CAPE TOWN, Sept 7 (Reuters) – South Africa has lifted a
moratorium on shale gas exploration in the country’s semi-arid
Karoo region, where the extraction technique of “fracking” might
be deployed, minister in the presidency Collins Chabane said on
Friday.
“Cabinet endorsed a recommendation of the report on the
lifting of the afore-stated moratorium,” Chabane told reporters.
The cabinet imposed the moratorium in April of last year.
(Reporting by Wendel Roelf; Writing by Olivia Kumwenda; Editing
by Jon Herskovitz)
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