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Wat behels Skaliegasontginning?
(Opinion piece on shalegas development and hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) written for Beeld Newspaper, 27 March 2011) ‘n Tegniek bekend as hidrobreking word gebruik vir die ekonomiese ontginning van skaliegas. Hidrobreking is nie – soos die bemarkingsdokumente verkondig – ‘n “beproefde proses wat oor 60 jaar in duisende gate getoets is” nie. Dit is nuwe, ongetoetsde tegnologie, en in plekke waar dit reeds geïmplementeer is, het dit tot groot omgewingsskade, veral waterbesoedeling,
The water warriors
The inconvenient truths about our polluted water supplies aren’t going unchallenged — at least not by these activists. The principled insider Carin Bosman worked for the Department of Water Affairs both before and after 1994 and has the unassailable distinction of having pissed off people on both sides of that political divide. As an independent consultant these days, her technical knowledge, coupled with her managerial ability and first-hand experience of