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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Govt finally did it. The legal guardrails are gone. We are heading back to a bygone era of smokestacks pumping toxins into our air & pollution pipes contaminating our water. They've written these laws with and for the polluters & the pillagers. And we are going to be the ones who pay for it.
greenpeace.org
RMA reaction: Government demolishes cornerstone of environmental protection - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The replacement RMA laws will allow companies to cause more pollution, contamination and environmental degradation in Aotearoa.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When the next cylones falls there will be blood on Chris Bishops hands as a result of this decision. Not that he remotely cares about the health of our people, evidenced by the the fact that he spent years of his life working a a Big Tobacco lobbyist. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
stuff.co.nz
Chris Bishop blocks council plan to tackle forestry slash and erosion
An environmental group says the RMA Reform Minister’s decision to reject urgent land-use protections for flood-hit Tairāwhiti is “indefensible”.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
SCAM ALERT. If you've received comms from this Govt stating that the public will have start paying companies to stop stealing & polluting drinking water... please be advised the scam is real and is being orchestrated by three parties backed by 100,000's of dollars in corporate political donations
greenpeace.org
Five reasons the new RMA bills should alarm everyone in New Zealand - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The Luxon Government has torn up the Resource Management Act (RMA) — New Zealand's core environmental law.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ooooooo we should start doing that
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So let me get this straight. A serial tree killer that committed a crime, gets discharge without conviction. Meanwhile peaceful environmental activists routinely get convictions & criminal records for minor infringements like trespass. Sorry but the what the f*ck NZ. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...
rnz.co.nz
Alan Trent named as businessman who felled native trees on Tasman conservation land
Businessman and property developer Alan Trent has been named as the man who felled native trees on conservation land near his property and ended up in court.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
See no evidence. Hear no Evidence. Speak no Evidence. That is the Luxon Government's motto for its dirty polluting LNG fossil gas terminal that we don't need. But hey it probably keeps the Coalition Govt.s corporate donors happy and I guess that's all the evidence they need to carry on.
rnz.co.nz
Officials redacted advice showing 'low need' for LNG imports
Government officials tried to redact advice pointing to a "low need" for the facility and, in some cases, no need at all.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The biggest attack on Conservation Land in NZ"s history is underway. The Luxon Govt. plans to open the door to selling off 60% of our public conservation land - around five million ha. It is the final move in their coordinated agenda to hand the keys to NZ to foreign mining giants. Read more here
greenpeace.org
The biggest attack on conservation land in New Zealand’s history - Greenpeace Aotearoa
How the Luxon government plans to  gut the Conservation Act and open the door to selling off around 60% of all conservation land.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 29/04/2026
While ordinary people face higher energy bills and economic uncertainty, oil and gas companies often see their profits surge during geopolitical crises. We must tax the fossil fuel corporations profiting from these crises instead of letting them pass on the cost to us.
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Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit, analysis finds
Climate group calls for urgent windfall tax on excess fossil fuel profits, as delegates tell Colombia conference their nations are suffering
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Oil and gas companies drive wars and their climate pollution is killing the planet. It is time to end murderous fossil fuels. We can all play a part in making that happen by demanding our Govt embrace the clean energy revolution.
action.greenpeace.org.nz
PETITION: Choose a clean energy future
Sign on now to call on the Luxon Govt to embrace a Clean Energy Future for NZ, invest in solar and wind, and reject new fossil fuel electricity generation and a new fossil gas import facility.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
BP and the British & US govt overthrew Iran's democratically elected PM - Mossadegh, which paved the way for a brutal regime to take over. Iranian democracy was killed by BP, Britain and the US so that the British could own Iran's oil and the West's access to it would be protected
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BP - A Long, Bloody History of Reckless Greed
British Petroleum, the company responsible for the worst single-source environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, has over its 100-year history caused a number of environmental and workplace disasters...
