Seismic surveys involves blasting airguns to create shockwaves that can move through hundreds of kilometres of ocean, with a possible negative impact on marine wildlife.
Like stepping onto mars, everything on the road into Saldanha is red – trees, buildings, bushes, even some seagulls. Ominously called ‘the red dust’, this iron ore residue mined elsewhere is transported by train into Saldanha Port.
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Two environmental groups are taking government to court after it recently granted TotalEnergies authorisation for exploratory drilling in the ocean between Cape Town and Cape Agulhas.