The Boegoeberg Blues: A Small Nama Tribe Holds the Key to the Orange Oil Basin’s Future

The Boegoeberg Blues: A small Nama tribe holds the key to the Orange Oil Basin’s future

A landmark 2003 ruling by the ConCourt in favour of the Richtersveld community has made the still-impoverished Nama people the gate-keepers of the government’s ambitious plans to turn the Northern Cape into an energy and mining hub. Investigation and photos by John Grobler Boegoeberg, located about 10km south of Alexander Bay and site of the Richtersveld community’s ancestral graveyard. It is also the site for a planned industrial mega-park and …

South Africa: Group frowns at Shell's Northern Cape oil exploration project - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy

Climate awareness, change and conservation organisation, The Green Connection, has expressed concern over the recent approval of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Shell’s proposed Northern Cape Ultra Deep (NCUD) oil and gas exploration project in South Africa. The approval, according to the organisation, comes despite repeated objections raised by coastal communities and civil society, including detailed submissions by The Green Conn…