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
By the 1950s Iranians had enough of that, took back control of Iranian politics from Britain and the Shah and democratically elected a new Prime Minister - Mossadegh - who was planning to nationalize Iran's oil. BP did not like that so... enter Operation Ajax the first ever CIA backed coup
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
British Petroleum, BP's original name was the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) formed by a group of Brits after a corrupt Shah sold exclusive rights to Iran's oil & gas to a London financier. APOC, now BP, exploited that oil & gas + their Iranian workers & cheated Iranians out of their promised cut
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
BP just made more than double its quarterly profit - and its all thanks to the US & Israel's murder of 165 Iranian schoolgirls & thousands more men, women & children across Iran and Lebanon. But, this is not even the first time BP has made its dirty, earth-killing profits off the blood of Iranians.🧵
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Govt announced its support for an LNG import terminal in Feb using modelling that didn't take into account price volatility. Since Feb: - LNG prices have gone up 50-70% - Its predicted they'll go up another 50-100% - We've also faced 8 severe weather related states of emergency #climatecrisis
rnz.co.nz
Government's plans for LNG terminal didn't model international price spike
A climate advocate said the decision not to model price volatility was "remarkable" and raised further questions about whether the planned facility was a good idea.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They not only cancelled the fund to help industries get off fossil fuels - which would have helped bring down pollution & the cost of goods They then took the $ from that cancelled fund & used it to pay consultants working on their new ludicrous plan to build an LNG fossil gas import terminal
nzherald.co.nz
Govt taps shuttered green fund to push ahead with LNG import plan
The cost of buying an LNG terminal is coming from a closed "decarbonising" industry fund.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Fossil fuels. Oil, coal & gas are not just making life more expensive for Kiwis - they are making life on earth more precarious. Yet, what have our so-called "leaders" in this 'drill baby drill' fossil fuel obsessed Coalition Govt just gone and done... you honestly can't even make this stuff up.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The stats are in & there is no escaping the dots connecting the climate & cost of living crises. The biggest driver of inflation in the last year - electricity . This quarter - petrol. Meanwhile costly storms keep hitting NZ. They all have one thing in common.
interest.co.nz
Annual inflation steady at 3.1%, continues to breach RBNZ target range
Annual inflation 3.1% in March quarter, with electricity leading the way. Rent rise lowest in 16 years, petrol price rises show up for March quarterly rate
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They not only cancelled the fund in place to help the factories that produce our food and goods get OFF fossil fuels (the GIDI fund). They then took the money they saved from that very fund and used it to pay consultants working on their new plan to build an LNG fossil gas import terminal.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Fossil fuels. Oil, coal & gas are not just making life more expensive for Kiwis - they are making life on earth more precarious. Yet, what have our so-called "leaders" in this 'drill baby drill' fossil fuel obsessed Coalition Govt just gone and done... it's pretty hard to believe...
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
When you're paying $3 a litre for petrol... Remember Luxon's govt crashed the EV market, slashed public transport & cycleway spending & cut fees for importing gas guzzlers by 80% - turning NZ into a dumping ground for the worlds dirtiest most oil hungry vehicles. Credit @newsroom.co.nz for the graph
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
5) They killed of the WGTN low emissions transport plan. 6) They cut public transport, walking & cycle funding so they could build more roads 7) Now they want to charge us all a new gas tax to build an LNG import terminal that will expose us to another volatile global fossil fuel market
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
2) They are considering scrapping the clean car standard altogether. This will make NZ even more of a "dumping ground" for high-emission, petrol dependent vehicles. 3) They killed off the Auckland light rail plan 4) They ended subsidies to public transport for young people
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
NZ'ers are paying $3 a litre for petrol. Did Luxon's Govt make this situation worse? Let's check the receipts: 1) They collapsed the EV market in NZ by killing the clean car discount + making fees to import gas guzzling cars nearly 80% cheaper. EV sales dropped 70% in NZ while globally sales rose
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
2) Now they are considering scrapping the clean car standard altogether. This will further make NZ a "dumping ground" for higher-emission, more petrol dependent vehicles. 3) They cancelled Auckland light rail. And they killed off Wellington’s low emissions transport plan.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The PM's been reading too much fossil fuel fan fiction. You don't make electricity cheaper by taxing power bills to fund fossil fuels. You don't stop climate floods by building a dirty LNG terminal. Put the gas industry romance novel down Luxon & get real about building the clean energy we need.
