Drilling for oil exploration, as well as human-caused climate change leading to more erratic rainfall patterns and water abstraction and diversion for development and commercial agriculture, has altered the landscape that Kgetho, and so many other people and wildlife species, rely on.
A planned hearing by Namibia's environment ministry will consider revoking the drilling license of Canadian oil and gas firm Reconnaissance Energy. Local communities and environmental groups claimed that land was bulldozed and cut through, damaging lands and polluting water sources, without the permission of local communities.
The statement went on to say that it has held over 700 community consultations in Namibia and will continue to engage with communities in the country and in Botswana. The court previously threw out the urgent appeal made by local people to stop the Canadian firm's drilling activities. It's now deciding whether the government's legal feels should be covered by the plaintiffs or waived. A new date for the decision is set for May.
In the Cuvette-Centrale basin in Congo, a dense and ecologically thriving forest that's home to the largest population of lowland gorillas, sections of the peatlands -- the continent's largest -- went up for oil and gas auction last year. Sechrest added that "local communities are going to bear the heaviest costs of oil exploration" and "deserve to be properly consulted about any extractive industry projects, including the many likely environmental damages, and decide if those projects are acceptable to them."
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