Seismic Judgment - Court Overturns Exploration Rights... GroundUp_News: SouthAfrica
The High Court has ruled that the exploration rights granted to Impact Africa and Shell along the Wild Coast were unlawful.
The rights, extended twice between 2014 and 2021, included permission for what became a controversial seismic survey, which was stopped by an interdict granted in December last year at the behest of Wild Coast communities and civil society organisations who complained of the damaging impact of the survey and that they had not been properly consulted.
He said it was common cause that Impact Africa and Shell had not secured environmental authorisation to undertake the survey in terms of the National Environmental Management Act. The applicants also submitted that the area deserved a"particularly high level of protection", given its ecological value and the presence of critically endangered, threatened and protected species.
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