The Citizen: Fracking – the Final Frontier

While this week’s announcement of a panel called the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for Shale Gas Development to investigate fracking in the Karoo was for the most part widely welcomed, there is a small problem for some.

And this exploration of the “special place that must be respected – socially and environmentally” according to Royal Dutch Shell, will continue. “We already do an environmental impact assessment before we start drilling any wells so this is basically augment what is proposed by the government,” says Jan-Willem Eggink, Upstream General Manager of Shell South Africa.

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