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Saldanha Bay community concerned over proposed project
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Cape Town - Concerns are being expressed by a sustainability organisation about the lack of public participation from the Saldanha Bay community when it comes to approving projects.
The non-profit organisation known as Green Connection made its submission into the Draft Scoping Report for the Assegai (Pty) Ltd Proposed Gas-to-Power Project in Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape last week.
The intended purpose of developing a gas-to-power facility for the generation of 150MW of electricity would serve as the required fuel that would be transported via a pipeline from the Port of Saldanha.
First published in Daily Maverick 168 newspaper
The NSPCA referred the camel cruelty matter to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) but it refused to prosecute. It also ruled that the NSPCA had no right to conduct a private prosecution. The association took it to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), which also knocked down the right to prosecute.
With the bit in its teeth, the NSPCA approached the Constitutional Court and the result was to change the future of animal welfare in South Africa.
The cruelty issue was parked pending a protracted legal wrangle about who had the right to prosecute. Both the NPA and SCA had blocked the NSPCA from proceeding, saying that, in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act, no juristic person was entitled to undertake a private prosecution. (A juristic person is not a natural person but is deemed in law to have such rights.)