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Greenpeace Anti-Drilling Petition: A Wall of Words
Greenpeace Anti-Drilling Petition: A Wall of Words
Petition Brings 140,000 Signatories to Parliament
24 July, 2012
By Mark P. Williams
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Today Greenpeace New Zealand led the delivery of an anti-fossil fuel exploration petition with 140,000 signatories to parliament creating a wall of boxes, each carrying just over 5000 signatures.
Simon Boxer, climate campaigner for Greenpeace New Zealand was spokesperson for the event. He was accompanied by representatives of a number of other environmental and community groups, several of whom spoke on the issues which concerned them.
The groups represented at the event included, Te Whanau a Apanui, Oil Free Otago, Boardriders Against Drilling, Oil Free Ototah, Clean Energy Future Action Group (Nelson), The Coal Action Network Aotearoa, and Forest and Bird.
Oil-Free Otago also handed over a petition of 2000 signatories against Texan oil company Andarko's planned deep sea operations off the Otago and Canterbury coastline.
Simon Boxer passed the petition to Green MP Gareth Hughes who accepted the petition on behalf of parliament, saying that he would be tabling it this afternoon before question time.
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Simon
Boxer introducing Te Whanau a Apanui runanga chairwoman
Adelaid Waititi
Neve,
Spokesperson for Oil-Free Otago
Simon Boxer
introducing Gareth Hughes MP for the Green
party
Tim
JonesSpokesperson for the Coal Action Network
Aotearoa
The Petition goes to Parliament
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ENDS
Mark P. Williams
Political Journalist and Independent Academic Researcher
Journalist and independent academic researcher with primary interests in politics and literature.
As a researcher I am a contributor to various academic publications, including Alluvium journal of 21st century literature, The Literary London Journal, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, and Critical Engagements: Journal of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies (UKNMFS).
As a journalist, I have worked as Parliamentary reporter for Scoop Independent Media and International editor for the Scoop Review of Books.
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