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Communities continue to speak out against proposed gas plans

January 23, 2022 Leave a Comment

Since late-November 2021, following the overwhelming public outcry against Shell’s planned seismic surveys on the precious Wild Coast South Africans have awoken to the fact that government intends to search for and extract any remaining oil and gas reserves, which comes at the cost of the livelihoods of those who depend on the ocean, and the land. This week, the Department … [Read more...]

Lawsuit to protect polar bears from Arctic oil exploration

December 24, 2021 Leave a Comment

The Center For Biological Diversity has filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management for failing to protect imperilled polar bears from an oil exploration project in the Western Arctic. “Every new oil well in the Arctic is another step toward the polar bear’s extinction,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at … [Read more...]

Climbing the ladder of awareness

September 29, 2021 Leave a Comment

When it comes to our understanding of the unfolding global crisis, each of us seems to fit somewhere along a continuum of awareness that can be roughly divided into five stages: 1. Dead asleep At this stage there seem to be no fundamental problems, just some shortcomings in human organization, behaviour and morality that can be fixed with the proper attention to … [Read more...]

Greenpeace Africa responds to Congo oil block cancellation

August 4, 2021 Leave a Comment

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has decided to remove Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the List of World Heritage in Danger. The decision follows clarification “provided by the national authorities that the oil concessions overlapping with the property are null and void and that these blocks will be excluded from future … [Read more...]

Additional offshore drilling plans for Mossel Bay on hold

April 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

The Green Connection and its partners – small-scale subsistence fishers from around the country – have welcomed TOTAL E & P South Africa B.V’s announcement that it will postpone their application for additional drilling and associated activities in Block 11B/12B off South Africa’s south coast. The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) process has also been … [Read more...]

Extinction Rebellion condemns East African crude oil pipeline

October 26, 2020 Leave a Comment

Extinction Rebellion South Africa calls for all environmentally and socially conscious people to close their accounts with Standard Bank South Africa, and move them to a bank that treats the climate and ecological crisis with the urgency it deserves. Standard Bank, Africa’s biggest lender, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) of Japan are reportedly about to … [Read more...]

Help stop the controversial African crude oil pipeline

September 9, 2020 Leave a Comment

Oil giant Total is about to build the biggest heated oil pipeline in the world - right through the heart of Africa! It will rip through some of the most important elephant, lion and chimpanzee reserves on Earth, displace tens of thousands of families, and tip the whole planet closer to full-blown climate catastrophe. Local communities are doing all they can to fight the … [Read more...]

Calling on banks to stop funding East African oil pipeline

August 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

Standard Bank, Africa’s biggest lender, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) of Japan are reportedly about to finance a 1,443-kilometer crude oil pipeline through Uganda and Tanzania. If built, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) would be the longest heated crude oil pipeline in the world. Extinction Rebellion SA condemns the pipeline project and will take … [Read more...]

North Sea methane leak caused by oil industry blow-out

August 18, 2020 2 Comments

Activists on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza documented a large methane leak located in the British exclusive economic zone in the North Sea. Using an ROV (Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle), they were able to film two of the gas-emitting craters at about 100m water depth on the seafloor (at positions 57°55.30’N, 001°37.87’E and 57°54.81’N, 001°38.72’E), which are … [Read more...]

Civil society calls for protection of the Congo Basin peatlands

June 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

In a petition addressed to Multilateral Development Banks, Member States of the African Union, Member States of the United Nations, and donor countries and partners of the Central African Forest Initiative, the African Climate Reality Project is calling for world leaders to save the Congo basin peatlands from oil exploration and corruption. The Congo Basin, home to the … [Read more...]

Fossil fuel phase-out: It’s time to say it loud and clear

May 5, 2020 Leave a Comment

Mixed signals about the future of fossil fuels are delaying climate action. The energy transition - and our planet - depends on absolute clarity, writes WWF's Jesse Fahnestock. The past weeks have seen the publication of the Global Renewables Outlook from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), as well as a variety of articles discussing how historically low oil … [Read more...]

Which party to vote for our children?

February 27, 2019 Leave a Comment

Our short month ends with political parties’ manifestos being published for all to see. First thing I look for has to be how will they preserve our habitat so that our and all children can make a future here? No matter how much the focus zones into other matters, if we don’t have sufficient and clean water, food and renewable energy all that talk will be wasted, for we … [Read more...]

Coalition calls on AfDB to commit to 100% renewable future

November 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

In a bid to have Africa commit to 100% renewable energy and to increase transparency in the continent’s energy sector, Zero – a coalition campaign between climate change volunteers and Non-Profit Organisations (NGOs) around the continent – was launched yesterday on the side-lines of the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg, South … [Read more...]

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Decommissioning of coal-fired power plants needed

Concerns surrounding a global climate emergency have brought into sharp focus the need to mobilize increased investment flows towards clean energy. Such flows are needed to fund incremental power g…

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SA Youth Say, “It is Time to Put Mother Earth on A Carbon Diet”

Barely two weeks after the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) visited KwaZulu-Natal to engage communities on climate change and the just transition, the province was hit with the worst floods we…

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CLEAN ENERGY: While South Africans endure load shedding, government launches 147MW Roggeveld wind farm

Eskom will be the primary purchaser of power generated by the wind farm, which independent power producer Red Rocket says will generate enough energy to ‘satisfy the energy needs of roughly 49,200 households every year’.

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ISSUES AT STAKE: SA's human-wildlife conflict needs urgent attention from authorities | Zululand Observer

The recent migration of 11 elephants from Mozambique to South Africa has highlighted our country’s concerning human-wildlife conflict issues, writes TAMLYN HEAD

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Vodacom promises to up spending on renewable energy

Vodacom South Africa will buy much more of the electricity it needs for its operations from renewable energy sources within the next three years.

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