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A judicial review heard in the Western Cape high court this week has questioned the environmental authorisation process for TotalEnergies’ offshore oil and gas exploration rights between Cape Town and Cape Agulhas.
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Court case challenges SA’s approval of offshore drilling by TotalEnergies

Oil spill risks and climate concerns have sparked legal action against the government and the global energy company

The mining industry has the potential to grow if there is more investment in exploration projects. (Michele Spatari/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Mining has life, in spite of hitches

The industry has the potential to grow if there is more investment in exploration projects

Let the people judge: Activists march from Hanover Street in Cape Town to parliament demanding that the government respond to the climate crisis and their environmental rights are not trampled by multinational corporations’ gas and oil explorations. Photo: Jaco Marais/Gallo Images

Don’t ignore people in oil, gas surveys

It is evident that the country needs a reworked mining and environmental management regulation framework

Sea change: Climate activists bearing anti-TotalEneergies placards (above) picket in Cape Town. Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy (left) has released her department’s draft offshore oil and gas sector plan. (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images & Islam Safwat/Getty Images)

TotalEnergies gets green light to drill for oil, gas on Cape West Coast

Civil society organisations say the decision comes as a disappointment

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo

Attacks on Mantashe are by people in renewable energy lobby

I believe that load-shedding may have been created in an effort to spark an energy crisis and enrage the populace

Only 40% of applicants to the Petroleum Agency of South Africa’s skills development trust for 2022 were women. (CRISTINA ALDEHUELA/AFP via Getty Images)

Local energy sector still has too few women participants, says petroleum agency

Only 40% of applicants to the Petroleum Agency of South Africa’s skills development trust for 2022 were women. But the agency’s chief executive says it is trying to offer them…

Environmental Affairs Minister Barbara Creecy. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Creecy okays drilling off KwaZulu-Natal coast

Despite dozens of appeals, the South African government is determined to give Sasol and its partners the go-ahead. But activists will not stop the fight