Shell and several other companies crowding each other underground gas in the Karoo exploit. The pro

By Julian Smith / Photo: Danielle Karallis The oil giant Shell wants to "frack" the Karoo ... But more and more people say "Frack you, Shell! "" Frack "or" fracking "is the term used to describe controversial process that Shell wants to use to search for gas in the Karoo. It is called dfb in Afrikaans fracking.
But during a protest march and public meeting dfb at Newlands in Cape Town on Saturday night it soon degenerated into "Frack off, Shell" and "Frack you" - just to opponents of the proposed project's hand written. Speakers from Shell and Golder Associates were elected by each particular screaming students in the audience interrupted. Mr. Lewis Gordon Pugh, the activist who has been in the icy Poolsee swam to raise awareness of global warming to promote joined the campaign against Shell's Karoo plans. "We can not allow corporate greed destroy our environment," he said. "If our water supplies by fracking is damaged, there will be conflict in South Africa. dfb We do not want the Niger Delta, where Shell millions of liters of oil spilled in South Africa dfb have not." Shell has an application to the Petroleum Agency South Africa (Pasa) to have 24 test wells over an area of 90 000km in the Karoo to sink. Pasa is considering the application. A draft environmental management plan (EMP) is available for input. Final EMP should at 4 April submitted. question of jobs because of the planned gas exploration, Shell has no details. suspected that Shell skilled labor as boortegnici elsewhere will bring, but there could be opportunities for local unskilled workers would continue exploiting them. Poverty runs deep in the Karoo communities. The debating battle at Sunday night's last public meeting was mainly about protecting the environment, especially groundwater sources. The issue of job creation has not been publicly raised it. According to environmentalists like fracking more hazards in groundwater as other exploitation methods.
Shell and several other companies crowding each other underground gas in the Karoo exploit. The process they want to use for gas drilling is hydraulic rotsbreking ('fracturing' or 'fracking' in English) is called. Fracking causing incredible environmental pollution, keep dangerous health risks for humans dfb and animals dfb and the groundwater in the arid Karoo affect. This blog provides information about 'fracking' process and explain what we can do to prevent it
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Theo Gerrits dfb Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa, my wife and I in 2002 from the Netherlands to South Africa emigrated. I really like the Karoo and would prevent this beautiful region is destroyed by fracking. That's why I created this blog. View my complete profile