press releases
Last edited 5 August 1999 at 8:00am
A three week Greenpeace scientific expedition to the retreating Arctic ice pack, completed on July 31st,has uncovered new evidence that climate change appears to be impacting on the wildlife and ecology of the region, particularly walrus young.
Last edited 30 July 1999 at 8:00am
Greenpeace today announced a unique collaboration with Scottish wave power companies to promote and maintain Scotland's place as a world leader in wave power. The announcement was made on board the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, which is on a 3-day visit to Glasgow to highlight the Scottish wave industry. Scotland already has the world's most innovative wave power companies, one of the world's best wave climates and some of the world's leading wave research scientists.
Last edited 28 July 1999 at 8:00am
London -- Following an appeal against a Magistrate's decision to refuse bail yesterday, a Judge at Norwich Crown Court has granted Lord Peter Melchett bail.
Last edited 27 July 1999 at 8:00am
Twenty Eight Greenpeace volunteers, including Lord Peter Melchett, being held in police custody for decontaminating a genetically modified (GM) farm-scale trial are appearing in Norwich Magistrates Court today. Before adjourning for lunch, the Magistrate denied Lord Melchett bail until August 5th, the remaining 27 will be heard after lunch.
The 28 are being charged with criminal damage and theft and will plead not guilty. Greenpeace Campaign Director Sarah Burton explained that this issue is about the defence of public rights. She said, "the public has the right to a safe environment and food-chain free from GM contamination. If the authorities, in this case the Government, fail to uphold those rights it is legitimate for others to do so. We took urgent action to defend those public rights."
Last edited 23 July 2011 at 12:59pm
Greenpeace protesters uproot GM crops in Norfolk
At 5.15am today a Greenpeace decontamination unit removed genetically modified (GM) pollution from the third farm-scale experiment to be disrupted in the UK over the last eight weeks.
The six acre GM maize (1) site at Lyng in Norfolk, due to flower in one week, was partially decontaminated by 30 peaceful Greenpeace volunteers with the help of a farm mower. Removing the crop down to its roots, the maize was then bagged up to contain the contamination.
Last edited 25 July 1999 at 8:00am
On Sunday the 25th of July 1999 thousands of people, including many celebrities such as Emily Lloyd, Maryam D'Abo, Simon and Yasmin Le Bon, Ben Elliott and Jemima Khan, will express their support for organic food and opposition to GM food at Britain's largest ever organic picnic.
Last edited 23 July 1999 at 8:00am
Environmental group calls on UK government to stop expansion plans for MOX
Greenpeace today held a press conference to call on the British Government and its state-owned nuclear reprocessing company, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. (BNFL) to immediately rescind the freeze on its bank account, and to end plans to expand plutonium fuel (MOX) production at BNFL's Sellafield plant in Cumbria, north England.
Last edited 22 July 1999 at 8:00am
Greenpeace today called all countries on the route of the nuclear weapons-usable plutonium shipment to take all possible action to oppose the transport, which could be the first of 80 such shipments during the next decade.
Last edited 21 July 1999 at 8:00am
Nuclear lobby freezes the international environmental group's bank account
The Greenpeace vessel MV Sirius was ordered to leave harbour and French territorial waters, during a peaceful protest against the departure of the British flagged freighter Pacific Teal from the French port of Cherbourg this afternoon.
Escorted by a military armada of naval vessels, commando inflatables,and helicopters, the British-flagged freighter Pacific Teal departed Cherbourg today at 17h00 CET with its cargo of nuclear weapons-usable plutonium fuel (MOX).
Last edited 20 July 1999 at 8:00am
London -- The UK Government last night banned the MV Greenpeace from UK waters, a move described as draconian and anti-democratic by the international environmental organisation.
In a letter faxed to the Greenpeace vessel, the UK Government invoked the 1995 Merchant Shipping Act to ban the MV Greenpeace from all United Kingdom waters in the Irish Sea, St George's Channel, the Bristol Channel, and the English Channel, citing safety concerns.
