New Zealand’s water quality in a dire state: New govt report
Nearly half of groundwater sites contaminated. Rivers you can’t swim in. This isn’t a warning anymore.

Nearly half of groundwater sites contaminated. Rivers you can’t swim in. This isn’t a warning anymore.

More than 70 vessels. One blockade. And now Greenpeace is joining the convoy heading straight for it.

If it’s safe, drink it. That’s the challenge Greenpeace just laid down on Parliament’s lawn — and it cuts straight through years of political avoidance on nitrate contamination.

They can call it fisheries management all they like, but bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf looks more like sanctioned vandalism. Now a flotilla is heading out to make that impossible to ignore.

100,000 voices ignored. Cameras blocked. Bottom trawling protected. This isn’t just a fisheries bill — it’s a political line in the sand.
A proposed $1 billion LNG terminal is being slammed as costly, high-emission and corporate welfare — raising serious questions about NZ’s energy future.

Matt Watson, recreational fishers and Greenpeace have forced a political retreat over Shane Jones’ Fisheries Amendment Bill, but critics warn the wider attack on public oversight and ocean protection remains.

Greenpeace says the Fisheries Amendment Bill New Zealand must be rejected, warning it weakens ocean protections and transparency.

Environmental groups warn the Fisheries Amendment Bill could weaken ocean protections, expand bottom trawling, and hand greater control to the fishing industry.

Fonterra faces backlash over profits, brand sell-off and rising dairy prices as critics say the co-op has lost its social licence in New Zealand.