{"id":14381,"date":"2012-09-07T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africa-lifts-moratorium-on-shale-gas-exploration\/"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T13:57:00","slug":"s-africa-lifts-moratorium-on-shale-gas-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-lifts-moratorium-on-shale-gas-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa lifts moratorium on shale gas exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN, Sept 7<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has lifted a<br \/>\nmoratorium on shale gas exploration in the country&#8217;s semi-arid<br \/>\nKaroo region, where the extraction technique of &#8220;fracking&#8221; might<br \/>\nbe deployed, minister in the presidency Collins Chabane said on<br \/>\nFriday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cabinet endorsed a recommendation of the report on the<br \/>\nlifting of the afore-stated moratorium,&#8221; Chabane told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The cabinet imposed the moratorium in April of last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Wendel Roelf; Writing by Olivia Kumwenda; Editing<br \/>\nby Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, Sept 7 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has lifted a moratorium on shale gas exploration in the country&#8217;s semi-arid Karoo region, where the extraction technique of &#8220;fracking&#8221; might be deployed, minister in the presidency Collins Chabane said on Friday. &#8220;Cabinet endorsed a recommendation of the report on the lifting of the afore-stated moratorium,&#8221; Chabane [&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-14381","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\/14381","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=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}