The Makhanda high court last week put the final nail in the coffin of the aspirations of two powerful companies to seismically blast the diverse and ecologically sensitive Wild Coast in their hunt for oil and gas. It set aside the exploration licence, and subsequent renewals of that licence, which gave international oil and gas giant Shell and its local partner, Impact Africa, permission to conduct the potentially environmentally devastating hunt for fossil fuels along the Wild Coast.
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If Shell survives this week’s application for an interdict to stop its seismic exploration of the ocean off the Wild Coast, there are three more organisations and several Wild Coast communities waiting in line to halt the fossil fuel giant’s search for gas and oil.
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