About 3 000 people marched on Saturday to call for a end in Quebec to shale gas exploitation and a technique known as fracking.
The New York State Assembly on Monday passed a one-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing due to concerns that it might pollute drinking water.
The Advertising Standards Authority are investigating Royal Dutch Shell adverts about hydraulic fracturing, the Treasure Karoo Action Group has said.
Fracking in the Karoo has opened up deep divisions despite the government’s moratorium on all prospecting, pending an investigation into its impact.
Methane leaks are contaminating drinking water near fracking sites in the eastern United States, raising further questions over shale gas drilling.
Shell is creating the wrong impression by saying shale gas mining is good for South Africa, the Treasure Karoo Action Group said on Tuesday.
All of us in the green movement are lost before the planet’s real nightmare: not too little fossil fuel — but too much.
Minister Susan Shabangu has halted all applications for licences to prospect for shale gas in the Karoo using the hydraulic-fracturing method.
Agri SA has welcomed the government’s decision to place a moratorium on licences for shale gas development through hydraulic fracturing in the Karoo.
Apple and Samsung go head-to-head and the SA government calls off fracking.
Sitting atop a vast deposit of natural gas, Pennsylvania knows how lucrative — and dangerous — this rapidly expanding industry is.
Stage set for showdown over ‘misleading, biased, unprocedural and unconstitutional’ application.
The Karoo could solve South Africa’s energy problems — but only through an extraction process called fracking that has greens seeing red.
Shell South Africa’s exploration for shale gas in the Karoo will use a safe technique not known to harm the environment, a senior executive said.
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/ 1 February 2011
A controversial application by oil giant Shell to explore for gas in an area of the Karoo should be put on hold, the DA says.