greenpeace.org
Taxing Power Bills to Fund Fossil Fuels? No thanks - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Why the government’s LNG terminal is the wrong decision for Aotearoa.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
So just to be clear Luxon wants Kiwi families to pay a new tax on their power bills to build an LNG terminal that we don’t need & that will cook the climate, so that Methanex, a company contributing 0 dollars in tax themselves, can keep sending their profits offshore. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/30/m...
newsroom.co.nz
Too broke to pay tax? Methanex pays $70m dividend to Canadian owner
The Govt has paid hundreds of millions in subsidies to the Taranaki-based methanol producer; now there are calls to speed its exit from NZ. Jonathan Milne reports.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 12/12/2025
The Government has unveiled two new bills to replace the RMA. Ministers are talking about decks and front doors - but the RMA is what protects land, air, water and wildlife from mining, dams and industrial farming. These reforms weaken environmental protections.🧵 #climatecrisis
Cows standing in deep mud in Southland.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Surprised to see @nzfirst.bsky.social back for more of David Seymour’s dead rats seeing as they only just finished choking down the last one (the RSB). The new RM bills are likely to force NZ'ers to pay foreign companies just to stop them trashing the country. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
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Another dead rat banquet for NZ First? Resource Management bills expected tomorrow - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace is questioning whether NZ First has acquired a taste for the ACT Party’s dead rats, as the Government prepares to unveil its new Resource Management bills tomorrow. 
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The Luxon Government is on a reckless rampage that risks turning Aotearoa into an industrial wasteland to be used & abused by foreign mining giants. As evidenced yesterday by proposed amendments to an already brutal attack on nature AKA the Fast Track Act www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
greenpeace.org
Fast-Track Amendment Bill a Savage Escalation in Government’s War on Nature - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The Fast-Track Amendment Bill passed its first reading in parliament today, prompting fierce condemnation from Greenpeace, who have branded it a “savage escalation of the Luxon Government’s war on nat...
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Our submission elaborates on the differences between conventional selective breeding techniques & gene editing - as does Prof Heinemanns. Gene editing (incl SDN-1) can cause unintended mutations in species, and put DNA from one species into another, by accident - as in the hornless cattle incident.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It is worth reading Prof Jack Heinemann and his teams subs on this. They argue SDN-1 is a powerful GE tool capable of creating GMOs. The exemption of it, as proposed in the bill, would remove all oversight, tracking and accountability of GMOs created by it. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
researchgate.net
(PDF) INBI submission to health select committee gene tech bill 2024
PDF | New Zealand is proposing to amend gene technology (biotechnology, GMO) laws and regulations. Consultation on the proposed framework has begun. Our... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Sorry but that's not right - our subs argues the opposite of that. SDN-1 is a powerful GE tool that can introduce foreign transgenes into the genome of a species in the same way older GE techniques create transgenic GMOs, and it has already done so. For example: theecologist.org/2019/aug/21/...
theecologist.org
Antibiotic resistance in ‘gene-edited’ cattle
FDA finds unintended antibiotic resistance genes in ‘gene-edited’ dehorned cattle.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is our submission on it for more info www.greenpeace.org/static/plane...
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hey Manu. The Bill proposes to exempt gene editing techniques including SDN-1, from regulation altogether. If exempt SDN-1 can be be used to create GMOs outside the lab with no oversight. The Select Committee recommended an amendment to that but we're yet to see if the Govt will accept it.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 16/10/2025
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
greenpeace.nz
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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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What if polluters could demand a payout – just for being told to stop polluting? That’s exactly what the Govt is considering putting into the new RMA replacement laws. A fringe idea called “regulatory takings” which is really just a polluters get paid plan. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
greenpeace.org
The Polluters Get Paid Plan: AKA Regulatory Takings - Greenpeace Aotearoa
How the Government is pushing an extreme idea that would block environmental protection and reshape our democracy.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Luxon Govt subsidy to fossil fuel companies is 12 TIMES HIGHER per person than Trump's subsidy. Trump subsidy is US$625m to coal - NZ$1070m. Luxon subsidy is (at least) NZ$200m to oil and gas exploration. 5.2m people in NZ and 347m in US. Trump subsidy NZ$3 per person; Luxon NZ$38 per person.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 30/09/2025
Families are cutting back on heating, small businesses are struggling to pay their bills, and manufacturers are shutting their doors – while the Prime Minister plays political games. #nzpol ##ClimateCrisis #SolariseNZ www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
greenpeace.org
Luxon’s gas letter is a political stunt to hide his own Government's failures
Families are cutting back on heating, small businesses are struggling to pay their bills, and manufacturers are shutting their doors – while the Prime Minister plays political games.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Let's call Luxon's little gas letter what it was. A textbook political stunt that leaders use when they don’t have a credible plan: the “blame the last lot” routine. This Govt is trying to distract from its own track record which has made the energy crisis worse. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
greenpeace.org
Luxon’s gas letter is a political stunt to hide his own Government's failures - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Families are cutting back on heating, small businesses are struggling to pay their bills, and manufacturers are shutting their doors – while the Prime Minister plays political games.
