Environment

Damning report on Eskom air pollution

Coal-fired plants breached legal emission levels 3,200 times in 21 months

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News | 26 February 2019

Wastewater audit missing as countrywide water shortage looms

After reports were sent to cabinet, water test results have not been released for five years

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Feature | 25 February 2019

Nasty chemicals are accumulating on Cape Town’s coasts

Drugs, flushed through the sewage system, are ending up in sea-life.

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News | 12 February 2019

City fails to publish water quality tests for two years

Public cannot assess effects of sewage disposal in sea

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News | 11 February 2019

West Coast mining company fined a “pittance”

Mineral Sands Resources fined R1.25 million for unlawful activities in Lutzville

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News | 6 February 2019

New blow for would-be Mpumalanga coal miner

Surprise move by MEC for Environmental Affairs Vusi Shongwe

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News | 29 January 2019

Court refuses appeal on Mpumalanga coal mine

Company’s bid for permission to mine in protected area blocked

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News | 23 January 2019

Court hears objections to new N2 highway

New Wild Coast route shortens road by 75km but passes through ancestral land

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News | 4 December 2018

Activists lose bid to stop coal mine

Interdict application to halt operations at the Somkhele coal mine thrown out with costs

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Law | 21 November 2018

Major precedent set for communities affected by mining

Constitutional Court judge quotes Fanon: to “strip someone of their source of livelihood, then you strip them of their dignity too”

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News | 26 October 2018

Court drama as state tries to force through coal mining plan

Last minute bid to change boundaries of Mpumalanga protected area

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News | 17 October 2018

Meeting on gas and oil exploration descends into chaos

Activists oppose Italian company prospecting off KZN coast

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News | 15 October 2018

Damage to West Coast beaches from mining can be kept to “acceptable” levels, say consultants

Australian company tries again to get approval for huge expansion project

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News | 25 September 2018

Scientists step up demand for government to protect oceans

Environmental Affairs commitment to declare 21 new protected areas has stalled

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News | 14 September 2018

Independence of environmental consultant under the spotlight

Conservationist argues that Adriaan du Toit did not meet statutory requirements for independence

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News | 13 July 2018

Western Cape opposes national government’s mining rights approval

Department of Mineral Resources approved Australian company’s application to do mineral prospecting on northern bank of Olifants River estuary

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News | 3 July 2018