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  Shark finning ban to be in force sooner

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  • Published: 09-01-2014, 12:50 PM
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  Shark finning ban to be in force sooner

  
  The government has agreed to a tighter timeframe for the banning of shark finning in New Zealand waters.
  Conservation Minister Nick Smith and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy confirmed on Thursday the government's plan to ban the controversial practice, which has been descibed as a national disgrace. The ban will mean sharks won't be able to be caught, killed and have their fins sliced off before the rest of the body is thrown back into the water. It's already illegal to ...

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  Shell seeking $700,000 reparation from Lucy Lawless and 7 Greenpeace activists

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  • Published: 14-09-2012, 02:26 PM
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  Shell seeking $700,000 reparation from Lucy Lawless and 7 Greenpeace activists

  The sentencing of Lucy Lawless and seven other Greenpeace activists has been adjourned because reparation of more than $700,000 has been sought. Lawless, under her real name Lucy Tapert, Jan Raoni Hammer, Mike Buchanan, Shayne Comino, Vivienne Hadlow, Shai Naides, Zach Penman and Ilai Amir were to be sentenced in New Plymouth District Court today after pleading guilty to charges of illegally boarding a ship in June. However the sentencing has been put off until November 22, a Greenpeace spokes...

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  Greenpeace & iwi face bill for court case

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  • Published: 23-06-2012, 04:21 PM
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  Greenpeace & iwi face bill for court case

  

  Judge Warwick Gendall

  Greenpeace and an East Coast iwi could face a hefty legal bill after their application for a judicial review into the awarding of major oil exploration permits was rejected. Earlier this month Greenpeace and East Coast iwi Te Whanau-a-Apanui had applied for a judicial review of the decision by the Government to award large oil exploration permits in the Raukumara Basin. The application claimed that then Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee wrongly believed he should not tak...

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