{"id":34494,"date":"2021-07-28T13:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/greenpeace-criticises-new-zealand-rugby-deal-with-petrochemical-company-ineos"},"modified":"2021-07-28T13:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:20:42","slug":"greenpeace-criticises-new-zealand-rugby-deal-with-petrochemical-company-ineos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34494","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace criticises New Zealand Rugby deal with petrochemical company Ineos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ineos has been accused of using sports to \u2018greenwash\u2019 its reputation<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Rugby\u2019s decision to sign a six-year deal with global petrochemical company Ineos has been criticised by Greenpeace, who said it fundamentally goes against the country\u2019s \u201cclean, green\u201d values.<\/p>\n<p>NZ Rugby announced the company will become the official performance partner for its seven teams from 2022. Ineos is a UK oil, gas and petrochemical conglomerate \u2013 the third largest company of its kind in the world. Its main shareholder is billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, and the company has lobbied to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/apr\/03\/ineos-leads-lobbying-effort-to-get-out-of-paying-green-tax\">weaken green taxes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/feb\/04\/ineos-chairman-jim-ratcliffe-criticises-government-fracking-policies\">reduce restrictions on fracking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/greenpeace-criticises-new-zealand-rugby-deal-with-petrochemical-company-ineos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ineos has been accused of using sports to \u2018greenwash\u2019 its reputationNew Zealand Rugby\u2019s decision to sign a six-year deal with global petrochemical company Ineos has been criticised by Greenpeace, who said it fundamentally goes against the country\u2019s \u201ccl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34495,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494\/revisions\/34495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}