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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I will reiterate as someone with field and specific knowledge of New Zealand’s oil and gas sector, there is no giant untapped field out there. Even if Labour agrees to this, not a single drop of oil or gas will be produced in the next decade because it’s not there. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon asks Labour leader Chris Hipkins to support offshore gas exploration
The Prime Minister wants a bipartisan approach to offshore exploration for natural gas.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 29/09/2025
PRESS RELEASE: International organisations condemn ‘no additional warming’ approach as NZ methane target decision looms www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol
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International organisations condemn ‘no additional warming’ approach as NZ methane target decision looms - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Nearly 100 organisations have launched an open letter to governments calling for binding targets to cut industrial agricultural emissions.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Now David Seymour & co want to make it even easier for chemical cowboys to put more dangerous pesticides on our food and into our environment, to get away with it. 26,000+ have said HELL NO. Sign the open letter action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/gly...
action.greenpeace.org.nz
Say no to poison porridge - sign the open letter
The Luxon Govt aims to allow 100 times more glyphosate residue on our food and fast-track more toxic agrichemicals into our food system. Say no to poison porridge. Sign the open letter now.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
One company illegally sprayed the organophosphate pesticide, methamidophos, leaving residues at 30x the legal limit on food. That pesticide is so toxic it’s now banned. But sure, let’s keep cracking down on poor people stealing food they need to survive while agribusiness crooks walk free.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The Govt reckons it’s “tough on crime” - unless you're a company illegally spraying toxic pesticides on our food. Official documents uncovered by Greenpeace show four companies repeatedly broke food safety laws. Guess how many prosecutions in 9 years? Zero. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
greenpeace.org
'Tough on crime' Government lets repeat pesticide offenders off the hook - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace is calling the Government’s “tough on crime” rhetoric a complete sham after official documents reveal companies repeatedly breaking food safety laws are escaping prosecution.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 11/09/2025
PRESS RELEASE MBIE’s latest quarterly energy report shows electricity prices remain stubbornly high, coal imports increasing and the Luxon government fumbling the ball on the energy crisis. #nzpol #ClimateCrisis #SolariseNZ
greenpeace.org
Damning MBIE report: Coal imports skyrocket, power prices remain high
MBIE’s latest quarterly energy report, released today, shows electricity prices remain stubbornly high, while coal imports rocket.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
4/ Submissions are due 27 July – follow the link to make yours now. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
greenpeace.org
Oppose mining in fragile ecosystems: Submission guide to stop RMA changes - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Stop Luxon letting mining companies re-write our environmental law
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
3/ This is not policymaking in the public interest – it’s corporate pillage. It's Luxon's govt yet again working to make multinational mining giants and their offshore shareholders rich by letting them loot Aotearoa, poison our water, destroy native habitats and extract more climate killing coal.
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
2/ Wetlands, forests and protected ecosystems are all on the chopping block. And official documents show only two industry lobby groups – Straterra (the mining lobbyists) and the Quarrying lobby group – were consulted. There was no consultation with Māori or environmental groups. #DefendTeTiriti
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gen-toop.bsky.social @gen-toop.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
1/ The latest from Luxon’s War on Nature is a proposal to make it easier for mining corporations to bulldoze NZ's most fragile and precious ecosystems. And the mining industry didn’t just get a seat at the table - they basically got given the pen to re-write the mining rulebook. #DefendNature #NZpol
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