Members of the public have until the end of Friday to register their comments in terms of the scoping assessment of Total’s application to mine a block of seabed offshore between Mossel Bay and Cape St Francis for gas.
From Essexvale to Markman, Nelson Mandela Bay’s sewerage system is on the verge of collapse as cable theft, vandalism and load-shedding mesh with decades of poor maintenance in a perfect storm.
The Coega Development Corporation has been awarded a key permit from the department of forestry, fisheries and the environment which will allow it to push forward with three projects centred on energy, aquaculture and water.
Environmental and social activists have welcomed the latest broadside fired by environment minister Barbara Creecy at the controversial Karpowership floating power proposal, but have questioned why she did not finish the job.
In a low-key meeting, members of environmental and community organisations gathered on the Donkin Reserve in Gqeberha on Wednesday to discuss “what’s next” after two bruising days in the high court in Gqeberha battling to stop Shell’s Wild Coast seismic survey application.