{"id":203,"date":"2016-02-22T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2018-12-03T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:30:23","slug":"environmental","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/resources\/environmental\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obviously, drilling and the infrastructure of roads and pipelines around wells will detrimentally affect the life above and below ground.\u00a0 Many of the areas where licences have been granted fall within the Maputoland-Pondoland-Albany Centre of Endemism – one of 34 areas of high biodiversity, receiving particular conservation attention, around the world.<\/p>\n

Our rolling hills, grasslands and wetland landscapes\u00a0could be transformed into\u00a0a web of wells, tracks, wastewater ponds, pumps and pipeline infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Besides the destruction which takes place on the ground, there can be intensive air pollution from drilling and flaring and from gases that leak from fracked wells after they are closed. Large numbers of trucks are needed to build and service the wells and to remove the gas, will create dust, air and noise pollution in previously peaceful rural areas.<\/p>\n

South Africa is a water scarce country. Fracking is likely to have a serious impact on the water catchments in all the areas where it takes place.<\/p>\n

Water used in the fracking process is mixed with a cocktail of chemicals. Some are known to persist in the environment, accumulating in food chains posing risks to human health and ecosystems. Pollution and contamination of water will have wide ranging impacts on agriculture, biodiversity\u00a0and human livelihoods.<\/p>\n

“Climate Change is the centre of all \u2013 more emissions will result in more impacts to mitigate and adapt to.\u00a0 This cost to society and the fiscus is too high to bear currently, without the ever-tightening grip from the backlash of nature. \u00a0Without functioning ecosystems to sequester carbon (grasslands, forests) and to provide us with free goods and services (water, pollution filtering, air, soil to grow our food and raise our stock, temperature modulation, flood attenuation, new diseases to deal with) we will not be able to survive the onslaught that is to come.”<\/em> Judy Bell, Environmental Consultant<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting resources:<\/p>\n

groundWork Special Report – Fracking Frenzy <\/a><\/p>\n

groundWork Special Report on Shale Gas <\/a><\/p>\n

Centre for Environmental Rights – MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN SOUTH AFRICA<\/a><\/p>\n

Centre for Environmental Rights – Community Casebook on Mining and Environment<\/a><\/p>\n

Centre for Environmental Rights – Mining and your Community<\/a><\/p>\n

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Obviously, drilling and the infrastructure of roads and pipelines around wells will detrimentally affect the life above and below ground.\u00a0 Many of the areas where licences have been granted fall within the Maputoland-Pondoland-Albany Centre of Endemism – one of 34<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":216,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/1093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreesa.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}