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News
03 October 2002
Taxpayers Should not pay
for GM Seed Contamination
Liability for GM contamination
must remain with those who import or use GM seed and not be
passed to the taxpayer.....More
26 September 2002
Key
GMO Issues Remain Unanswered
“Providing more flexibility
over how GMOs are released is prudent but does not address
the real questions raised by GM release” said Sustainability
Council Executive Director, Simon Terry....More
09 August 2002 Government
Too Slow to Protect Against GM Maize
Government is shown to have again
acted too late in the face of a clear exposure to GM contamination
...More
05 August 2002 Sustainable Development
Strategy Requires More Grunt
The Sustainability Council backed
today's call by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
for a review of the capacity within government to implement
its proposed Sustainable Development Strategy...More
21 July 2002 Extending
Moratorium Affects Tiny Part of Research
An extension of the moratorium
on GMO release would affect only a very small part of New
Zealand’s biological research effort...More
17 July 2002 - NZ
Could be Targeted for High Risk GMO Testing
New Zealand will need to change
its liability laws if it is to avoid being targeted by developers
of more risky GMOs...More
7 July 2002 - Europe Sets the Standard
for GM Liability Law
Attorney General Margaret Wilson
is expected to respond today to requests for release of the
Law Commission report on GM liability...More
4 July 2002 - GM
release five times riskier for New Zealand.
New Zealand would be taking a
much greater gamble than other nations if it adopted GM agriculture...
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3 July 2002 - Address by
the Chair Sir Peter Elworthy
Welcome to the launch
of the Sustainability Council of New Zealand.
With me today are my fellow Councilors: Dame Susan Devoy,
Professor Garth Cooper, Annabel Langbein, and the Council's
Executive Director Simon Terry.The fifth member of the Council,
Sam Neill, apologises that he is unable to be with us due
to filming
commitments but we will later play a prerecorded statement
from him.
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3 July 2002 - Call
for Five Year Moratorium on GMO Release
Five eminent New Zealanders
called for a five-year moratorium on the release of genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) at today’s launch of the Sustainability
Council of New Zealand. More
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