2007
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... to contribute to the political process by joining organisations like the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society and Greenpeace. The National Party recognises this. We did not want the term “third party”. We preferred the term “interested party”,...
Appropriation (Continuation of Interim Meaning of Funding for Parliamentary Purposes) Bill
In Committee 14 Nov 2007
ANNE TOLLEY ... by reference to views, positions, or policies—blah-blah-blah. The third provision catches everything—any group from Greenpeace to a mothers federation that is taking a position on a proposition with which one or more parties or one or more ...
Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill
Third Reading 8 Nov 2007
KEITH LOCKE ... a terrorist act is “seriously disrupting an infrastructure facility in a way likely to endanger human life”. Greenpeace suggested that at the very least this provision should be amended so that there had to be an intention to endanger ...
In Committee 6 Nov 2007
KEITH LOCKE ... Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee was that it was very broad. I have also introduced an amendment proposed by Greenpeace during the select committee process to amend the provision where someone could be deemed to have committed a ...
Second Reading 24 Oct 2007
KEITH LOCKE ... “serious interference with, or serious disruption to, an infrastructure facility, if likely to endanger human life:”. Greenpeace tried to get the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee to narrow that definition so that it would catch only ...
Urgent Debates - Emissions Trading Scheme—Government Announcement
Emissions Trading Scheme—Government Announcement 20 Sep 2007
TARIANA TURIA ... hard decisions have conveniently been left until after the elections. We are also cautious, in light of advice from Greenpeace, that major polluters, the big energy users, stand to benefit from windfall profits under the scheme, with free ...
General Debate 5 Sep 2007
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... willing to sign up to binding emission targets, and they made that clear. They helped draft the material, and even Greenpeace, which does not seem to have an awful lot of love for this particular Government, was very happy with the performance ...
Hon STEVE MAHAREY The Greenpeace people, if they were given a chance to talk about Nick Smith, however, would probably be a whole lot less kind, ...
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... to stop the Littlies Lobby from being able to have ads to debate the important issue of child abuse? Why is it that Greenpeace will not be able to run ads next year expressing its view on climate change? You see, this cynical, sick, tired ...
SANDRA GOUDIE ... are waiting and they are out there; they are keeping an eye on this and waiting to see which way the Government jumps—Greenpeace, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and Plunket, every one of those groups, and all of the people who took ...
Justice
Election Advertising—Government Policy 9 Aug 2007
Hon Bill English ... the criticism of every group—ranging from the Littlies Lobby to anti - child abuse campaigners, to teacher unions, to Greenpeace, to Amnesty International, to the ratepayers associations in any small town—that wants its voice to be heard in ...
Electoral Finance Bill
Second Reading 22 Nov 2007
Hon ANNETTE KING ... was made, many of their concerns about the bill would evaporate. Many groups, such as the National Council of Women, Greenpeace, and the Coalition for Open Government, have said that the changes made to the bill address their concerns. The ...
First Reading 26 Jul 2007
Hon BILL ENGLISH The PPTA—that is who. What will happen when Greenpeace wakes up and realises what a shambles Labour’s climate change policy is?
SIMON POWER ... be expedited. What this bill will do, apart from the matters pointed out by my colleague Bill English, is to have Greenpeace, the anti-whaling lobby, the battery hen lobby, Amnesty International, the Post Primary Teachers Association, the New ...
Food Safety
Food Safety—Exports from People’s Republic of China 18 Jul 2007
Sue Kedgley I have another document here from Greenpeace, which found that 70 percent of tomatoes were laced with—
Motions - Nuclear-Free Legislation—20th Anniversary
Nuclear-Free Legislation—20th Anniversary 12 Jun 2007
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... and those who organised the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Campaign for Non-Nuclear Futures . I honour Greenpeace, and those who organised Campaign Half Million and collected a third of a million signatures—the largest petition in ...
HONE HARAWIRA ... world, and the protests against the Springbok Tour. I also acknowledge the work of international organisations like Greenpeace, and I make special mention here of Fernando Pereira, whom my wife and I had the privilege to meet just hours before ...
HEATHER ROY ... nuclear power, and any informed debate would include this as an option. Even some high-profile Greens, including Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, advocate nuclear power as the environmentally acceptable power of the future. The nuclear ...
Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Bill
First Reading 15 Mar 2007
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... making sustainability a priority in the way in which we manage ocean resources is commendable. We endorse the view of Greenpeace that making sustainability the priority and urging precaution as a principle is a move along the right track if we ...
