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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
An environmental group in South Africa has threatened to initiate legal proceedings to block the government’s plans to grant shale gas exploration licenses in the Karoo region in order to prevent the much opposed fracking technology from being utilized. Treasure the Karoo Action Group, or TKAG, said the regulatory process behind the country’s fracking laws were marked by “patent ineptitude..
Earlier this year the government said fracking would be allowed within the “framework of our good environmental laws” although those laws have yet to be published despite being scheduled for release in May.
Environmental groups against fracking said that the government would be unable to enforce whatever laws were put in place and have accused energy companies of already drawing up non-viable environmental plans and failing to consult communities and landowners. “The environmental management plans are fatally flawed,” Jonathan Deal, head TKAG, told a news conference. “The state is not ready to manage either exploration or production.”
TKAG says that if the government fails to heed its call for a moratorium on exploration licenses within 30 days it will seek a pre-emptive injunction blocking them and was prepared to go to the Constitutional Court.
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