On South Africa's breathtaking Wild Coast, grass-roots resistance is growing against Shell, as it seeks to conduct seismic tests to map the area’s geology
A giant puppet of a snoek, a type of local mackerel, is displayed in Cape Town as hundreds of people take part in a protest Shell’s plans to conduct underwater seismic surveys along the east coast of South Africa in December 2021.
Shell and the South African government have said that oil or gas production would bolster the country’s energy security and economic development, including local job opportunities.“This is the least developed province,” Gwede Mantashe, a longtime ANC stalwart who is now the country’s energy minister, said in a phone interview. “If we are too liberal about development, investors won’t wait, and we will remain poor.
“This ocean is our life, so it is nothing less than that which Shell would destroy,” said Zingisa Ludude, 62, who protested the blasting by writing slogans in the sand along the beach where she harvests mussels for a living. “Everything we need comes from the ocean.” The fight in South Africa echoes a larger debate about how fossil fuel companies should reduce and eventually eliminate their carbon emissions — and the implications for regions that have benefited from drilling. Climate activists argue the companies can still make plenty of money without drilling for new resources.
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