Africa Oil Week panelists discuss opposition to oil and gas at Africa Oil Week.
Opposition to oil and gas exploration was at the forefront of discussions at Africa Oil Week in Cape Town on Tuesday, with government agencies arguing that processes should be put in place to deal with challenges faster.
“It becomes important for us to find ways to speed up the resolution of whatever conflict we might have on the legal front with the NGOs,” he said. Mokoka suggested that a tribunal or court should be set up to deal with these cases.Earlier this month, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy rejected appeals to block TotalEnergies’ application to drill for gas and oil over 10 000 square kilometres off the West Coast between Cape Town and Cape Agulhas.
TotalEnergies has other oil and gas projects currently in the pipeline but not yet finalised, such as the West Coast’s Deep Water Orange Basin and the Cape South Coast. GroundUp has reported that fishers on the West Coast are worried that this project will destroy their livelihoods. Sayidini suggested that a proper and robust “climate change impact assessment” could be added to the requirements.
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