Energy
Electricity—Thermal Generation 26 Aug 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... would tie electricity prices to rising gas prices and increasing greenhouse gas emissions. It is no wonder that Greenpeace said of National’s policy: “Earth to National: there is this thing called climate change.”
Carbon Footprint—Reduction 1 Mar 2007
Hon DAVID PARKER ... emissions from the operation of the building. On an economy-wide basis, Holcim Cement, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Greenpeace have all produced major contributions on emissions trading.
Electricity—Renewable Generation 27 Feb 2007
Peter Brown ... clarify the position on what will happen if Huntly coal-fired power station is shut down—as is being advocated by Greenpeace; would New Zealand’s electricity supply suffer, and what effect would such a closure have on climate change?
Climate Change Issues
Greenhouse Gas Reduction—Engagement with Public 21 Jul 2009
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... the farming community, who were very nervous about the impacts of a bold target. There was an organised campaign by Greenpeace around a 40 percent reduction by 2020. Those advocating a 40 percent reduction need to explain to their fellow New ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Cuts 2 Apr 2009
Hon TIM GROSER ... account of different counties’ national circumstances. Our presentation was well-received, except, of course, by Greenpeace, which managed to present us with the “Fossil of the Day” award, but that is almost a badge of honour, I think, since ...
Emissions Trading Scheme—Permits 5 Mar 2008
RODNEY HIDE Does he agree with Dr Hugh Saddler and Dr Richard Denniss in their Greenpeace report New Zealand’s Expanding Carbon Footprint that under the Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme New ...
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... and rapidly growing emissions, and when we have organisations as diverse as the New Zealand Institute and Greenpeace all saying that, under current Government policy, emissions will continue to grow for at least the next decade?
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... member knows that, and playing around the way he does with the facts does not change the situation for anyone. Even Greenpeace knows that Nick Smith has no sway in his caucus, even if he believes something himself to start with.
Jeanette Fitzsimons Does the Minister agree with the key point made by both the Greenpeace report and the New Zealand Institute report Actions Speak Louder than Words that New Zealand’s competitive advantage ...
Climate Change—2-degree Limit 5 Dec 2007
Jeanette Fitzsimons ... be supporting, at least in principle, the Tropical Deforestation Emissions Reduction Mechanism, or TDERM, proposed by Greenpeace in Bali yesterday, which would allow developed countries to meet some of their target by paying to protect tropical ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... principle that avoided deforestation needs to be included in international efforts. I have not read the proposal that Greenpeace put yesterday, but I would expect that it would be a thoughtful contribution on the issue.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Reductions 22 Nov 2007
Hone Harawira ... greenhouse gas emissions by 9 million tonnes during its term in office, can the Minister understand the concern of Greenpeace that this Government seems more concerned about meeting international obligations than actually reducing greenhouse ...
Emissions—Greenhouse Gas 6 Sep 2007
Jeanette Fitzsimons I seek leave to table three documents. The first is a press release from Greenpeace on 3 September, stating: “New Zealand should be utterly ashamed of its performance … ”—
Jeanette Fitzsimons I seek leave to table a press release put out by Greenpeace today about Steve Maharey telling curious tales in Parliament.
Emissions—Reduction Targets 4 Sep 2007
Hon DAVID PARKER ... exaggerated bit of rhetoric from non-governmental organisations, we would never get down to business. It appears that Greenpeace is actually quite happy with the result from Vienna, but it appears to suggest this was obtained against the ...
Climate Change Policies—Reports 26 Oct 2006
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... there is increased support for the Government’s climate change policies when everyone, from Government officials to Greenpeace to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, says that the Government has no policy and has no idea how it ...
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... there is increased support for the Government’s climate change policies, when everyone, from his own officials to Greenpeace and even to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, says that the Government has no policy and has no ...
Consumer's Right to Know (Food Information) Bill
First Reading 14 Jun 2006
SUE KEDGLEY ... As well, 21 organisations, including Parents Centres, the SPCA, the Breast Cancer Network, GE-Free New Zealand, Greenpeace, and so forth, have written to me to support this bill. So too have major producer boards such as Horticulture New ...
SUE KEDGLEY I seek leave to table a press release by Greenpeace supporting the Consumer’s Right to Know (Food Information) Bill. I seek leave to table the Pesticide Action Network ...