The public review period for the Draft Scoping Report will close on Friday 3 February 2023. A Non-Technical Summary of the Draft Scoping Report is available here in English, isiXhosa, and Afrikaans. The Production Right Application Area is approximately 100 km offshore and extends between Mossel Bay and Cape Saint Francis. TEEPSA is planning to develop the gas resources … [Read more...]
A spanner in the works for Tendele mining
The Pretoria High Court condemned Tendele’s 2013 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process in its recent judgment on 4 May 2022 because: “The defective public notices issued by Tendele during September 2013 were only a precursor to the scoping phase, where the wheels came off. The wheels came off when the regional manager DMR, KwaZulu-Natal (RM), allowed Tendele’s … [Read more...]
Civil society calls for enhanced public participation
Non-profit organisation Natural Justice in January submitted comments to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) on the Gas Master Plan Basecase Report, which was released for public comment on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, and developed as a policy instrument for South Africa with the purpose of guiding gas development in the country. The organisation's … [Read more...]
Fishing communities respond to Karpowership SA appeal
On 16 August 2021, the Green Connection submitted its response to the appeal – by Karpowership SA, and others – against the decision by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE) to refuse environmental authorisations for the floating power plants (FPPs). Small-scale fishers from the West Coast and other stakeholders are also sending responses to … [Read more...]
