SHELL RESISTS SOUTH AFRICA FRACKING MORATORIUM
May 1st, 2011
BY BILL CORCORAN
INTERNATIONAL petroleum group Shell says it remains committed to continuing seeking permission for shale gas mining in South Africa's Karoo desert, despite the government placing a moratorium on all fracking applications in the area. The country's minerals minister Susan Shabangu revealed late April her department had halted both existing and new fracking bids until the technique, used to extract gas from deep underground, had been studied. "Until the conclusion of a feasibility study no new applications will be accepted, nor would ...
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