{"id":10838,"date":"2012-05-29T22:16:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/s-africas-telescope-success-may-threaten-gas-plans\/"},"modified":"2012-05-29T22:16:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:16:18","slug":"s-africas-telescope-success-may-threaten-gas-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-telescope-success-may-threaten-gas-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s telescope success may threaten gas plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa won rights to host bulk of radio telescope<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Plan involves sensitive receptors in Northern Cape<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Same area has gas reserves<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* S. Africa has 485 trillion cubic feet of shale gas -US<br \/>\ndata<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, May 29 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s winning the<br \/>\nrights to host the bulk of the world&#8217;s biggest radio telescope<br \/>\nlooks set to clash with plans to use the high-pressure pumping<br \/>\nmethod fracking, which can cause earth tremors, to extract gas<br \/>\nfrom its vast shale deposits.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week, South Africa won the rights to locate about 70<br \/>\npercent of the &#8220;Square Kilometre Array&#8221; (SKA), a $2 billion<br \/>\nproject capable of detecting signs of extraterrestrial life in<br \/>\nthe far reaches of the universe.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The project will bring the construction of more than a<br \/>\nthousand highly sensitive receptors spread across hundreds of<br \/>\nkilometres of arid terrain in the Northern Cape province.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The area is subject to an astronomy law that prohibits<br \/>\nactivity interfering with star gazing, which could include<br \/>\nhydraulic fracturing, or &#8220;fracking&#8221; &#8211; where drillers blast large<br \/>\namounts of sand and water laced with chemicals deep underground<br \/>\nto free natural gas and oil from shale deposits.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* South Africa won rights to host bulk of radio telescope * Plan involves sensitive receptors in Northern Cape * Same area has gas reserves * S. Africa has 485 trillion cubic feet of shale gas -US data By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, May 29 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s winning the rights to host the bulk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}