Demolition sticker outrage

This article appeared in the Mercury on Tuesday 28 April, 2015 By Tony Carnie RURAL villagers on the boundary of Africa’s oldest wilderness area are outraged after finding “demolition stickers” on their front doors - apparently placed there by a mining company that wants to dynamite giant coal pits underneath…

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GET’s Response to the Acceptance of the Final Scoping Report for Fuleni

By Sheila Berry Registered stakeholders received notification on Friday, 17 April 2015, from Lizinda Dickson of Naledi Development Restructured (Pty) Ltd that the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA) has accepted the amended Final Scoping Report for the Fuleni open cast coal mine on the edge of…

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Coal mine scoping report ‘inadequate’

This article appeared in the Mercury on Thursday, 9 April 2015 By Tony Carnie LAWYERS have urged government regulators to reject the latest “hopelessly inadequate� environmental scoping report to mine coal on the border of the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. Environmental law specialist Kirsten Youens said an amended scoping report published last…

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