During a new UK House of Commons inquiry into British South Pole interests, a leading academic has told MPs that Russian oil and gas surveys via Cape Town may raise questions about the vulnerable region’s future.
The countdown has begun for Searcher Geodata to begin its seismic survey for oil and gas reserves off South Africa’s West Coast in January. Cape Town paddlers took to the sea to protest at the arrival of the seismic survey ship.
‘We are gathered here today to join, in holy matrimony, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy with her one true love, Big Oil, while her jilted lover, Planet Earth cries silently.’ This was the troth plighted outside the venue of Africa Oil Week in Cape Town on Thursday.