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Shell plans to mine for shale gas in the Karoo, using a technique known as “fracking”. It refers to the method of rupturing rock by forcing high pressure liquid into underground rock formations to liberate and collect otherwise inaccessible pockets of gas. It has a number of very serious negative consequences such as wide spread water pollution, soil pollution, detrimental human and animal health effects and air pollution. In the US fracking has been used with devastating results, many many people have gotten seriously ill, the water in some places has become so toxic you can set fire to the water coming out of the tap, the effects are shocking and scary. Plus they will need millions of litres of water (as much as 20 million litres per well at a time) to operate the wells. The SA government owns all rights to minerals and gas underground and only them and Shell will benefit from the mining. Shell is in the process of applying for a license, there is a very real chance that they will be awarded the license. There are about 20 days set aside for public participation (which is now), please consider signing the petition and sending an email, your voice really is needed as there needs to be a MASSIVE public outcry for the regulator not to award Shell the license. Petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/295/—if-gte-mso-9xml-wworddocument-wviewnormalwview-wzoom0wzoom-wpunctuationkerning/ Email the decision makers: http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/getinvolved/Stop-Fracking-in-the-Karooder-/ Thanks everybody! Please also considering forwarding on to your friends. Also, check out “Gasland” for a documentary on what has happened in USA with Fracking.
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