{"id":14375,"date":"2012-09-07T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T13:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-3-s-africa-lifts-moratorium-on-shale-gas-exploration\/"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T13:56:52","slug":"update-3-s-africa-lifts-moratorium-on-shale-gas-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-africa-lifts-moratorium-on-shale-gas-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.Africa lifts moratorium on shale gas exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Moratorium was in place since April 2011<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* SAfrica says study eased safety concerns<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Reserves seen among world&#8217;s biggest of shale gas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Exploitation seen as &#8220;game changer&#8221; for economy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Wendell Roelf<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN, Sept 7 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has lifted a<br \/>\nmoratorium on shale gas exploration in the Karoo region, where<br \/>\nthe extraction technique of &#8220;fracking&#8221; might help tap some of<br \/>\nthe world&#8217;s biggest reserves of the energy source and deliver a<br \/>\nbig boost to the local economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Collins Chabane, a minister in the President&#8217;s office , said<br \/>\nthe cabinet had decided to lift the moratorium, imposed in April<br \/>\nlast year, after a study eased safety concerns over the method<br \/>\nwhich has been highly criticised by environmentalists.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When (the results of the study) &#8230; came back, they<br \/>\nrecommended that it was clearly safe for us to have that<br \/>\nprogramme of exploration of shale gas,&#8221; Chabane told reporters<br \/>\non Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves pressurised<br \/>\nwater, chemicals and sand being pumped underground to release<br \/>\ngas trapped in rock formations. Some landowners and<br \/>\nenvironmentalists say the process can pollute water supplies.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Moratorium was in place since April 2011 * SAfrica says study eased safety concerns * Reserves seen among world&#8217;s biggest of shale gas * Exploitation seen as &#8220;game changer&#8221; for economy By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, Sept 7 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has lifted a moratorium on shale gas exploration in the Karoo region, [&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-14375","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\/14375","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=14375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}