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December 6, 2021

South African Activists, Community Members Protest Shell Oil Exploration on Pristine Coastline
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In South Africa, about 1,000 people took to a beach near Port Edward
Sunday, protesting plans by Royal Dutch Shell to do seismic oil
exploration in the eastern seaboard's Wild Coast, which
environmentalists say will threaten pristine wildlife refuges. The
action took place after a South African court on Friday rejected an
application filed by several advocates, including local fishermen and
Greenpeace Africa, to stop the exploration of petroleum systems in the
region. This is a fisherman at Sunday's protest.

Sicelo Dlamini: "I don't think this is helping the economy but just
bringing destruction. Here we can swim and do other things but if Shell
is coming here I don't think we'll ever access this place."



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