Shale Gas - South Africa budget Speeches, page-4

Looks like the greenies are stirring up trouble over in SA - But chances of the government meeting the group’s demands appear slim.

Cape Town - It’s high noon for fracking, with anti-fracking lobby group Treasure the Karoo Action Group calling on President Jacob Zuma to place an immediate moratorium on this controversial shale-gas extraction method or face legal action.
The group, supported by AfriForum (the civil rights group linked to trade union Solidarity), has told the president that if the government takes longer than 30 days to deal “substantively” with issues raised in its 18-page letter sent on Monday, it reserves its rights “to steps less co-operative and non-confrontational than this letter”.
In particular, it’s “poised” for liti-gation that will be “enormously expensive and embarrassing” for the government, and it also reserves the right to approach Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, the group says.

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/scienc...king-or-we-go-to-court-1.1724039#.U9BCArE08Z8
http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Zuma-must-halt-fracking-in-Karoo-AfriForum-20140722