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South Africa: Fracking out in the open at last
Posted by Mail and Guardian: None Given on May 15th, 2015
Mail and Guardian: The strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of shale gas development has to be completed in two years – before exploration for the energy source begins in earnest, assessment leader Professor Bob Scholes said this week.
The government`s shale gas interdepartmental task team on Tuesday launched the SEA, calling it a "science-based assessment to improve our understanding of the risks and opportunities of shale gas development".
In his budget speech in February, the minister of finance, Nhlanhla...
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Climate change and Africa’s vanishing lake
Posted by Mail and Guardian: None Given on February 15th, 2011
Mail and Guardian: Five-year-old Fatime Owye's emaciated body evokes memories of famines such as those in 1980s Ethiopia.
But Fatime and 4,3-million other children who are suffering from chronic malnutrition are victims of a more permanent crisis -- the disappearance of Lake Chad.
As South Africa prepares to host the United Nations climate change summit in Durban this year, Lake Chad is living proof of the continent's environment in crisis. It was almost double the area of Gauteng just four decades ago but has...