Environment

Go-ahead for mining on ten West Coast beaches

Environment minister rejects most of the appeals against Tormin expansion plans

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News | 1 April 2020

Academics raise alarm over by-law restricting water testing

The City says research in its nature reserves is allowed but only with permission

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News | 26 March 2020

Pensioner helps himself and his neighbourhood by recycling from illegal dumps

“The illegal dumping sites are a nuisance to our health and to the environment,” says PE resident Ntsokolo Konzapi

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Brief | 13 March 2020

Gamtoos Irrigation Board office shut down by angry contractors

Workers want the municipality to take over the project

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News | 11 March 2020

New twist in Noordhoek wetland road controversy

Independence of environmental consultants questioned in appeals against recent approval of the project

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News | 3 March 2020

Tragic landfill conflict fouls Cape Town’s air

Security guard murdered, dumpsite set on fire

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News | 27 February 2020

Small organisation fights pollution in Cape Town rivers

New app for short-term cleaning contracts to be released in April

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Brief | 25 February 2020

Province raps City’s knuckles over state of rivers

Water quality results “disturbing” says MEC

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News | 20 February 2020

Court blocks development on Cape Flats Aquifer

City of Cape Town and provincial government told to consider new evidence

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News | 19 February 2020

Wind farm says massive new rival could cost it “hundreds of millions” in lost energy

Existing West Coast One wind farm wants recent approval for upwind Boulders project to be reviewed, because it will “reduce its access to the wind”

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News | 18 February 2020

Raw sewage flows into Sundays River, possibly for years already

Municipality says mechanical and electrical failure causing spillage

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News | 17 February 2020

Schools threaten legal action over “dump”

“The Pietermaritzburg landfill could be an economic opportunity instead of an environmental nightmare”

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News | 10 February 2020

Sick Durban river spoils popular recreational lagoon

Civil action could address pollution in Mdloti river

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News | 3 February 2020

Activists call for government to declare climate emergency

Protesters inspired by Greta Thunberg

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News | 31 January 2020

We don’t need coal, say protesters at coal conference

Extinction Rebellion calls for the use of solar, wind and tidal power

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Brief | 30 January 2020

West Coast property owners could be ordered to demolish their houses

Provincial government warns owners about building too close to the sea

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News | 28 January 2020