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ConCourt to hear case around Shell’s gas seismic surveys off the Wild Coast [SOUND]

# Communities from the Wild Coast will square off against Shell, Impact Africa, and the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in the Constitutional Court today. The case is around the gas seismic surveys off the Wild Coast and oil exploration rights, granted to Shell and Impact Africa in 2014. At stake is whether the Supreme Court of Appeal’s decision to suspend a ruling invalidating Shell’s exploration rights can stand. Green Connection’s Neville van Rooy says seismic surveying has major environmental effects:

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