Tag: offshore drilling

    • Offshore Drilling a Threat to our Environment

      Offshore Drilling Fraught with Risk
      Offshore Drilling is a Threat to our environment

      After many months of seismic testing along our Southern African coastline, Total (the French owned oil giant) announced in early February the discovery of a vast reserve of natural gas located under the sea bed of the Outeniqua Basin, about 175 km off our Southern Cape coast. This means that at some point in the […]

    • Seismic Testing gets the Green Light

      A prelude to offshore drilling.

      As if the effects of overfishing, coral bleaching, rising sea temperatures and plastic pollution were not devastating enough for our ailing marine environment, our oceans face yet another worrying threat – that of deafening noise! In the last century, human activity has increased so dramatically across the world’s oceans that we have fundamentally altered the […]