The fall of the wild?
‘Pull back!’ Ezemvelo’s plea to coal mining company
This Article appeared in the Mercury on Tuesday, 27 May. By Tony Carnie “Some places are sacrosanct - so please pull back and think again!” This is the plea to a mining company from KwaZulu-Natal’s official guardian of the province’s wild spaces. Responding to plans to set up an open-cast…
Ian McCallum, a letter.
By Ian McCallum This letter is an appeal to the sanity and wisdom of the national government and to Ibutho Coal (Pty) Ltd. Thank you for the informative and chilling report on the proposed Ibutho coal mining venture on the southern border of the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi national park. The southern section…
Save our Wilderness information event at Howick, KZN
Sheila Berry of the Wilderness Alliance and Sifiso Dladla of MACUA (Mining Affected Community United in Action ), will be speaking at Dovehouse Organic Farm outside Howick , on Thursday, 29 May, 17:30. This event has been kindly organised by Verdant Life and hosted by Dovehouse Organics Bring your own…
Call for names of those eyeing coal mining near game park
This article appeared in the Mercury on 14 May 2014 By Tony Carnie The names of all the companies, directors and shareholders who hoped to profit from a coal-mining venture on the fence-line of Imfolozi game reserve must be disclosed immediately, anti-mining campaigners demanded yesterday. Junior mining company Ibutho Coal…