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A woman waves a Canadian flag during the Convoy for Canada protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on February 19, 2019. – A convoy of big trucks from Canada’s oil producing regions rolled into the capital Tuesday as hundreds of people including “yellow vest” activists rallied in protest at government curbs on pipeline construction. Parked outside parliament, they honked horns and waved placards reading “Canadians need pipelines and good paying jobs,” as they pressed for new regulations allowing the industry to expand.”This country was built on natural resources,” Ottawa area farmer and former politician Jack MacLaren told a cheering crowd. (LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images)
BOTSWANA

Canada’s flag flutters over crude oil exploration in the Namibia, Botswana Kavango Basin

The oil and gas lies under wild and beautiful land that is critical for providing millions of people with drinking water and livelihoods, and is home to endangered wildlife

  • Tzeporah Berman and Ina-Maria Shikongo
6 min read
ANDY GHEORGIOU

Pursuing fossil fuels in Kavango Basin a ‘stupid bet’

Opponents also label Canadian oil and gas company’s announcement of working petroleum system in Namibia as premature

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read
ANGLICAN CHURCH

Stop oil and gas drilling in Namibia’s Kavango Basin immediately — Anglican Church

Thirty-four bishops and three archbishops decry exploratory drilling as a ‘sin’ against the Earth

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
ABANDONED WELLS

Keep fracking out of the Kalahari Desert’s Kavango Basin – activists

Civil society groups have called on Namibia’s agriculture, water and forestry minister to immediately stop a Canadian company from prospecting

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
BENCHMARKS FOUNDATION

Okavango Delta under threat from oil, gas exploration

San leaders decry Canadian “climate-wrecking” oil and gas project in Namibia, Botswana

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read