On 17 May 2024, Wild Coast communities and supporting organisations will be in the Supreme Court of Appeal to defend the groundbreaking High Court judgment which set aside Shell's exploration right to explore for oil and gas off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
On 17 May 2024, Wild Coast communities and supporting organisations will be in the Supreme Court of Appeal to defend the The court case was brought in December 2021 by Sustaining the Wild Coast NPC, Wild Coast communities, Wild Coast small-scale fishers and All Rise Attorneys for Climate and the Environment NPC, represented by the Legal Resources Centre and Richard Spoor Incorporated.
The decision-makers failed to consider the potential harm to the fishers' livelihoods, the impact on their cultural and spiritual rights and the contribution of oil and gas exploitation to climate change. In relation to climate change as well as the issues of the right to food, the judges found that, had the DMRE taken these issues into account, they may have found that the project was"neither needed nor desirable".
They argue that the public had been properly notified of the decision to grant the exploration right and that the court should not have allowed the decision to be challenged so long after it was made.
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