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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Luxon caught out again.

Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers

The Prime Minister is urging young people to look for work in the sector amid changes to the Jobseeker benefit.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Join the call for a more sustainable, resilient and affordable energy future!
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/cle...

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.

action.greenpeace.org.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Why no-one is fixing the energy market rort draining Kiwis
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Current affairs: why no-one is fixing the energy market rort draining Kiwis

OPINION: Successive governments promised competition would deliver cheaper power, groceries and banking. Instead, New Zealand has ended up with cosy oligopolies that gouge consumers.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

New Zealand's electricity market is a total rort.

Households pay high prices so that big energy companies can increase profits.

We’re not in a cost of living or energy crisis at all. It’s actually a “markets gouging us blind while raking in massive profits” crisis.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 2d

For the first time since a Kremlin crackdown on NGOs following Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine, a groundbreaking report into its war-waging authoritarianism shows that the environment is one of the few topics that still has the power to generate protest.
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It's #TimeToResist

Russia’s fossil fuel war economy drives oppression and climate breakdown – but also resistance - Greenpeace International

A new report – the most far-reaching analysis of environment and environmentalism in Russia since 2022 – shows how Putin’s regime relies on a toxic troika of extractivism, authoritarianism...

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 2d

Why the government's much-trumpted power plan to reform the electricity sector is more likely to result in dirtier, more expensive power, than a clean, cheap solution.👇

The big nothing-burger of a power plan www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

The big nothing-burger of a power plan

Anaylsis: If you were looking for a government solution to soaring electricity bills, you won't have found it in last week's announcement.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 2d

Despite being banned in Russia, Greenpeace continues to work on Russia and related issues.

GREENPEACE:
Russia’s fossil fuel war economy drives oppression and climate breakdown - but also resistance www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #russia #ukraine #greenpeace

Russia’s fossil fuel war economy drives oppression and climate breakdown – but also resistance - Greenpeace International

The most far-reaching analysis of environment and environmentalism in Russia since 2022 shows how Putin’s regime relies on a toxic troika of extractivism, authoritarianism and war

www.greenpeace.org

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 2d

Russia is in a spiral toward a terminal war economy 'troika' of extractivism, authoritarianism and war - groundbreaking new report sourced by experts from outside Russia defies a Kremlin crackdown on NGOs following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
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#TimeToResist

Report front cover:
'Fossil Fuel Empire: The Environment of Post-2022 Russia and the Kremlin's Threat to Domestic and Global Stability and Sustainability' - with a picture of smoke rising into the sky of Norilsk, Russia's most polluted city, and graffiti reading 'No Happiness'

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 2d

Power struggle: why fixing NZ’s ‘broken’ electricity market is such a formidable challenge www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Power struggle: why fixing NZ’s ‘broken’ electricity market is such a formidable challenge - Greenpeace Aotearoa

The growing view that New Zealand’s energy market is “broken” has brought with it a stream of suggestions for piecemeal changes that nibble at the edges of the problem, without…

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 2d

Russia’s fossil fuel war economy drives oppression and climate breakdown - but also resistance www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Russia’s fossil fuel war economy drives oppression and climate breakdown – but also resistance - Greenpeace International

A new report – the most far-reaching analysis of environment and environmentalism in Russia since 2022 – shows how Putin’s regime relies on a toxic troika of extractivism, authoritarianism...

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 2d

NEW REPORT
Russia’s descent into an entrenched war economy with a troika of fossil fuel extractivism, authoritarianism and militarism marking the collapse of Russian environment, biodiversity, society and international relations amid its ongoing criminal war in Ukraine, via @greenpeace.org

Russia locked in spiral toward terminal war economy of fossil fuels, state oppression and bloody aggression – pioneering report - Greenpeace International

Groundbreaking analysis of Putin’s destabilisation of environmental, social and political systems also sends defiant signal following a Kremlin crackdown on environmental and human rights groups in th...

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 3d

We can have a clean energy future with less pollution and affordable electricity - but Luxon is threatening that with plans to lock NZ into decades of new fossil gas generation.

Sign the petition to say YES to a clean energy future and #NoFossilGas!

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.

action.greenpeace.org.nz

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 4d

“The courage, humanity and compassion of the Sumud flotilla are more than symbolic, they are a visceral reminder to all of us of our duty to stand up to injustice and to stand for the innocent.”

#StopTheGenocide

Do Gaza aid flotillas symbolize futile protest — or a real strategy to confront Israel’s blockade?

