Press Release – Greenpeace“There can be no more dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency,” says Appelbe. Greenpeace installed the modified Fonterra sign saying that there can be no new dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency. The nitrate emergency starts here – on Fonterra dairy farms just like this one, that contaminate drinking water with cow urine and fertiliser runoff. “There can be no more dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency,” says Appelbe. “Environment Canterbury has declared a nitrate emergency, but there is so much more to do.