Shell on Tuesday morning suspended its seismic exploration of the Eastern Cape coastline after a judgment interdicting it from proceeding with its controversial operation. Environmentalists, fisher folk, Wild Coast communities, NGOs and tourism operators celebrated judge Gerald Bloem’s decision to urgently interdict Shell from proceeding with the survey.
Shell on Tuesday morning suspended its seismic exploration of the Eastern Cape coastline after a judgment interdicting it from proceeding with its controversial operation. Environmentalists, fisher folk, Wild Coast communities, NGOs and tourism operators celebrated judge Gerald Bloem’s decision to urgently interdict Shell from proceeding with the survey.
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Shell’s seismic exploration off the ecologically sensitive Wild Coast will go ahead after four organisations lost their high court application for an interdict on Friday.
Shell’s seismic exploration off the ecologically sensitive Wild Coast will now go ahead after four organisations yesterday lost their high court bid to interdict it from doing so. Shell had within an hour of the judgment updated its website to indicate that the legal challenge against its seismic survey had failed, “allowing the seismic survey to proceed”.