LONDON: Just after sundown on Oct. 1, Israeli naval forces surrounded the largest activist flotilla yet to challenge the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Within hours, most of the 44 boats carrying more th...

www.arabnews.com

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 4d

Our heartfelt congratulations to the State of Palestine on ratifying the Global Ocean Treaty. ⁣
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In the face of genocide, famine and suffering, this decision to stand for our shared planet and ocean is a powerful act of courage & solidarity. ⁣
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#ProtectTheOceans #StopDeepSeaMining #StopTheGenocide

Graphic heart around the State of Palestine flag (in red, black, white and green). Text: the State of Palestine just ratified the Global Ocean Treaty

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 4d

“The courage, humanity and compassion of the Sumud flotilla are more than symbolic, they are a visceral reminder to all of us of our duty to stand up to injustice and to stand for the innocent.”

www.arabnews.com/node/2617699...

Do Gaza aid flotillas symbolize futile protest — or a real strategy to confront Israel’s blockade?

LONDON: Just after sundown on Oct. 1, Israeli naval forces surrounded the largest activist flotilla yet to challenge the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Within hours, most of the 44 boats carrying more th...

www.arabnews.com

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 4d

Dairy conversions boom in Canterbury despite ‘nitrate emergency’

⁦‪Fonterra‬⁩ increases profit and pollution while we pay the price of contaminated drinking water, polluted rivers and methane climate emissions.

#TooManyCows #TooMuchInfluence

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Dairy conversions boom despite ‘nitrate emergency’

Canterbury could soon have 35,000 more dairy cows on its pastures, as consenting rules are relaxed and prices for milk products spiral.

www.thepress.co.nz

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 4d

From Hope to Victory: A historic Milestone for Ocean Protection, and what´s next www.greenpeace.org/internationa... via @greenpeace.org

From Hope to Victory: A historic Milestone for Ocean Protection, and What´s Next - Greenpeace International

After nearly 15 years in the making, more than 60 countries have now ratified the Global Ocean Treaty.

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

In the controversy and debate following Winston Peters' announcement at the UN last week that NZ would not yet recognise Palestine as a state, it was easy to overlook a small but telling detail👇
#nzpol

Who wrote the Cabinet paper recommending NZ not recognise a Palestinian state?

Analysis - Cabinet papers are usually drafted by public servants in departments that fall within the minister's portfolio area but that did not happen in this case.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

First they ignore you...

Screenshot of a Fed Farmers tweet: “Federated Farmers is renewing its call for Greenpeace to be stripped of its charitable status after members of the activist group were convicted for illegal activity.”

Which has a dramatic screenshot of a press release by Greenpeace reporting on trespass charges brough against them for a peaceful protest against seabed mining

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

On top of everything else the people of Gaza are suffering 😢

Environmental damage in Gaza Strip harming human health, threatening long-term food and water security - new UNEP report
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Environmental damage in Gaza Strip harming human health, threatening long-term food and water security - new UNEP report

Nairobi, 23 September 2025 - Two years of escalating conflict have caused unprecedented levels of environmental damage in the Gaza Strip, damaging its soils, freshwater supplies and coastline, finds a...

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

The contamination of rural drinking water is already an emergency.

Increased dairy expansion will make it worse.
maps.greenpeace.org/maps/aotearo...

Know Your Nitrate Contamination Map

This interactive map shows nitrate contamination of drinking water across NZ. Zoom in or Search for your property.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

"Nitrate emergency starts here"
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre..., via @greenpeace.org.nz

‘Nitrate emergency starts here’: Greenpeace pins blame on Canterbury dairy conversions - Greenpeace Aotearoa

‘The Nitrate Emergency: it starts here.’ That’s what a freshly-installed Fonterra farm sign said outside Canterbury’s first complete dairy conversion this morning. Greenpeace installed the modified Fo...

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

Greenpeace pins blame for nitrate contamination of drinking water on Canterbury dairy conversions with giant signs in the area.

#TooManyCows #nzpol #NitrateEmergency

It starts here: Nitrate Emergency - Fonterra

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 5d

There is no place for fossil gas now or the future as we face a worsening #ClimateCrisis.

Tankers change course before Greenpeace blockade of liquified gas terminal ends www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #NoFossilGas

Tankers change course as Greenpeace blockade of liquified gas terminal ends - Greenpeace International

After almost 30 hours of blockade in the Zeebrugge gas terminal, Greenpeace Belgium activists have been removed and arrested.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 6d

Update from Zeebrugge, Belgium: After almost 30 hrs of blockade at the LNG terminal, Greenpeace Belgium activists were removed and arrested. The ship Witness was towed away.

At least 2 LNG tankers headed for Zeebrugge seem to have changed course as a result of the action. #StopFossilGas

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