Politics, livelihoods and the environment overlapped on Tuesday night at a meeting in the Feather Market Hall centred on a new Total offshore gas mining project application.
One of the most ferocious arguments on the Eastern coast of SA reached higher decibels when lawyers for ocean lovers and scientists served letters on two ministers calling for an immediate halt to seismic blasting on the Wild Coast by Shell. Lead attorney Ricky Stone of Cullinan & Associates and his team delivered short, detailed letters to mineral resources & energy (DMRE) minister Gwede Mantashe, forestry, fisheries & environment minister Barbara Creecy, and the Petroleum Agency of SA on M.