Meeting on gas and oil exploration descends into chaos (GroundUp)
Activists oppose Italian company prospecting off KZN coast
Activists from the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance and the Oceans Not Oil alliance are voicing strong objections to an Italian company’s plans to explore for gas and oil reserves off the KwaZulu-Natal coastline. Photo supplied by Oceans not Oil
Plans to prospect for gas and oil off KwaZulu-Natal’s coast came under fire at public hearings last week. In Durban it got rowdy with people chanting, “Go back to Italy” and “No Oil or Gas”. People who wanted to discuss the draft environmental impact assessment (EIA), commissioned by Eni, the Rome-based multinational, were frustrated.